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In addition to the Franklin addresses
which will be made at Philadelphia on
Thursday and Friday Of this week there is
a stiff programme of scientific topics to be
discussed by the American Philosophical
Society on Wednesday, the opening day OF
its session.
The symposium opens with a dissertation
on -Heredity and Variation, Logical and
Biological" Then follows an address "On
a Possible Reversal of the Deep Sea Circu-
lation and It's Elects on Geological Gil
mates" with The Statistical Method in
Chemical Geology for a chaser.
After considering The Figure and Sta
bility of a Liquid Satellite" the learned
delegates will settle the moot question,
Was LEWIS EVANS or BENJAMIN FRANK
LIN the first TO Recognize That Northeast
Storms Come From the Southwest" Sur
mounting this Pelion will be an Ossa: Rep
eution and Variation In Poetic Structure"
The richness of the menu is completed
with these dishes, in which the ingredient
Of wit is less noticeable than that of reason:
"The Herodotean Prototype Of ESTHER n
SCHEHEREzADE'; AN international South
ern observatory; THE Present Position Of
the Problem Concerning the First Principles
of Scientific Theory; Note on a Collection
of Fossil Mammals from NATAL
The titles alone are enough to make a
plain, everyday head hum, and the changes
Of subject are more sudden and ~bewildering
than those Of the dictionary itself.
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mo PRINTING JOB F1NIsHEn
j. I'd. Lyon Company Completes LON
Comics or Insurance Report on Tlms

ALBANY, April 16,-For once a contrar,
to do printing for the State has been com,
pleted on time-in fact, an hour ahead a,
time. The j. B. Lyon Printing COMPANY
to-day notified Senator Armstrong, chair.
man of the insurance investigating con.
mittee, that the work of printing the renor,
and testimony of that committee was An.
ished.
The question of the printing Of the tes,i.
mony and the report OF the committee las,
winter occupied the serious attention n
the committee after it had finished the tai.
ing Of testimony. The BRANDON PRINTING
Company, which had the State PRINTING
contract, was charged with holding bacb
the printed matter from the State for IN.
purpose Of making profit from private sale,
As a result the Legislature passed a hin
authorizing the committee to have SON
sets Of the testimony and report printed
by some other company. The j. b. Lyon
company got the contract, the cost to h
S2.82 a set for seven volumes to the Stat.
and IS for the same set to the public.
The contract was awarded on the stipn.
lation that the work would be completed
at noon to-day, or In just about eight dayS
The Lyon company promised to have tbt
of whistles and ringing Of bells in the entirss
Lyon plant at IL O'clock this morning Ia
public was apprised that the work had been
completed.
It was one Of the biggest tasks ever IN.
dertaken by a printer. The copy con.
sisted Of 10000 pages, or 10 100000 ems
In order to have the work completed on time
the plant was run night and day. THREE
shifts Of twenty-three machines were mi
to work and the plant was run yesterday
Sunday. This Ia considered to be one Of
the most remarkable feats in printing. Other
bidders who had been seeking the WORK
had asked for higher prices for a much
longer period in which to complete tn.
xr-~lr
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Arc Stock Exchange Methods the Cause
OF Tlghtness in Moneys

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: In the
discussion of the causes for the stringency
in the Wall Street money market II has been
ascribed mainly to the peoullarities Of our
banking system and its relation to the
Government.
No doubt these are important factors. but
the writer ventures to assert, after many
years Of study Of the subject. that the prin-
cipal cause OF the trouble Is the manner OF
doing business in the Stock Exchange. II
no change In that Is made the trouble will
become chronic III not so already, with occa-
sional violent outbursts calling for extraordi-
nary measures TO prevent financial disaster.
The plain fact is that the stock business
Is the only one in existence in which a dealer
may be called upon to pay the total amount
Of his indebtedness Tor at least that part
which he has not protected by time loans,
usually three-Quartersl on any day at | o'clock,
and In default Of payment by 3 be declared
insolvent, even though he nay have securi-
ties and properties far in excess of the amount
called for.
Further, the New York Stock Exchange is
the only one of international Importance in
the world which does business in this manner.
These two statements OF fact define the
cause of the trouble. The remedy is simple
and complete, An application Of It was
made twenty years ago and its feasibility
was completely demonstrated 1t was dis
contihued only because its use by the mem
bers was optional. That IS no argument
against it. as it is we'll known by every one
conversant with the circumstances that the
use Of the present system of clearance would
have been discontinued within a year nfter
its establishment if its use had not been made
compulsory.
The writer is familiar with every objection
that may be made to this proposition and
knows that all can be fully answered.
NEW YORK, April IS. ONE WHO KNOWS.
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TO CHEAPEN STREET OPENING
Mayor Likely TO Approve the Hill II 1t d
q Cruel One.

Mayor Mcclellan gave a public hearing
yesterday on the bill designed to essen ths
cost of street opening proceedings and to
prevent delays by giving the property
owners an opportunity to deal directly
with the city after the Corporation Counse
has fixed a price that the city will pay
The price, under the existing law, is now
determined by condemnation commissions
1t was pointed out at yesterdays hearing
by speakers who favored the bill that there
are now about $50 of these commissions
with 1850 members. Every time a com.
mission meets a commissioner gets a SO
fee. 1t is human to hold as many meetings
as possible. For the expenses Of thes
commissions 1925 900 was spent last year,
or nearly 10 per cent. Of the total amount
of awards. Said ex-Congressman Edward
NJ. Bassett of Brooklyn:
This state of things has risen 10 the
proportions OF a great scandal, and if the
business continues there Is likely 10 he an
explosion. Immense costs in these pro,
ceedings are piling up, and there should
be a remedy. Commissioners are supposed
to remain in session for from two to for
hours, but frequently they merely meet
Some half a dozen lawyers opposed tl
bill. Their principal contention was that
it deprived the property owner Of an ar
peal. One Of them, John c.. SHAY main
tanned that the bill vas unconstitutiona
The Mayor interrupted with the query
Because it inflicts cruel and unusual
punishment on the assessment lawyers
1t is Understood that the Mayor will ap
prove the bill.
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Tips From the Peace Society.

The President may well regard as
superfuous the request of the American
Peace Society that his instructions to
the United States delegates to the Pan
American Conference shall be such as
"to convince the Central and South
American countries that the United
States has no intention whatever, either
in upholding the Monroe Doctrine or
in any other Of its policies, of trespassing
upon the rights of the other American
republics IS independent and sovereign
States, but wishes only to promote in
every possible way their highest indie
pendent acknowledgment" Surely the
President was explicit enough when he
dealt with this subject in his message
to Congress last December. But per-
maps the Peace Society feads- dhly'fs
own documents and preserves only the
speeches made by it's own members and
c~atalogued by Secretary BENJAMIN F..
TRUEBLOoD.
If the members should examine the
message they would learn that the Presi-
dent referred to the distrust of "some
South American countries" about the
policy OF the United States; and that,
after recognizing certain republics as
%guarantors of the Monroe Doctrine and
as being on "a basis Of entire equality"
with this country, he said. 1T must be
understood that under no circumstances
will the United States use the Monroe
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One swallow doesn't make a summer-or
a decent ~drink-and one instance doesn't
constitute a scientific rule; but an occur
renee reported from Colorado lays the foun-
dation for determination Of the exact ratio
between drink and death.
An avalanche blocking a tunnel delayed
traffic at Silverton, Col, for more than a
month. The first train through was a com
bination freight and passenger, and the
first freight unloaded was ten barrels Of
whiskey and six collins. Is not this sta
tistical material for the Drys-a death to
every one and t%wo-thirds barrels2
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PEDIGREE OF RATE FIXING.
Traced Back as Far as the Labor Reform
Convention OF 1877,

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: In his
recent caustic address at Kansas City Repre-
sentative Charles A.. Towne declared that Mr..
Roosevelt "hlched his rate legislation pro-
gramme from "a national Democratic plat
FORM" | suppos that Mr.. Towne refers to the
platform Of 1890, where a very similar PROPOSE
ton certainly does appear; but let us trace the
paternity OF this programme further and see
where the Democrats got it, without going
back TO those days of the middle OF the last
century when the Democratic party volubly
but vaguely declared it's resistance TO AL
monopolies and exclusive legislation for the
benefit Of the few at the expense of the many"
turn to the platform devised Mt Columbus.
Ohio. in 1872, by the Labor Reform Convention.
We there find this.
That II is the duty OF the Government to exercise
It's power over railroads and telegraph corporations,
that they shall not In any case be privileged TO exact
such rates OF freight transportation, or charges
by whatever name as may bear unduly or u~nequally
upon the producer or consumer.
As this message TO an oppressed and suf-
fering community was promulgated when
Mr., Towne was q schoolboy in u little town
in Michigan. he may be pardoned for forget
ting its existence; but he had attained his
majority when, II 1850, the %Greenback party
nominated Mr.. Weaver on a platform which
Included this declaration:
II is the duty OF Congress to regulate interstate
commerce. All lines OF communication and trans
portatlon should be brought under such legislative
control as shall secure moderate. fair and uniform
rates for passenger and freight trafic.
For all that ] know to the contrary. Mr..
Towno may have voted for BENJAMIN F. Butler
in 1881, The platform of Gen, Buffers Anti
Monopoly party Of that year declared that
1t is the duty of the Government 70 immcdi-
atcly exercise its constitutional prerogative
to regulate among the States.
We hold Il, therefore, to be the imperative
and immediate duty OF Congress to pass all
needful laws for the control and regulation
of those great agents of commerce Grams
portgi ion. money and the transmission OF
intelligrnCcl."
The Democratic platform OF 1884 declares
for the pre- %vention Of MONOPOLY" and the
strict enforcement of individual rights
against corporate abuses. but that is a little
too indefinite for proper inclusion among the
ancestors of the present programme. The
Democratic platform of 1855 Is even more in
definite than that Of 1854, but the Republican
party swung into line In 1883 with a recon-
mendatlon TO Congress and the State Legis-
latures to enact such laws as would prevent
the execution of all schemes to Cypress tho
people by undue charges on their supplies,
or by unjust rates for the transportation OF
their products TO market. We approve the
legislation by Congress TO prevent alike un-
just burdens and unfair determinations be-
tween the States
MIR. TONNES excavation into the history
of political rate making did not 20 deep
enough. G,
WASHINGTON, April is,
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An Opportunity for a Law Enforcer.

The lynching bee in the thriving city
of Springfield in Governor FOLKS State
seems to have been more Of a public
function and matter Of course than
usual. The work was done in the full
glare of arc lights, and the leading
citizens" who used the hemp and piled
high the incinerating logs disdained
to wear masks. After two victims
whom the unfortunate woman in the
a failed to identify had been hanged
under the shadow of the statue of JUS
tice," which is Springfeld's pride, and
after their bodies had been thrown on a
rousing bonfire a thoughtful and gal
liant participant stood up and said:
Ladies and gentlemen, there is an
other man up in that Jail who killed old
man RoUARK. Shall we get him?' They
got him, or rather a negro who would
do as well, and, in spite of the wretch's
plea that Bud KANE killed old man
RoUARK," they made him jump with a
rope around his neck from the balcony
of the electric light tower, and when
the rope broke they made him jump
again, riddled the swaying figure with a
fusillade and finished by finging his
cadaver on the funeral pyre. In a re-
port of the bee this third lynching is
happily described as IAN af~terthought
on the part of the mob The mob had
other afterthoughts, as when a rush
was made to correct the mistake of send
ing the negro who hadn't killed old mar
RouARK into the presence Of his Maker,
but the accused had joined in the general
jail delivery and sought refuge in the
recesses Of the O2arks. The fact seems
to be that the mob was full Of after
thoughts, but the supply of negro pris-
oners had run out,
Mr.. A. N. SAGER, Circuit Attorney of
st. Louis, the office Mr.. FOLK filled be-
fore he became Governor, saw the mob
at its mad revel of hanging and burning
and says that it howled in chorus, Kill
every niger in the Jail" He also heard
the polite executioner appeal to the
ladies as well as the gentlemen to get
him; and women and children, says
Mr.. SAGER, were bowling for more"
In Springfield they seem TO teach the
Young idea how to hang as well as how
to shoot. That part of the community
which was on the streets wanted negroes
more than justice. The same old racial
hatred was manifested as that which
has made a byword of the other SPRING
field, in Ohio, the mother Of modern
Presidents. No backwoods settlement
il the Missouri Springfield but a busy.
and enterprising place Of 5000 people,
with railroad shops, foundries, factories,
Summaries and churches of all denomi-
nations.
What is to be the end Of it all but wide
spread race conflicts II the notion Of
killing negroes because they arc negroes
is not dispelled? The rushing of troops
to the scene of lynching may prevent
a massacre, but it will not prevent n
recurrence of negro killing under the
shadow of a statue Of justice when the
fit is on the mob again, Nothing but
enforcement Of the law without fear or
favor against all leading ~citizens' In
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aNNNu' W NNN ''o ~ btulNN
ToTHE EDITOR or The SuN-Sir: The soldiers
and veterans OF the Seventy .nrst Regiment passed
over in dignincd silence the absurd objections made
TO payment for furniture for their new armory. but
now that various newspapers have seen NJ 10 ridi.
Guile them in verse II may be proper to give the
public a correct idea OF the matter. The Seventy.
hrst has been burned out three times. In those
three fires II lost property OF a much greater value
than the amount asked for now for furniture, and
only a very small part OF the loss, which fell almost
entirely upon ofhcers and men. has ever been repaid
by tho State or city or Insurance companies.
These great losses were incurred because officers
and men went down into their own pockets to raise
the amounts which II was the duty OF the State and
city to pay, but which never were paid. The fur
nlture OF the last armory burned on tho present
site was OF the cheapest and nastiest description,
and there was not enough of 1t for a company.
The necessary. Indispensable nttings OF the armory
were paid for from the proceeds OF a fair, held long
ago,
Some OF the objections made are 40 puenle as
to excite only contempt. particularly that regard.
Ing opera chairs" These were iron chairs for the
galleries. Are the public when they come to drills,
reviews or games TO stand or sit on the noor' 1t
might be a good Idea TO let them do SO, and get
their opinion rs 10 cheese pairing economists. one
million fve hundred thousand dollars can be s?ent.
II seems. for the furniture and decoration OF the
Hail OF Records. but S97, 900 Is too much TO spend
upon furnishing another public building larger than
the Hall OF Records.
One fact wholly overlooked Is that the armory
is TO house not only the Seventy -nrst, but the Signal
Corps and is 10 be the headquarters OF the First
Brigade. 20 be the city hall OF 5000 soldiers,
All brigade business Of Manhattan and The Bronx
will he transacted there. Every military orgAnl-
zation In New York. therefore, sympathiEes with
the Seventy -nrst, and is indignant over the unde.
served sarcasm regarding Its furniture,
c, S, CLARK.
A Veteran OF the Seventh.
n Yosx. April u
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A Plea for u

From the Catholic Standard Tfm.s.
SIgnor, pleas, cScusa me
For m1ka lcCtla speech to you.
| nm so sad for NapOll;
am su'poSh you are. too.
| wecsh ! speak da ~lnglalcc so
Dat you would weep for hear me tai
wat com'sa wen Nesuvio
Ees open like dA mouth OF hal.
Ect ect could be dat you can go
Where | am bon-een Napoli-
Wen quiet eeS Vesuvio,
SO pTetta place you nevva see:
SO greena tel's. so blue da sky,
So blue dA waters cen da bay. -,
&c warna shire d. Sun-Oh. NY
You wecll no likl gon' away.
You wecll no care a lcetlh beet
For conln here TO maka mon:
You wccll be satlsn' for sect
Like laZz0Toni cen da sun.
Eet ees so gran dat, mcbbe 50,
Lake does ces heaven gona be
But hal ctS cen NtSuVio!
Wat well you do for NGpoli,
Da spreenG ccs smile on dccsa lam
An evrNthcenC cCs fresh an green.
You gatta dollars cen your han
An pretta ZONES 10. levin cen.
You gattA heart CenSide your breast
For feel for uddcr peopln, too.
For many time you do your best
For help da Russia man an Jew.
But here ecS women, mere ces men
An ieetlA girls an lcctls boys,
Dat seeng, Ike you, Hoes glory wen
Da Sprceng ees com wecth Easter lows.
But now dey cry for bread, an oh!
Dey are so poor as dey can be.
Slgnoul. pleas, ! like TO know
wat Weeu you do for Napolii
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sl3,l2S,o27

The Spanish IA tax on inheritancns
was not a socialistic measure for the re-
preston of unhealthy swollen fortunes.
1t was intended solely to produce rev.
enue in a time of national emergency.
1t was progressive in two senses. The
larger the inheritance, the larger the
rate of the tax, but the purpose of that
was to increase revenue, not to limit
fortunes. The second progressive fea-
ture of the tax, namely, a heavier rate
as the inheritor or legatee was more
remote in c~onsanguinity or a stranger in
blood, operated directly against the pur-
pose which Mr.. ROOSEVELT now has in
view, for as far as it could have any
effect upon the disposition of the prop
erty this discrimination against distant
relatives tended to discourage instead
of encouraging the division and distri-
button of the fortune subjected to the
transfer tax.
A tax proposed specifically for the
limitation of great fortunes is an alto
gether different thing from that which
we have been considering. 1t is Federal
c~onfscation to compel distribution. 1t
is practically as new a thing as would
be a progressive tax on offspring to4re-
vent overpopulation, if that evil were
imminent. 1t is entirely consistent with
President R~oosEvELT's general under
standing of the scope of Federal power
in the regulation Of the affairs of Ameri-
cans. 1t is also consistent with his early
declaration that the time has come for
a change from the old attitude of the
nation toward property.
But the old attitude of the nation
toward property is that which the Con-
stitution prescribes. If the time has
come for changing that old attitude the
time has likewise come for changing that
old Constitution.
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In the Cold Light.

1t is tIue that a Federal tax on inheri-
tances was imposed by the War Revenue
bill of June 10, 1898. 1t was one of the
ways of raising money to carry on the
fight with Spain. This tax was COL
lected for four years, yielding altogether
about thirteen million dollars, or a little
over fifty per cent. more revenue than
was derived during the same period from
the Federal tax on oleom argarlne:
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Berlin University that students from Ameri-
can colleges who go abroad are now
qualified 10 take post graduate courses in
Germany and not compelled to matriculate
for the lower classes as formerly, should
jar the anti-imperialists whose side line is
to declare that American education is going
to the devil because Of football.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-17

The price of elephants is going up by leaps
and bounds, and already they are beyond
the reach Of the wage Garner. A fve-foot
elephant, the most convenient size for use
in the little home patch that the poor man
is trying to make his own, now costs 81 400.
Only two years ago such an animal could
be had for 81 200.
If it isn't one thing it's another.
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DIR. WOODBURY FIRST WITNE"
When Aldermen's Committee HrG'hS "
Investigate Street Cleaning.

investigate Sireel tl'dU'"|'
The Aldermen's special conn, zee ap'
pointed to investigate the Stree 20"
ing Department met yesterday in TIE ""I.
OF William NJ. WINS, lbs counsel, 70 ""P
out its programme. The inquiry "",
gin tomorrow morning in the I'F H"-'
The committee will sit every M"na"H,
Wednesday Thursday and FRIDAY iT
will be but one session a day, ll-.inf IIn"
1890 A NJ. to 2.3O in the afternoo', OH ,.
missioner Woodbury. will be ia" mr.
ness called. Mr. Wins said N'-.rrnL.
th1t he expected Major Woodbury. = eNa'n''
nation would last three or four day. r,i.
Chairman r. Fulton Cutting OF me M ,Tr
zens' Union wrote yesterday t. ia
mittee urging that attention -AoH'' ~, -
given to the purchase of supple "..n ,Ts
public letting; to the reduction ~ '.-a.a
from trimming contracts; to m" tl' ,,,r.
In the cost Of final distribute, 'lr lag
chase Of horses and the method Of AeeP~S
~acoountS.
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To THE EDITOR OF THE SUS-Str: Yesterday l
walked up Fifth avenue with q man who offered
to pay me IS for every block In which we met a
pretty girl II I'd pay him 81 for each block In which
we didn't see one. | thought | had a sure thing,
but In the end my friend was s. ahead, and we'd
seen a lot OF humans In SKIRTS.
Vow But the women We met were sights, al.
though some OF them did wear good clothes.
NEW YORK. April 10. P1rrsBURo.
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When Governor CUMMINs Of Iowa and
GEORGE d. PERKINS, his rival for the Re-
publican nomination for Governor. call
each other ~muok raker' in a joint debate
1t is evident that the term may now be re-
garded as offensive.
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II the hotel keepers continue to eyict
MAXIM GoRKY they will leave him no time
for the liberation Of Russia. The Gar
may be called an absolutist, but the DEGREES
of Mrs. GRUMPY are inexorable.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-17
A BABY Bride.

From The Hazel Green Herald.
Cal Bush and Ida Dunn, daughter OF John Dunn
OF Lacy Creek. were married Wednesday evening,
the Rev. James Madden oniclating. The bride
Is only about IL or is years OF age.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-17
Eggs and Rowing.

And why not eggs,
Why not, forsooth.
As food for those
Athletic youth
Who pull the oar
To keep their boat
Ahead OF everything
Ahoat7
The egg is from
The pullet and
But why explAini
You understand.