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New-York tribune., 1907-01-24
DIR. SHAW DISCUSSES NEGRO PROBLEM.
Says Country Need Not Feel Any Great
Concern About Immigrants.

In lecture at Columbia University Yesterday
br Albert Shaw maintained that the United States
Is at present in no great danger either from the
toe or immigration from Europe or from the
Negroes IN the South Both problems, he said
might be solved nationally through the great power
OF assimilation OF American institutions
The Negroes. he said would develop qraduall,
and finally come into the proper exercise OF their
pohticaI powers. which at present they Theoretically
have
The Negro race will decline steadily in relarivs
numbers, he said. 'and will remain socially dis
unce and will be greatly improved by the sheer
necessities OF situation that will subject # 70 a
competitive struggle for existence"
Regarding the immigration from Furop. ba oon-
tinued:
II We ma the process OF assimilation "a not
seriously disturbed. there would seem no sufcant
reason for attempting to place severe and arbitrary
restriction upon the how OF European immigrants
to our shores The fact that our Industrial ac-
dviues have readily absorbed the new labor sup
ply would not permanently justify so huge a vol
urne or immigration unless It were reasonably cor
tain that IN due time these strange people would
become merged and altogether Arerfcan'
concern was that the criminal classes OF this coun-
try came not from the immigrants themselves but
fOn their chudren BE said that the present
Immigration or Japanese laboFers was not 80 great
as 70 cause any concern. though In future might
be advisable 20 restrict II
New-York tribune., 1907-01-24
THE sUPERKAE IN POLITICS.

Senator Joseph w. Bailey IS a sagac;ous az
well as q fortunate statesman. Seeing that be
would have 10 be vindicated as well as elected
by the Texas Legislature, he has prudently
chosen TO be elected first and indicated after
ward Vinoicston can wait, Ike the poor cat
n the adages but delays are dangerous when
II comes 20 holding balky Legislature in line
and mailing down an election. Mr. Bailey pre-
fers 20 "take the cash and let the credit go {"
Having the votes, he has confidently taken the
title and left the Legislature 20 wrestle with
The problem OF adjusting certain awkward facts
in his record 20 Texas standards OF political
honor and propriety.
Mr.. Bailey's election in the face of serious
and as yet unanswered charges is a signal tri.
umph for the Superman in politics. The Texas
Senator may be innocent Of Nietzsehe and Shaw.
But either instinctlvely or with set design bs
has played the role OF 'tUebermensch" sincp the
day he first took the oath Of Office as Repre-
stntatlVe m Congress. He was-in his own
eyes. at least-the embodiment Of Jeffersonian
simplicity and virtue, as detached austere and
sncorTuptible 4 patriot as Robespierre. the
champion Of unfrilied and undiluted Democ-
racy. His proud spirit rebeIled at donning that
symbol Of efeminaey and conventionality the
-fuA dress suit" and his letter declining IN
visit The White House after D. NJ. unless he
could appear IN his usual statesman's garb
hned the Texas heart Ike a new declaration
OF social end political independence.
Il am not, never have been and never can
be as other men are" was the keynote of Mr..
Basley's legislative career. and though he over
came his repngnance 40 the ''dress coat and
began 10 look with tolerance on departures here
and there from the strict code OF Jenersonian
simplicity De has always posed as In essen
tails q survivor from an age OF loftier idea ls
and stricter scruples In politics Less than q
rear ago be delivered IN the Senate q remark
able eulogy Oh himself, in which be pointed out
New-York tribune., 1907-01-24
RUSSIAN ELEcToRAL yErvons

The scattering Russian election returns which
are now being reported from time to time rnust
not be taken as contradiction of the former
announcement of the holding of the elections
simultaneously on February 10. The elections
which are now occurring are not for members
or the new Douma, who are not TO be elected di
rectly by the people, but at most for nothing
more than members of the government assem-
blies, or electoral colleges. by which the
members Of the Douma will be chosen next
month The system of election is complicated
and is being kept so purposely, and perhaps
wisely. by the government, but II will not he
difficult for those familiar with the American
and British systems 20 understand II.
For electoral purposes Russia Is divided into
two parts, cities and country. There are twen
ty-one cities. ST. Petersburg elects six meo
bersr Moscow four and the others one each
making twenty nine urban members in all These
might be compared with the borough member.
In the United Kingdom All the rest corra
spending TO British county members. are elected
by the rural part of the empire. The empire Is
as is we'll known, divided into provinces. or
governments. In each OF these there is or is
10 be, q government assembly" chosen nv MN.
ular vote, and corresponding to the electoral
colleges In our states, which elect the President
or TO the legislatures. which choose federal Sem
ators. These assemblies elect the memhars NJ
the Douma. The assemblies themselves ora
elected. however. not by uniform and equal nom
ular suffrage. but by the votes OF four distinct
classes-to wit. the urban elective bodies fbe
landowners, the peasants and the workmen. The
urban elective bodies. or local legislatures elect
New-York tribune., 1907-01-24
LARGER PUBLIC SALARIES.

Fifteen or twenty years ago the passage OF a
measure increasing the salaries of Senators and
Representatives in Congress would have been
the signal for an Outburst OF violent protest and
denunciatiOn. The fate Of the Congressman who
voted for the sO-called salary grab" of 1879
which, Of course involved a very different ques-
tiOn--is still distinctly remembered though only
students of American history will recall that 4
similar popular rebuke administered to the
Congress which in 1916 changed the rate OF
compensation from SO day 10 $500 year.
The 1000 year salary abolished in 1917
and allowance of IS, instead of SO, was
granted. That stood unchanged until 1865,
when n salary OF $1,000 year was substituted.
The present compensation of 5000 dates from
1855. The Salary grab" Of 1873 raised such n
storm that the rate of $500 which It created.
and, I'm particular. made retroactive, was abol-
ished soon as the succeeding Congress could
organize. Since then Representatives and Sen
atOrs have been extremely cautious about vent
uFlng to put n higher money value on their
official services.
The change now proposed will excite little or
no hostile comment. because the public realizes
that the cost of living has greatly increased in
Washington, as II has everywhere else and that
the purchasing power OF all salaries IS falling.
If 5000 suitable compensation for Sem
atOrs and Representatives IN 1865 or in 1885
$500 is no more than a suitable compensation
to-day. The apparent increase is neutrallzed by
the increase in cost of living at the national
capital, and the new rate should be considered
not as advance but as an equalization. No
one can justly complain, either. of the increases
made in the salaries Of the Cabinet officers and
of the Vice-President and the Speaker of the
House of Representatives. Those posts are posts
Of responsibility and dignity, and their incum-
bents are required to live scale which has
ntVfrR fhn oln foG nod nftnr
$4,000. Cabinet officers, in particular, who must
live in washington ten months or more in every
year, were plainly entitled to more liberal con-
sideratiOn. The money spent to increase their
salaries, with those OF the Speaker and the Vice
President to $4,000 will be sensbly spent, and
the American public will not begrudge them the
higher compensation.
New-York tribune., 1907-01-24
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
IFrom The Tribune Bureau.I

From The Tribune Bureau
Washington Jan. 23-The President received To-
day a large delegation of powder manufacturers
who came TO protest against the monopoly IN gov
ernment contracts said to be enjoyed by the So
called powder trust Representative Lareah' OF
Pennsylvania escorted the powder makers 70 'ne
White House. and then. upon advice of the Fres'-
dent, took them to the War. State and Navy Bullo-
ing. where they laid their before Secretaries
Taft and Metcalf
Callers at the White House to-day included Sen
ators Knox Spooner and Frye Representatives
Lloyd. Capron. Southland, CUshTnan. Bede, Butter
and Mckinley. and Director Walcott. of the Geo
logical Survey who to-day elected secretary
OF the Smithsonian Institution.
The President told Representative Davis. OF
Mi9nesota that he was committed to the principle
OF the proposition in Mr. Davis's bill for an in
crease in the salaries Of government employees
The President. however. thinks that any increase
which may be made by Congress should include
also the salaries and pay of army and navy officers
and enlisted men.
Mrs. Roosevelt mas issued invitations for an AT
home. with music. from to s. Friday, February l.
New-York tribune., 1907-01-24
4rnlLSenents.

ACADEMY or Mr-sIC-s15-Ths Girl OF IN. Golden
Wess
ALHAMBRA-2-s-V Vaudeville
ASDOR-S 3O-The Straight Road.
bEI-AS5O- Is The Rose Of the Rancho.
slJOL-s-lS-A Dolls House
bROADWAH-S:lO-T Partisan Model
SASlNO-2-S:IS-Prncess BeggaT-
COLONIAL audeyille
cRITERION-S.l5-The Truth
DAL1S-S :lb-The Belle Of Mani
FDEN MUSEE-The World in
EMPIRE-2-S-Peter Pan.
GARDENS -I5-The Student KinE.
fsARRfCK-S :3o-Caught in the Rain.
fACkETT- Pos 30--The Chorus Lazy
lIAAMERSTEIN'S VICTORIA-s s.l5--Naudeyllis.
HERALD SQT7ARE[-S:15-Th The Road n YESTERDAY
lfIPPODFeOME- Nepiune's Daughter and Pioneer
Days.
FUDsON-s: :l5-The HypocritPs
IRVING PLACE-s20-Der blnde Passenger.
KNICKERBOCKER-s -sl5-The Red Mill
LIBERTY: 16-Salony Jane.
LINCOLN SQTARE-S:i5-The Prince Chap
LTCEITM-215-S :l5--The Lion and the Mouse
LfRIC-S-John tie Baptist.
MADISON SQUARES -l5-The Three of Is.
MAJESTIC = -S:l5-BroWn Of Harvard.
MANHATTAN .l5-L.es Miserables
NEW AMSTERDAM s:1b-- -BTeNsfeTs Millions
NEW NORk-S:15-The Vanderbilt Gun.
PRINCESS 2.2O- 8 20-The Great Divide
SANOY-2:l5- :i5--The Man Of the Hour.
ST. NICHOLAS RISK-s-f'rescent St Nicholas
TTsLHARMONIr HALLS. 4:l5. $50 9:%5-Fleetrie
music.
Waldorf AsTORIA-tierrnan Charity Ball.
NALL.ACK SIS 1.-THE Rich Mr. Hoggenheimer.
WEBER RS-s l5-Dream City and The Magic Knight
New-York tribune., 1907-01-24

Of supply for city Of New York From 100000 to
Z0Ot.9 tons OF North River ice consumed IN
New York City each season Coalitions this winter
are not worse than usual
1 do not pretend TO be expert upon the sub
tect OF disease germs and their dissemination bur
II does seem that il there serious danger from
this source 1t would have demonstrated itself IN the
many years that this condition has existed. Some
authority has stated-and l have never heard The
statement seriously QuestiOned-that flowing water
Will purify itself IN seven miles, The Hudson ebbz
and flows twice every twenty-four hours as Far
north as the state dam at Troy. This may account
for the apparent freedom OF the water from con-
tairinati0n, Tor many OF the iCehOuses'' are
as stated by Mr. Hatch, situated 'iust below Al
hany. For the first seven miles south OF ALBANY
that Is. TO Cedar Hill. there are icehouses with
capacity OF perhaps 10000 TONS certainly not over
river OF about 4.000OO tons
DO not want 10 be understood as claiming that
there Is no danger OF contamination from sswage
70 Hudson River ice: on the contrary there IS some
0itnSer- reputation the river banks Is iucreas-
ing ana with 1t the vegetable and animal waste Is
growing larger. and Is being disposed OF by de-
posting the same in the river BY one method or
another The danger from this source. hOWever
as the facts disclose, Is greatly exaggerated ana
there is no Immediate danger to the health o. ms
community from this source
New York. jan 15. 1907 ANDREW COI.vIN
New-York tribune., 1907-01-24
A BRIEF FOR HUDSON RIVER ICE.
No Fear of Dissemination of Typhoid from
It's Use, Writer Declares.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir; Your Issue OF this morning contains an item
In which II Is stated that Edward Hatch jr. chair
man of the COMMITTEES OF the Merchants Associa-
ton upon the pollution of the waters Of New York
State. requests the State Commissioner OF Health
TO institute Immediate surveillance Of the Hudson
River Toe neld. Mr.. Hatch stated multitude OF
unsanitary possibilities and impossihllltIes. and
adds. "A piece OF ice the size ordinarily to
cool a glass of water might contain enough hac-
teria TO dscimate army
1t has been my good fortune TO have spent over
twsnty-n i've years of my life the banks Of the
upper Hudson In that time never heard OF a
case Of typhoid contracted by a boatman upon his
boat. whila the fact Is. that every towing boat
barge and canalooat and most OF the passenger
steamers supplied with water for drinking pur-
poses directly from tho river, unaltered, even In
the hottest days OF summer. and cooled with ice
which has been cut from the river during the pre-
cedinE winter. remember a case, some years ago.
or pilot who had typhoid but he would not drink
the river water. and brought his drinking water
from the well at his house ON shore. The typhoid
germs were found In the. we'll
This agitation against North River ice Is
perennial i wonder II any has noticed the
fact that IN spite Of all that has been written and
iauon 10 FORBID the harvesting OF Hudson River ice
has been repeatedly attempted. there have been no
cases or Vphoid IN this city which have been
traced, or substantially charged, Hudson River
Ice; and this In gpte of the fact, stated by Mr.
Hatch. that The Hudson River u the main souroe
New-York tribune., 1907-01-24

directly their representatives to the government
assemblies. So do the great landowners. The
small landowners have to elect preliminary rep
resentatives who join with the representatives
of the great landowners in selecting secondary
representatives for the government assemblies.
The peasants meet first in village meetings and
choose delegates to primary convention, the
ToloStROi SkhOd, which in turn chooses dele
gates to a secondary convention. the district
elective assembly. and this last body elects mem
berS of the government assembly. As for the
worIlirgmcn, in shops and factories. every estab-
lishment with fifty more men is constituted
workshop assembly, and sends delegates TO a
wOrkmpn's elective assembly. which in, turn
chooses members Of the government assembly.
Now, the elections If which we are at present
hearing are not those o. members of the DouIna
the government assemblies electoral colleges.
hut merely of delegates 10 some of these sub
ordinate elective assemblies. Appreciation of
that fact materially lessons the apparent sig
nifcance of some of the returns we have been
getting. II does not 50 greatly matter if Ger
tain community elects n radical by vote of
thousand TO one for the man thus elected will
be only one in an assembly of scores. which will
elect a delegate 10 another assembly of other
scores. which latter assembly will elect single
delegate to Il government assembly. which finally
will elect certain number of members to the
Douma Not until the government assemblies
themselves are chosen will it he possible to esti-
mate in any measure the trend of the elections,
and not until those assemblies in turn perform
their electoral functions shall we know how the
new Douma is to be constituted.
New-York tribune., 1907-01-24
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY.

GFTom The Tribune Bureaul
Washington. Jan. 23--Hosts entertaining dinner
parties tonight almost without exception later took
their guests the charity ball given for the benefit
of the Childrens Hospital II Of the most
successful ever given. Mrs. GaH. Mrs William
Merriam. Mrs. c. c. Glover. Mrs c. H. Davis and
Mrs MCGUIRE received the guests. and Captain
Curtis Gilmore floor manager Among the
patronesses most Of whom were present with par
ties were Mrs Fairbanks Baroness Rosen, Wis
countess AOki. Mrs. Straus. Mrs William COrCoran
EUstis. Mrs. Richardson Glover, Mrs Theodore
shonts Mrs. John r. Mclean. Mrs. Richard H.
Townsend. Mrs. Herbert Wadsworth and Mrs.
Alger All Of the debutantes OF the season were
present, well the dancing OF the dtplO-
matic corps.
Vice-President and Mrs Fairbanks were the
guests OF honor tonight OF Representative and
New-York tribune., 1907-01-24

that besides being inaccessible TO any ordinary
influences from without in the performance OF
his political duties be also belonged tO' that
''very small class of Senators and Representa-
'tives who do not believe IT is proper for them
Ito he Influenced by the views Of the ExeCu-
five Department" On further analysis it ap-
peared that the very small class was indeed
very small since il included only Mr.. Bailey
himself and some distinguished Virginia fore
runner OF nearly century agO-Presumably the
Hon. John Randolph.
Texas has never had Superman in politics
before and Is apparently lOath to lose him.
Otherwise il is difficult 10 explain the readiness
of the Legislature at Austin 10 re-elert Mr.
Bailey first and save his character afterward.
Supermen are mot TO be judged like ordinary
mortals. Nj. Bailey has given the public va
rious explanations of his relations with the oil
monopoly. They do not all agree. but let that
pass Even the greatest statesmen may have
poor memories. But there is one explanation
which goes to the root of the matter. The
Texas Senator is convinced that all these re-
cent nvasions Of his private affairs are the
work OF socialists and anarchists Every
socialist in Texas" he told MS recently. lis
standing on the street corners and revillng
"me" And of the participants in one of the
and-Bailey meetings in Houston he said: There
"were at least dozen who on their counte-
'nances alone would have been received with
'out any examination whatever into any So
"ciety 0f anarchists in Chicago" One cannot
he a Supermnn without exciting jealousy and
envy. Texas has rallied 10 the support of virtue
assailed. She stands by her lone Superman if
for no other motive than to discourage back
biting and 10 rehukc socialism" and AN
8rrhy"
New-York tribune., 1907-01-24

The proposed nautical museum to encourage
and advance the knowledge Of navigation would
be a valuable institution in great maritime
city like New York. But question the wis
dom of Bronx Park site. Bronx Park IS
comparatively small. and 1t has already many
buildings in it as are compatible with its beauty
park Besides. why should nautical mu-
scum be built so far inland? Is not the water
front more natural site? There is Pelham
Bay Park with miles of waterfront: is not that
a more fitting place for museum designed to
interest the men who go down to the sea in
ships. who aspire to do in an amateur
way?
New-York tribune., 1907-01-24
THE REOORnERSHIP.

There Is no reflection upon his fitness for the
office in saying that n prompt test should be
made of the legality Of Justice McAvoy's cleo
tiOn to the office of Recorder. One of his first
decisions should he appealed to a higher court
on the ground that the Board of Aldermen acted
without authority in filling the vacant Recorder
has any such authority or not, and the decision
Of the Court Of Appeals will be required to set
tie the question Undoubtedly. before the con-
sOlidatiOn of the city the filling of vacancy in
the RecOrdership was left by law with the
Board of Aldermen, then representing terri
tory cOterminous with the territory over
which the Recorder had jurisdiction. But
now, while the Recorders jurisdiction re-
mains confined to New York County. the board
is made up of the representatives OF three other
cOunties-Kings, Queens and Richmond Why
should the aldermen from those three counties
participate In the election of Judge Of New
York County: The old law prescribing the
method Of filling Il vacant Recordership has not
been changed. but does not the changed consti-
tuition Of the board affect the situation? That
is the legal question involved
If the old law applies and the choice OF the
Recorder is vested in the board, then the law
should be amended Whatever administrative
functions he may once have had that made It
desirable in the interests of home rule TO pro-
vide for the filling of vacancy by local body
the Recorder is a purely judicial officer
differing only in title from the other judges sit
ting IN the Court of General Sessions. Properly
a vacancy in the RecOrdershp like any other
vacancy on that bench should be filed by the
Governor
New-York tribune., 1907-01-24
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.
From The Tribune Rursau.1

IFrom The Tribune BuEeaul
Washington. Jan 23.-The German Ambassador
and Baroness Won Sternburg had as their guests at
a dinner at the embassy tonight the Russian AM
bassador and Baroness ROsen Secretary and Mrs.
Shaw Senator and Mrs CUllom, Senator and Mrs.
Spooner. Senator and Mrs. Burrows. Representa-
tive and Mrs. Cassells. Mrs Nicholas Fish. Miss
Kean. Miss Gwynn Miss Foraker. the charge
d'affaires for Great Britain, Esme Howard; Mr.
KrOupensky. of the Russian Embassy, and Mr. Won
Radowitz. second secretary. and Mr. Won Schubert.
attache, of the German Embassy
cable dispatch from the newly appointed Span
ish Minister Ramon Pima. announces that he will
reach Washington on February 2S immediately
upon his arrival Senior Pastor. charge danaires.
will take leave OF four months taking his Amert-
can bride TO visit his family in Spain.
New-York tribune., 1907-01-24

Mrs. James R. Mann. To meet them we're Senate,
and Mrs Hopkins. Representative and Mrs. Siblev
Representative Mckinley, Mrs John A Logan
Miss Maths and Mr.. and Mrs. Rudolph Kaufn,ann
Mr. and Mrs. Hennen Jennings and Senator an,
Mrs Bulkeley also entertained guests at dinner to-
night
Senator and Mrs. Rayner entertained one or ~.
largest dinner parties Of the evening. having amon
their guests Secretary and Mrs. Straus. Senator
and Mrs Foraker, Senator and Mrs Blackbrrr
Senator Daniel. Senator Bacon. Senator McCrsarv
Senator Foster. the Minister from Cuba and sshora
Quesada. Lieutenant and Mrs Timmons CoIonar
and Mrs. Archibald Oracle. Mrs PostIethwaite NJ
and Mrs Perry Belmont and Mr.. and Mrs. HWfa
Williams. of London
New-York tribune., 1907-01-24
PRAISE OF GENERAL Lee APPRECIATED

To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: Permit 20 give nv hearty apnrovaI to
your editorial OF this morning upon Robert E Lee
There are few men who think represented as
much that IS good and best IN mankind as dld Lee
Some people look upon him even now only as a
ueIeated Confederate general. but, although my
family during the war were redhot Abolitionisrs
Yet cannot think Of him anything but a strong
true; manly american He fought for what seemed
TO him 10 be the right. but when he found that his
@ SauSe Was not that, ne gave up as manfuIy and
His private life was clean hts record al a soIdfsr
honorable; he played the game Of war fairly and
when he was beaten he accepted the decisi0n and
old not complain OF his III fortune.
l regard him as one of the many great men OF
our country who may well be held up as EXAMPLES
WeSterleigh. Jan. 1e. 1907.