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New-York tribune., 1906-05-27
NOTES OF SOCIETY IN WASHINGTON.
[From The rrtrun. Bureau

From The Tribune Bureau.I
Washington. May Ex-senator and Mrs. Stephen
B. Elkins entertained dinner tonight the Gaek-
war OF Baroda and his wife. the Marahanee. and
shrinat Sampatroo Gaekwar. the brother OF the
prince In the party invited 70 meet them were
Senator and Mrs. Foraker. Representative and
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, Mr.. and Mrs. John r
Mclean and about twenty others.
Commander H NJ Hodges, recently detached
from the Photographs Office of the navy. has
gone with Mrs. Hodges for a visit to his family
in Illinois, They will sail for Europe in July. and
will travel for soma months.
Senator Beveridge has arranged to sail from New
York the Oceanic on June 20. TO spend the sum-
ner abroad On the ship will be Senator and
Mrs. Knox and their younger son. Philander C.
Knox 1r, with Mrs. Knox's niece. Miss Singer. of
P1ttsburg Hugh Knox Will meet them in London
or Paris, where they Will spend July. and will ac-
company them on automobile trips through Europe.
Mrs. Lewis Ford Butt. OF Virginia, is the guest
OF her brother and mother, Captain A W. Butt and
Mrs. Butt at the Dupont. in this city.
Mrs Charles W. Fairbanks. Mrs. ]. Franklin
Bell. Mrs Converse. Miss Hagner. Mrs. Bromwen.
Mrs Henry C. Perkins and Mrs. Boardman on
the reception committee for the large lawn fete TO
be given at the home Of ex-senator and Mrs Hen
derson. on Thursday evening. Mrs Taft. Mrs.
Pinchot. Mrs Du Bois. Mrs Oliver and Mrs. Loring
are the committee OF general affairs. while Cen
eral Sanger. assisted by Colonel Bromwell. Major
McCawley and other we'll known men. will have
general management Of the grounds The Marine
and Fort Myer bands will furnish music for the
dancing. which will be on the floor Of the stone
barn and the first floor OF the house Miss Wet
more and Miss Mcmillan have agreed TO furnish
all the refreshments free OF charge. thus leaving
the proceeds of the fete intact for the benefit OF
the chiIdrens public Fairgrounds.
Mrs Charles S BromweU. accompanied by her
children. will leave Washington early in June for
Charlevoix, Mich. where she will spend the
mer.
New-York tribune., 1906-05-27
THE RAGDAD RAILWAY.

The precise bearing of the German state
ment concerning the Anglo Russian agreement
in Persia and the Bagdad Railway is not i'm
mediately apparent. Asia Minor and Mesopo-
tamia are not Persia. The railroad which Ger
many is building from the BoSporus and the
Egean to the head of the Persian Gulf is no
where, understand it, to cross the Per
sian frontier or to traverse other than Turk
ish territory. 1t is difficult to see therefore,
IN what respect a compact between Great Brit
ain and Russia for the delimitation of their
spheres Of influence in Persia, Afghanistan
and Tibet threatens to dispose Of the railway"
or TO affect it in any way. Upon the face of
it. the only explanation Of the utterance would
seem TO be either that the Anglo Russian com
pact contemplateS something far more than the
world has been informed of, or that the Ger
man railway syndicate, to use homely phrase,
is crying before it is hurt and before there is
any danger Of its being hurt
So far as we can perceive, the Bagdad Rail
way is on a sound basis and is secure from
Interference, as its history indicates. It was
about ten years ago that a German syndicate
purchased the little British railroad running
from Scutari to Ismid beyond rebuilt it
and extended it to Angora. Then the scheme
arose fostered and promoted by the German
Emperor's Levantine travels, of constructing
trunk line from the Bosporus to the Persian
Gulf Years before there had been British pro-
posals for a railroad across Asiatic Turkey.
but they had come to naught for various rea-
sons-chiefy because the road was TO run from
Smyrna or from some point on the Syrian coast.
and the Sultan would not countenance anv
plan that did not include Constantinople. and
because the British idea was simply to provide
through route to India, which did not appeaI
at all TO the Sultan, who wanted the resources
OF Mesopotamia developed, or to prudent Brit
ons, VINO doubted whether such q route could
ever compete with the Suez Canal The Ger
mans planned better. They started the road
Irom the Bosporus, and designed It primarily
ior the development Of Asia Minor. Northern
eyria ana Mesopotamia, and thus secured the
FAVOR of the Sultan and the confidence or In.
Vestors. N -
II was at the beginning OF 1902 that tha CON.
cesslon was secured from the Sultan Ire ta,,ns
pracucally provide for government oiorsnt.a
Dy the Porte of per cent on the cost OF con.
suucuoh ana grant to the company of all
mineral rights for twenty kilometres ON each
side or the line. AS the line is being corafuIIy
| run through the richest mineral regions of ,h
! empire, the value of this latter provision is
| apparent a little later number of T1rarch
| capitalists became interested In the schema ana
II was probably partly on that account that NJ
j 10uSleS iva Xea1A ARa planned ana sxscv.ed
New-York tribune., 1906-05-27
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.
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WASHINGTON. May 6-The French Ambassador
and Nine Jusserand gave a farewell dinner at the
embassy tonight for the naval attache and Wis
countess de Faramond who will sail for Europe
June 2S on the French liner Provost. The viscount
will probably go on duty. The guests to bid
them good-by were the German Ambassador and
Baroness Won SternhOvg Senator and Mrs. Lodge,
Assistant Secretary and Mrs. Newberry, Walter
Beaupre Townley. eSanselor Of the British EN-
bassy; the Minister frvm the Netherlands and Nine.
van Swinderen. Miss Nicholas Fish. Lieutenant
Commander Raomi T1niquichi. naval attache OF
| the Japanese Embassy; Prince KoudachefH. OF the
Russian Embassy staff; Mrs. Langham. Miss Lang
ham. the counselor OF the French Embassy and
Nine. des Portes de la Fosse. Mile. des Portes de
La Fosse and Captain Fournier. The viscount and
yiscountess will leave Washington on Monday and
remain at the home that the German Ambassador
| and Baroness Sternberg have leased for the
| summer at Beverly Farms until they go 10 New
York for sailing
The German Ambassador and Baroness Won Stern
berg VIII leave Washington on Friday OF next week
for Beverly Farms. where they are to spend the
summer.
Mrs. Langham and Miss Langham. mother and
sister Of the baroness will spend the summer with
them there
The Austrian Ambassador and Baroness Hengel-
n1uller Will leave Washington on Thursday for
New York. They will go to Pittsburg on June to
attend the wedding OF Baron Riedel Won Reidenau
and Miss Magee. and from there will go TO Bar
Harbor for the early part of the summer.
Robert Centaro attache OF the italian Embassy,
YHfsreturn 10 Italy about June 2, after service
hetesqf over year. The embassy for the summer
will be either Bar Harbor Manchester-by-the-
Sea. the staff leaving here about the middle OF
June.
The Brazilian Ambassador and the Swiss Min
ister accompanied by Colonel Pedernaras, military
attache Of the Brazilian Embassy returned TO
Washington yesterday from months visit to the
Pacific Coast
New-York tribune., 1906-05-27
JAPAN IN MANCHURIA

1t is credibly reported that the Japanese gov
ernment has decided to pursue in Manchuria,
as sequence to the late war, a policy which
Will respect the sovereignty OF China, which
Will honestly keep an open door for all nations
on equal terms, which will replace military rule
with civil rule at the earliest possible date, and
which will, so far as possible, prevent or dis
courage the growth of anti-foregn sentiment In
other parts of the Chinese Empire.
If Japan does pursue such policy, as we
fully expect, she will be fulfilling in the amplest
manner, in letter and in spirit, the formal
pledges and the informal intimations and sug-
gestions which she made before the war; she will
be vindicating in the most complete manner the
professions and the grounds upon which she
accepted Russia's challenge to mortal combat
and she will be doing In almost every respect
the exact opposite of that which Russia was
doing before the war and intended to do perma-
nently.
In adopting this course Japan will be doing
precisely what every disinterested and every
fair minded nation in the world desires to have
done. She will be doing what the peaceful and
friendly interests Of the commercial powers re-
quire to be done. And she will, In particular,
be practically establishing the principles Of ter
ritorial integrity and the open door for which
the United States has consistently contended
and to which, under the lead of John Hay, this
country sought the adherence of all the powers.
New-York tribune., 1906-05-27
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
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from The Tribune Burean-I .
Washington May 26.-President RooseVeie :. -,
tanned his hfghness the Gaekwar or BarouA f
brother at luncheon to-day. The other sue"1
the luncheon included Mr.. Townley, chars o.
faires of the British Embassy. and Secretaries i''
and Taft.
An important conference over tne be'eI'uso
stock yards inspection amendment was hela d. 'Iio
White House to-day between the Presioeh1 anu
Senator Cuuou, Speaker Cannon and fSspl
tives Lorimer and Madden Later IN the DAY the
President discussed the same matter with senator
Beveridge the author OF the measure, and j. b.
REYNOLDS who recently made an Investigation or
the Chicago stockyards with Labor Commissioner
NenL
Among the other callers at the White House were
Senators Flint and Proctor, Postmaster General
Cortelyou and Representatives Adams. slemp and
Allen.
Members of the 18th New Jersey Volunteers As
sociation who passing through Washington
from a visit to the battleheids of the Civil War.
also received by the President, were the
members of the Merchant Travellers Protective
Association which has been in session IN this city
Mrs Roosevelt will accompany the President on
his trip TO Norfolk Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs Clifford Richardson. of New York,
who came to Washington on Wednesday as the
guests of the President and Mrs. Roosevelt. will
remain here over Sunday, returning TO New York
on Monday morning
New-York tribune., 1906-05-27
THE zUNI AND THELR KryspEv

Not only andquarians, but many well informed
persons besides, will be glad TO know that the
Senate Committee on Public Lands has IA
Vorably reported bill designed to preserve the
remaining traces Of a civilization which existed
In the southwest part Of the United States be-
fore the Spaniards arrived there. These are
found mainly in Arizona and New Mexico but
TO some extent In Utah and Colorado as we'll
They consist of cliff dwellings, individual and
communal abodes constructed of clay, watch
towers, shrines and burial mounds, containing
IN addition TO the bones Of the dead many OBJ
jects possessing religious and social Significance
Two classes of persons have been in the habit
OF examining the ruined villages Of those pre-
historic residents Of the country. One Includes
representatives of societies or museums devoted
TO chronological and archaeological research Mr..
Frank 81. Gushing, who has written so entertain
ingly about the pottery and other products of
the Zuni Indians; DR.. ]. Walter Fewkes. of Chi
cago, and DR.. f. W. Hodge, of the Smithsonian
Institution, are typical members of this first
group. The other consists Of persons acting on
individual impulse and responsibility and not
infrequently animated by a desire to procure
cur1oslueS for their own private collections or
to sell them If a market can be found. In gen
eral these visitors behave like pirates obtaining
valuable relics especially from the tombs) by
stealth, and thus depr1ving those localities of
material on which honest scientific study might
properly be based. National legislation which
would sternly discourage such practices and
Leave the field free for honest and legitimate In
vestigation has long appeared desirable. 1t has
been slow in coming, but there are gratifying
signs that it may not be deferred until there is
no longer any need.
Already the Department of the Interior has
recognized the Importance of interposition. In
a few instances monuments which should be
protected lie within the boundaries Of forest re-
serves or of Indian reservations To the pres
ent custodians of these tracts instructions have
been issued with view to detecting and exclud.
ing intruders. Moreover, one or two districts
which are particularly rich In historical mate
rial have been withdrawn from sale either tenn
porarily or permanently. The bill introduced by
Mr.. Patterson and now favorably reported to
the Senate, however, authorizes more exten-
sive and effective supervision No one is to he
permitted to excavate without license in such
regions as the department takes under its care
and each violation of the law is punishable with
a fire of $500 So great are the benefits to be
derived from the measure and SO free is 1t from
any obvious objection that Congress may with
an easy conscience, give it prompt approval
New-York tribune., 1906-05-27

ness, unless under the redeemfng compulslon or
some external and superior power. In the same
category were Bosnia, Herzegovina, Bulgaria.
Servia and the Macedonian vilayets, and In 1t
some Of them still remain We do not know
that the Danubian princfpalites were more
hopeful than the others. Traces of Thracian,
Dacian, Roman, Goth, Hun, Lombard, Bulgar,
Ungri Wallach and Tartar made what seemed
to some a hopeless heterogeneity
But those principalities have become homo
geneous kingdom and nation, with government
as stable and worthy of respect as any on
the continent of Europe, and the suggestion In
evitably arises that if they have been able to
do So the other despised countries there may do
the same. Bosnia and Herzegovina, indeed
have been redeemed through alien control. Ser
via and Bulgaria have set themselves to work
ing out their own salvation much as Rumania
did, and, though they have had some awful
stumblings and blunderings and worse we must
believe they are on the whole making progress
and will in time reach the goal; and In the
fulness of time Macedonia, too, will do the
same. In the achievement of one there is
promise for all; and that rule applies equally
to Southeastern Europe and to Central and
South America.
New-York tribune., 1906-05-27
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CoNGRESS.-The Senate was not in session.
g. House: Speeches on many sub1ects WEI WEI
made in the discussion on the Dlploinaue an0
Consular Appropriation bill
EOREIGN-The Russian lower house de-
naanded the creation OF a responsible MINISTRY,
and Indignantly rejected the governments repLy
10 parliarnent's demands; adVices from the cap
ital say that conflict appears to be lneVltaple-
- The strike which began at ODESSA is eA-
tending to all the Black Sea ports: the sltuaton
st Odessa IS critical; workrnen IN t4I udaeS
threaten TO Join the movement. the ponce are
making many arrests. and two thousand troops
occupy the harbor district - SanIo DoLAillsS S
rebels led by Jinenes. attacked Guayuoin anu
killed a general; the parusans OF Moraiss &c
reported to be acting with the insurgents
Great crowds cheered Princess Ena or BatIen-
berg and King Alfonso who drove 70 NIaoFIu Na
from the palace; thousands OF WofhIles . "a .
decorating the city. - The drowning OF four
troopers through the capsizing OF lerrypoat
1-es renorted from Manila. - Herr Won Justh
was elected president Of the lower mouse OF tIle
Hungarian parliament at Budapest =. AZ N
rasssdor Wright was received at Toxic by the
tT-,Teror Of Jaaan The International
15osfej Congress at Rome adjourned after signing
TIE treaties previously agreed on
0ONrSTIC- Representatives In washington
If the meat and packing interests gave evidences
of manic at the proposed law foT meat insp
but II was thought that their fear OF tlls pupIi-
cation OF the report on these industries, t "niCH
is now in the Presidents hands, would prevent
their making any open fight against the meas
ure - Mrs. r Fulton Cutting was seriously
injured in an automobile accident while on her
Haven. == A New York Central express train
was wrecked at Hoffmans, n. Y the hshplates
having been tampered with; Italians on strlke
have marched by the scene OF the wreck
CTTY.-Stocks were heavy. - Twelve per
sons were injured seven severely, in fire which
destroyed the entire block between oath and 10Th
streets and Tenth and Eleventh avenues. -
IT was though that special counsel for the New
York Life might now sue George w. Perkins
for the recovery Of the 4S,702 90 campaign con-
tribution. == The Consolidated Gas Com
pany filed af1dayits declaring that 1t could not
afford TO manufacture Illuminating gas for so
cents a thousand feet. - Burglars entered
the home Of Senator Dryden in Newark, picking
their way through a network Of alarm wires,
after which they broke open safe - The
examination into the sanity Of Josephine Terra
nova was continued, despite the objection Of her
counsel. - man and his wife were arrested
on the charge of assaulting the conductor OF a
Third surface car. following a quarrel
over transfers. - 1t was announced that the
new Boston-New York turbine steamships had
been named Yale and Harvard.
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
Rain and cooler. The temperature yesterday:
Highest, 50 degrees; lowest, g.
New-York tribune., 1906-05-27

the unifcation and conversion of the Turkish
debt, thus enabling the Porte more surely to
fulfil its part of the bargain. 1t Will be re-
called, too, that in the summer of 1908 the Ger
man syndicate, feeling that British cooperation
would be decidedly helpful, proposed that the
capital of the road should be German, French
and British, the first named being the largest
share Mr.. Balfour for a time advocated this
arrangement in the House Of Commons, but
in the face Of the strong anti-German senti-
ment then prevailing presently dropped it, and
since then little attention has been paid to the
matter in England.
1t is realized however that the Germans are
going right on with the great work, and that
the plan has been much elaborated, so to
provide for connection at Damascus with the
Hedjaz Railway, which is to run from Damas-
Gus to Medina and Mecca with a branch to
Akabah. Thus Turkey In Asia viii be trav-
ersed from north to south and from west to
east by vast railway system, leading from the
Black Sea, the Sea of Marmora, the Egean
and the Gulf of Iskanderoon on the one hand,
to the Gulf of Akabah, the Red Sea and the
Persian Gulf on the other Its value for the
development OF the resources Of the empire and
for strengthening imperial authority in Arabia
and other provinces will be incalculablo and
that it will be a source of vast profits to its
builders is apparently certain. As it's outlet
upon the Persian Gulf will be a purely COM
mercial one, it does not seem to involve any
menace to British political interests in the
East, and there appears to be no reason why
the integrity of the project should be called
into question through any readjustment of Brit
ish and Russian interests in other Asiatic coun
tries
New-York tribune., 1906-05-27
RUMANIA, AND OTHERS.

The double anniversary which Rumania has
just celebrated is Of more than local significance
The fortieth anniversary of King Charles's ac-
we'll up among the senior sovereigns of the
world, albeit the first fifteen years of his reign
were not as an independent king, but as a semi
tributary prince. Only four sovereigns In Eu-
rope, and only five IN the world, have been on
the throne longer than he, and even If we omit
the fifteen years of the mere principality. the
quarter century of sovereign kingship surpasses
the reigns, thus far, of most of the important
monarchs of the world. The twenty-fifth ami
versary of Rumanian independence is an inter-
esting reminder too, of the development of what
we used to know as the Danubian principalities
of MOldavia and Wallachia into what may not
without justice be classed as one Of the great
powers of Europe. We must remember that II
was the Heretofore Gespised Rumanian army
which saved the Russians from fatal disaster
at the hands OF the mighty Osman at Plevna.
and that to-day, as a barrier against that very
Russia which was formerly Rumania's ally.
Bucharest has become the most strongly fortified
city i'll the world
More interesting and more significant than
all else, however is it TO note the general de-
veopment of that country In the arts OF govern
ment and civilization. We must remember that
Moldavia and Wallacha with their fragments
of forgotten peoples" were once among those
provinces Of southeastern Europe which were
regarded as some now affect TO regard the re-
publics of Latin America-as countries essen.
tally Incapable of good self-goyernment and
- 0eoee1axty doomed to Disorder end vrctrhed
New-York tribune., 1906-05-27
PRINTING REFoRus AND OTHERS,

The two printing reform bills passed by Con
gress at this session are already bearing fruit
These measures aimed at enforcing in the gov
ernments printing ventures the ordinary laws Of
supply and demand They recognized that the
readers of government documents were governed
by the same tastes and motives as the readers of
other published matter and that it was folly
10 assume that each piece of official literature
has exactly the same circulating value as every
other piece. Under q custom which had become
binding Congress for years authorized the
printing Of a fixed number of all documents
This was 4 maximum, rather than q mini
mum, edition. for IL included enough copies TO
furnish each Senator and Representative with
the full number 10 which he was legally entitled.
But IN actual practice il often appeared that
less than 10 per cent Of the members of the two
houses cared 10 draw out their full allotments
anu a great many members made no requisitions
al all. Hundreds Of thousands Of volumes
therefore, accumulated, and the government was
compelled 10 rent stlbles and cellars in which TO
store its surplus literature
Under the new system only enough copies of
any document are 10 be printed TO supply current
demands Each Congressman may apply for his
Iui quota, as before and when a first edition
Is exhausted second is to be ordered But
comparatively few publications are expected
10 run into a second edition. The saving ef
fected by this restriction is enormous. For in
stance the first issues of certain of the bulkier
ana more costly publications for 1906 have
been practically cut in two. Fifteen thousand
copies of the report of the Bureau of Animal
Industry Of the Department of Agriculture are
10 be printed, instead of 1900; 5000 copies Of
lhe reports of the Department OF Labor instead
OF 1900 5000 copies of the statistical abstract
instead of 5000, and $4,000 copies Of the
Year Book Of Agriculture, instead of 100000
Seventy thousand volumes will also be saved In
bound Congressional Records" Altogether the
governments printing bill will be cut this year
S1JO.oOO below last years figure.
The ease with which this saving was made is
significant 1t proves that Congress can lon
on millions OF dollars of waste in government
work II the two houses set intelligently to worl,
10 economic. The federal civil service has
been expanding steadily for the last twenty
years. But the expansion has taken place piece
meal New offices have been created by the thou-
sand, but there has been no general reorganiza.
uon OF the system as q whole. The result hos
been that all sorts OF inequalities and anomalies
exist Work is paid for according to different
standards In different departments and no hxa0
measure of c.iency can be applied The uouso
OF Representatives is entitled 10 great credit fo
breaking the ground this year for an eouaIiza
ron Of salaries and conditions, and tie Keen
sznzrdssio1 appointed hy Prssident Ross4sn
New-York tribune., 1906-05-27

has likewise brought TO light many lax and
illogical methods In administration Abuses
which have been ignored for years are now being
attacked, and in part corrected. But the neces-
sary reforms cannot be accomplished at one ses-
sion or two sessions 1t may take five years or ten
years to put the government service on modern
business basis. But an encouraging start has
been made, and we shall expect to see each and
every department overhauled in time rs thor
oughly as Congress has recently overhauled the
methods in vogue in the Government Printing
Office