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New-York tribune., 1907-12-01
no "H4TLED HAND"

The decision by a federal court at St Louis
that a transportation line lying wholly within
one state may be subject TO federal control be
cause il carries goods consigned from another
state is vigorously condemned by dissenting
member of the tribunal. Assuming a conser-
vative state rights attitude the dissenter de-
scribes the majority decision an advanced
doctrine respecting the extension Of federal
Jurisdiction and denounces the ''philanthropc
feature of the prosecution" as nothing more
than ''the rose in the mailed hand The for
mer Characterization may perhaps be just. 1t
NAV be that the decision in question is ''ad-
yanced" little further than former decisions
concerning the power of Congress TO regulate
commerce between states. But in no authori-
tative dictionary can we find advanced" set
down as synonyme of 'criminal' or ''unlaw-
full" even improper" On the contrary, ad-
yancement is usually regarded as commend
able, the only question being whether it is
effected in the right direction and within the
right limits That is a question to be deter
mined calmly and logically and according to the
Constitution, and not by virtue of superheated
rhetoric.
And the reference to ''the rose in the mailed
hand must. with due respect be regarded as
more rhetorical than judicial. There is no
mailed hand" in this country. Those who
affect TO see in national sovereignty potential
and menacing despotsm and only In stare
rights an assurance of popular liberty are
strangely in error in their view Of the Amer
lean governmental system. Under monarchi-
cal form of government assertion Of the central
authority may be antagonistc TO popular rights.
But in this country the central or federal gov
ernment is as much the creation and the ser
want Of the people as is any state government,
ard is just truly to be described as gov
''ernment of the people, by the people, for the
people" There is just as much possibility IF
states government using a mailed ha4G"
SO. In fact the record shows that individual
state governments have often been and to-day
are more exacting and more restrictive Of the
liberties of individuals than the federal gov
ernment. 1t is by no means an unheard-of
thing for citizens to appeal from what they
had reason to regard the strictness If not
the tyranny of a state to the more liberal and
generous popular sovereignty of the nation.
We should regret to see the constitutional
rights, privileges and autonomy Of the states
impaired, though we no reason for lying
awake O. nights worrying over an imaginary
danger Of 1t. But il 1t We're done, as we have
no idea ii viii ever be, 1t would be done not
by any mailed hand" but by the ballot cast
ing hand of the American citizen The con-
troversy, which appears to us to have been
raised needlessy, concerning the supposititious
conflict between federal and state authority
is not and in the nature of the case could
not be one between tyranny and liberty, be-
tween autocracy and democracy. 1t can
most be no more than one between two
New-York tribune., 1907-12-01
N. Y. U. SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED.

Yearly scholarships. valued at $3.50. were dis1rio-
uted Friday fifteen students in the ColIes'
and School of Applied Science OF New YORK CIF-
versity "A reward for high standing n sl-ueN
They We're: Thomas 5. Bailey scholarship. SAV' iOi
a prospective minister George Fl Sconeld' COi-
gers. y. Y; Jay Gould scholarship. S-so. NaH
Dwight Sheldon New York CITY; JAY GouId scuo'- 10
arship SEQ. Frank L. Booth. Grand Gorge " T.
Jay Gould scholarship. S27O. Andrew Hanii.'Vn' H
RoxbUry. y. Y: Western scholarship. S-'' eS'S
lished by Miss Gould for student in the teIl-
tory of the Western Gould railroads, CIauus =
Palmer. OsawatoTne. Kan Five others, Ol 'H
same value. by Miss Gould Were; South"este'I'
for student In the territory of the southwest,
Gould systems, Harry Z. Mowen, FOrt o D.-
Ark. captain New York University footoaiI 'ea,''
Delaware County. for resident. Burton u 49,
Delaware County. N. Y; koxbury. r AA -
Kelly. Roxbury. n. Y: Tarrytown. Waoroii
Mond. Tarrytown. N. Y: Irvington. John NJ "a, -
sidy. Irvington. n. Y: Gould Engineerins -
arship sL35. established by Frank J. 80 -
John X Sanford. Halcottsviie. N u; NO'urs nNr
scholarship. S2S5. established by MISS las - -
throp. Alan h. More. New York Ci'y' 'e -,
s22S divided between Van Dwight slelocii' -. -
York City, and George s. Armstrong o'0'H,. ..
William III. Inman fellowship. s22S. GoFton A''"
Fonda Yonkers. n. Y.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-01
A NEK TOCAYION.

If all the good advice which was dispensed Tree
of charge at the annual convention OF tle I'''
c;ation of Colleges and Preparatory ochooio VI
tho Middle States and Maryland is taken 10
heart. p new vocation will shortly be open 10
qualified asprants. Speaking on lle 9noi
comngs of American colleges and universities
President Wilson of Princeton gave voice TO one
thought which has been long stirring III Ihe
minds of many educators and has become d
,ro,-or on many Inns Complaining that the
colleges now dispense loose information lhsteau
Of developing the students intelligence, Dr-
Wilson declared most important the estap-
..Iishment in the pupils mind or Ihe Feia'iol
"between the facts that we impart TO hlm l
have always contended' he went on lhaI
every university should have Professor OF
Things in General
A new vocation, did we say! wen, s'iie'
usapa wouId nor countenance the adjective; for
ever since four-yearold boys have tourlsheu
there have been nonacademic Professors of
Things in General, every FOND fatner kho"9'
And even the history of higher education can
show brilliant unforgcttable collegiate spe'i-
mems strewn as sparsely as geniuses between tne
Iounging place of Socrates and modern .dorniI-
tories Nevertheless the work of PROFESSOR Oh
Things in General is new yocauon' lor IL I''
never been Il vocation, but rather an lnsplratloh
To-day 81 vast and bewilderngly complex IS the
world of knowledge that such professors must oe
trained But where shall the colleges find pupils
for the training school? Who is wiling 10
grapDle with Things in General? IhiS hyura
grows nine new sciences for every one loppeu
off and set apart by those who war on the
worlds secrets Who dares make it his HE
work to study the bearing of physiological DIS
coveries upon morals and medicine the slShlii-
canoe mathematical theories Of lnhnlty nave ior
religion and art the relation between the DO
logical theory of mutation and the ethics or
canta1 punishment and all the other coarse
and fine threads that run through the world ;
unroIling fabric? When the asprant 10 the new
chair learns that, in addition TO knowledge or
all the sciences and arts, he must possess
enough canniness to advise his pupils when not
10 bet on the home team and when 10 take
Jobs that are offered them. he Will probably
hitch his auto 10 another star Of lesser mag
nitde
In doing this he will err. lie should stick it
out: for however imperfectly he may master
his specially" he will surely know enough
about it TO rescue his pupils from the mlrE
shadows in which he viii find them blndIy
hut cheerfuIlv splaShing and stumbling. Not
until his senior wear does the average student
begin to catch gImpses of the connections be
tween science. and science. between art and
history between college work and daily life.
Could he see these vital links two years earlier
how much more he would get ont Of his studies.
/ How keen his interest would he in things long
sealed or reckoned stupid, Let us have Pro
fessors of Things in General soon as pos
sibIe: and let their ignorance Of some things
general and particular he no barrier TO their
practice.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-01

the interval as Silverites, or Popullsts. In the
House of Representatives Mr. Sbey. OF Penn
sylvania. changed his politics. and his conVer-
sion was accepted by the Republican orgahlza-
tfon TO which he attached himself
There is. in fact. a recent case on record
exactly paralleling Mr. Porter's. III 19o2 three
Republican Representatives were elected III
Allegheny County, Penn. on titzehS
ticket. indorsed by the Democratic organization
Many newspapers Were mised on Election his'lI
into counting them as Democrats, according ~
the Hepburn method and thus cutting the HUI
Gated Republican majority in the House lower
than it really was But these three members
had no idea of acting with the opposltioil anu
they we're all received into full Repucilcah
fellowship when they went 10 washington a
man may be Republican, even IL ne uoes no'
run for office on the regular Republican Ticket
His heliefs, opinions and intentions are more
10 the point than the technical party dessna-
tions under which he happened to be voted 1or.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-01
COLONEL HEPRURN'S JEST.

The Hon William p Hepburn, of Iowa, is a
humorist of no mean calibre. lie dearly loves
his joke in the members lobby of the House of
Representatives or on the floor of that body
But he is carrying the spirit of ievity too far
when as chairman OF the Republican House
caucus he refuses TO issue n card of member
ship TO the Hon. Peter 4. Porter, the new Rep
resentatfve from the 34th District of New
York. and apparently induces the House caucus
TO take that edict Of exclusion seriously. Our
Washington dispatches intimate that Colonel
Hepburn draws some fine distinctions in the
matter Of eligibility. and holds that because Mr..
Porter stood as an independent Republican with
a Democratic Endorsement. and defeated regu-
lar Republican, Mr.. Wadsworth. he is not en-
titled 10 enter the Republican House caucus or
TO receive committee assignments a Repub-
lican Such punctilousness may testify favor
ably TO Colonel Hepburn's sense of exactitude
and consciousness of responsibility, but it
narrows unduiy the definition of Republicanism
and unwisely attempts to judge man by what
the ballot laws may have happened to call him,
and not by what he really is.
There can be no question that Mr.. Porter was
elected with the full understanding that he was
a Republican. The contest in the 34th District
was really between two Republicans, and Mr..
Porter was chosen not because of his opposition
TO the administration and to Republican pol
icies but because il was thought that he would
represent Republican sentiment better than his
Republican predecessor had succeeded in doing.
He made no secret Of his intention TO act with
the Republican party ia the House, and The
Tribune Almanac for 1907 classified him as a
Republican, il view Of all these facts. Theo-
reticaliy there is no excuse for holding that a
Representative who considers himself Repub-
lican and who is accepted as a Republican by
his own constituency, cannot associate on equal
terms with other Republican members of the
House.
Moreover, precedent and practice are both
against Mr.. Porters exclusion. Many Sena-
tors and Representatives have been elected by
party and shifted their allegiance to another.
Senator Teller, long Republican, became a
Silver Republican and finally Democrat But
he was neser compelled to remain in any one
party cancus simply because he had used that
Iarfys designation at the time of bis most
recent election. Senators Stewart and Jones OF
Nevada both left the Republican Jarty and
sss"Ad TO 1t, though both were reelected In
New-York tribune., 1907-12-01
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY,".
TFrorn The Tribune Bureau


yx-aebinpton Nov 90-Mrs. John W. roster gave
+oa ,tis AFTERNOON for her student guests the
Young men from Princeton and the gTIS t'o
pr,yn ,Iawr who are spending their ThahksslElls
holiday with her number OF other stuueiiO'
vino are at home for the vacation anu 'i'0
debutantes OF this season were the guests MI
John Timmons daughter of the Nice-PresideIiI
and Mrs Fairbanks; Mrs. Blake, Wife OF 'ile
American Consul at Madeira, and MISS baIOa1@
Brode assisted Mrs. Foster
ouartermaster General James B. AIeshre and
Mrs AIeshre have entertained for the Thahks-
giving holiday Miss Helen Taft. daughter of the
Secretary of War and Mrs. Taft. Miss Taft ac-
companied General and Mrs. Aleshire and MISS
Marjorie AIeshire 20 Philadelphia to-day TO see the
Army and Navy football game, and Will return 10
school at Bryn Mawr Tomorrow.
Mr.. and Mrs. Larz Anderson will not open their
Washington home until the middle OF January.
They are now at their New England estate.
Miss Margaret Hitchcock. daughter OF the ex-
Secretary of the Interior and Mrs Hitchcock. is
tho guest of her brother-in-Iaw and sister. Lieu
and VIII remain here until after Christmas. when
she Will Join her parents in St. Louis
Mrs Stephen 3. Elkins and Miss Elkns are en-
tertainng Mrs. George Law, OF New York. who.
with Miss Elklns. is a daily attendant at the
Benuing races. Mrs. Law will remain here for
days.
Tho marriage Of Second Lieutenant Logan
Tucker, L. s NJ G.. grandson OF General John y.
Logan. TO Mrs. May Barbour Broome will take
place at the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal
Church in this city on Tuesday. Mr. Tucker is the
guest OF his grandmother AT StoneIeigh Court
Representative GiIlett arrived in Washington to-
night and will make his homo the Connecticut
with Associate Justice Moody of the Supreme
Court.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-01
At THE WHITE HOUSE.
rFrono The Tribune Bureau-I

--,,..o, Nov. so-The President this after-
= oce,ved Prince Poniatowskf. proiiiIio
I>.orob banker. who IS in this country stuuSIe
a-o,oia, conditions The prince left the city tiI'
a,,ering for New York. where he VIII meet HUM
her of bankers ..,o.,, Fed
Samuel Gompers. president of the AInerloan a-a =,
.tor of labor called at the White HouSo
asa+ n number of Porto Rican labor represenIoI-
...as THE Porto Ricans left a memorial WIN 81.
president which depicts a deploraDle coii
labor in the island . . s,,- Locked
pasident Roosevelt's visiting list to-day iooAeo
,;ka a Senate rollcan with d few ftepr -,
.tro,,r in for good measure Among 'he -
,,,ara senators Allison, Hansbrough, roster -,
Won Depew Smoot. McCumber. Gaiiioie' %. O.
- C1ov Carter Long and Beverage anu rN'p
rasan+atives Adamson, Cocks, WoooS"iN
,bey Porter Prince and Hayes >-
delegation representing the army aid -
,r,,on initiated the President into the oruei " -
sfter the ceremony which did not take hlolo
&c ,,inutes J. E. Brown. the natlonai coii -, :,
- The union presented to the Presldehl d
Studded badge of the organization. r,,,,
rather Ketchurn head of the Boaro CI 81 nr
,,,seions called to present Judge huhi'itr 80 u
south McAIlister, Okla. and Governor 'oA''
Brown of the Seminoies.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-01
PREFERS BEING A PRISONER.
er dispatch 10 Boston Herald

Worcester dispatch to Boston Herald.
General Josiah Pickett. of the best known
military men in Worcester, who has been confined
to his home for about a year. observed his e,ghtv
fifth birthday to-day He visited by many Of
his friends, and received flowers from various or
sanizato with which he is connected. His physi-
cal condition Is critical and during the last six
months his death has been expected at almost any
time.
General Pickett claims the distinction Of being
the only officer of the Civil War
arrest The incident took place tefore the battle Of
Cold Harbor, Colonel Pickett being in charge of
the 25th Massachusetts Regiment The questioning
by him of orders issued by General Stannard in
command OF the brigade Of which the Massachu-
sets regiment was II part. resulted in Colonel
Pickett being placed under arrest. He went into
the battle. however, and distinguished SO
that he recommended for promotion by the
officer who ordered him under arrest.
The incident of the arrest forgotten and
although Senator Hoar during his lifetime had Of
fered to have special act introduced into Con
gress to relieve him of this arrest General Pickett
declined. preferring to die a military prisoner.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-01
WONDERS OF ELECTRICITY AFLoAr.


Nothing moro complete than the electric insta,,o
ton for power and light has been carried ont tban
board the great Cunarder Mauretania The Ma ~
In use is equal TO some Of the generating stations
land for supplying city of one hundred tbon
sand Inhabitants The steam power reouirad Sor
the installation would drive a l0OOo-ton carSo
steamer at the rate OF ten knots an hour The aiac
trical transmission of power has been introduced
for driving various auxiliary motors used In tbo
working of the ship. There over one hundrad
electric motors throughout the ship. supplvine
for opening and closing the main sluic va ~,
and for turning the main shafts for lftine% % tbe
turbine covers and driving the bilge pumps whiie
sixteen motors of 5o.horsepower each drive the
force draft 1hls 10; the furnaces. Other motors
supply power for the refrigerating rnachjnery, ~
the aft end of the vessel The passenger eleyatar
and other hoists for the mail and baggage and
supplying coal to the galley all eiecfricaiiy
driving the dough mixer and the dish wasnng
machines, knife and boot cleaning machines bees
siicers. potato cleaners rOaSterS etc In ~
ventilation and heating Of the ship electric motors
supply air to the stokehoe. and twenty fans ven
tlate the engine room; ffty-four motors are 6t "a
to therno tanks for supplying either hof or cold
air throughout the ship. There are also four elec
tr1c Jib cranes for handling baggage and other
goods. and four electric lifeboat holstA ''A0-
New-York tribune., 1907-12-01
FDDTB tIT.

Tho crandstands have emptied The cleaners
ara r,jckinq I'D crumpIed score cards, old rib
bons battered dcrbes apd shattered canes.
Some warriors are beating their shinguards into
textbooks while others are trying to swap th"lf
crimv moIeskr trousers for good brer pipes.
The SPECTATORS and vendors are back In Broad
WAY again ready to fleece Philistines by wieS
newly learned i'll academic quarters In brief.
the football season of 1907 is all over. except
for the shouting and the theorzing. Yale has
again secured her expected primacy in tie
East whereby the money stringeney has ceased
disturbing New Haven. Out West iost Is
drawing diagrams 10 prove that PennSy didn't
drub the Michigan team. while thick book
entitled How It Happened" is being written by
Ithacans. But as the students here, there and
everywhere gradually drift back into the lecture
rooms the intellectual aspect Of the pigskin
season will ere long be uppermost in campus
conversations. What will be said In the IN
pending debates Heaven only knows; the friends
of the game will be jublant and its foes wrathy.
and many old arguments and observations will
be revived.
The statistics about the seasons games show
clearly that the football player will not have
to take up burglary in order to prove himself
no mollycodde Eleven players have been
killed and ninety-nine seriously injured TO make
autumnal holidays merrier. This would give
grounds for q forlludDle argument against tne
game but for the fact that the large majority
of serious mishaps occurred among the ranks
of "greenhorns' immature players and indie
pendents who have not adopted the new rules.
In debating the prOpriety of the game this
should constantly be borne in mind Football,
like long distance swimming and running, lli-
tomobe racing, ballooning boxing and many
other sports, can be safely INDUCED in only by
men of peculiar strength. stamina, build and
alertness. 1t cannot be sweepingly diScredlted
by the lamentable injuries incurred by youths
whom any rational gymnastic instructor would
order off the gridiron on first sight. This years
report resembles all previous ones in the dis
tribution of injuries between colleges and pre-
paratory schools. The latter as usual have
suffered far more than the former; which sug
gests perhaps, the advisablity of enforcing
more stringent set of rules for the younger
players whose Trailer boro~ lower endurance
and neophytic rashnes .4DiIoC rise to the
achievements of the eIder brothers. Football
theorizers may consider such a proposition un-
worthy of notice, but they will not fail to OBJ
serve that there has been of late strange
lapse in the anti-football agitation. Can it be
that the foes of the game have been impressed
by the strength Of public opinion as revealed
by the attendance at all the important contests
this fall?
New-York tribune., 1907-12-01

Miss Constance rockingham Whitehead daugh-
ter of Mrs. Charles Whitehead and granddaughter
of the late Charles rockingham. and Stuart Gate
wood Gbboney. of ID. Kyle Gibboney. of Vir-
ginia, married yesterday in Grace Church
chantry. The bride. who given away by her
uncle Charles II. Leland wore gown of white
messalne duchesse satin. made with a court train
and trimmed with point lace belonging TO her
grandmother. The veil OF tulie fastened with
a fillet of pearls. Miss Edith Whitehead was her
sisters maid of honor. There were no bridesmaids
but the bridal party was Immediately preceded by
six of the brides intimate friends. Mrs Buchanan
Schley jr., Miss Nathalie HilIyer Miss Louise
Glider, Miss Louise Jenkins Miss Maria Douglas
and Miss Rita Stevens. who had seats reserved for
them. The best man John +. East and the
ushers were D. p. Barhydt Marshall and Buchanan
Schley, jr.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-01
Says 1.-THE Brooklyn Eagle with great p0''

No Republican National Convention mas 1a 6eIe
named n candidate for President unless tiie f ueIT
CATION the candidates STATE Was aa hsY been
In favor of him. Many candl1ates navy toua
unanimously supported by their states ana & mavo
then not been nonina ted by the 1au0nai boten
ton hut every nominee has had the uhproh'0ii
support OF his own state
Never sometimes means hardly ever IL mus.
in this case. for in the Republican Natioha-
Convention of 1883 Benjamin Harrison noffii-
mated on the seventh ballot. had the "unorokeh
support of his own state on only one ballot the
fourth There were votes cast for waiter ~
Gresham on all the other ballots by lnoiaiia
delegates-one on the first. two on the secoru'
two on the third and one each on the fifth. siXth
and seventh. 4-L&hv asAAi
New-York tribune., 1907-12-01

From time to time kindly disposed natives =.
England have called the attention OF Aiiiei 10.
n the wide and lamentable differences pet"
the language spoken John Bulrs ls'aiiu O., a.
the one used in this country we nave
often tempted to scoff at the fnforhla'l'9' -
incessant relteration Of this ahegeo i'O =
even made us fancy that the sun Ae a.
on Rrftish prepossessions. But now we ols
-. - o,,ersea cousins to have been quite
r,ob+ and orr own belief in the substantial
identity of the English and American iahsua s.
a vanity. For the London Morning ro''
tells us. in a large headline, about Inc
lived and Epileptic Hospitals Jubilee. 49,
this. what American could pretend that he
sneaks the tongue of LondOners?
New-York tribune., 1907-12-01
[By Telegraph to Tho Tribune. ]

New Orleans Nov. 3o-John Avery McIlhenny. of
Washington. a member of the United States Civil
Service Commission and with President Roose-
veit's Rough Riders in the Spanish-American War;
was married this afternoon to Miss Anita Vincent
Stauffer. great-granddaughter of President Tay-
lor on the maternal side. The ceremony was per-
formed In the St Louis Catholic Cathedral in the
French quarter. by Archbishop Blenk. IL was
necessary to obtain special dispensation from
the Pope. Mr. McIlhenny being of the Episcopal
faith, and this was done through the offices OF
President Roosevelt
New-York tribune., 1907-12-01
TILE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.
rE,-om The Tribune Bureau j

rFrom The Tribune Bureau-i from
washington. Nov So.-The Amoass'Ou ar,ssts az
rraz,I and Mmo Nabuco will entertain r,i.Is,er
dinner tomorrow night to meet | t40 aro betne
Gron, chill and sehora dc Cruz-Diaz. VINO arc O.l,S
sntartainad by all the foreign ambassadors anu
ministers. ,o,, abroad on
seDtember TO- leaving Sehor Don LUIS a''C. .t,s
secretary, as charge dahares' WI, ,-n yorl,
,o,,,+rv on tuesday and will bo met IN Ne" -
bI the second secretary, sehor Don Manuei W ans
He will probably remain in New 1orA d o'
two before coming to the capital