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ILL.

Thus the matter stood when, Just before
the close of the civil war. Congress adopted
the twenty-second joint rule, a measure
which MIR. Dougherty considers Of doubly
doubtful validity For this reason; The
power of Congress 10 constitute itself by
legislation judge OF disputed eturns is
questionable. and it ia equally questionable
whether a joint rule not requiring even the
approval Of the President could constitu-
tionally be employed as a substitute for
legislation. From generation TO generation
it was predicted that trouble would ensue,
and Congress was urged by some persons to
pass a general enactment not only prescrib-
ing how State oeruncates should be anthem
ticated and State votes counted. but also
creating some tribunal to decide the various
questions that might from time to time
arise Others argued thai in the legislation
of 1892 and 1s45 fixing the day for the choice
Of electors and the day OF their assembling
and defining now their appointment should
be certified. Congress had exhausted its
power. As q matter OF fact. Congress never
passed a general law on the subject Until
1887. Meanwhile, ten years before, the often
predicted danger had arisen when action
on the vote Of a single State was bound
TO decide the result Of a Presidential con-
test. II 10 we'll known that the emergency
was met by al eXpedient OF doubtful con-
stitutionality-the creation OF an electoral
commission. The crisis OF 1877 emphasized
the necessity either OF adequate legislation
or Of a constitutional amendment. should
such legislation be deemed beyond the
province Of Congress. The outcome OF ten
years debate is the statute Of February 3.
1887. which, 30 far as it recognizes each
State to be the sovereign and exclusive
judge over the appointment Of its electors.
is admitted by the author OF this book 10
be in ~undoubtud harmony with the Con-
| stitution, He points out. however. that IL
raises the perennial question whether
{, Congress has any power 80 20 leRislate as
10 vest in itself the decision OF disputes
over returns, for Congress thus becomes an
! ultimate President maker. In Mr.. Dougher-
tvs judgment. also. the statute named ia
not only cumbersome in its details but
defective In failing to provide how the vote
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I

In a chapter on Famine administration
our author wonders how many home
keeping Englishmen pay the faintest atten-
ton 10 the short paragraph which appears
weekly IA London newspapers during the
winter months and which is headed In
dian Crop Prospects" II is doubtless true
that only a small minority even notice the
publication and that still fewer pause to
resd II atteutively. To scores Of millions
~ King Edwards subjects. however, the
IMPORT Of the paragraph X Of infinitely
higher consequence than the movements Of
princes, the results Of wars or the outcome
nj elections. The failure Of the summer
rain IN the plains of India means nothing
less than ruin Ia countless communities,
tho devastation Nv starvation and disease
of miIiIons of cattle and sheep and goats
and the spread Of misery, famine and death
throughout large sections Of the Indian
Empire. IT the Christmas rains fail also.
A. or late years they continually do through
ont Ralpntaua and the Puniah. the SUI
rcring is intensified tenfold. This awful
condition Of things has now existed ~ a
more ar loss acute form for eleven years,
with 4 break of "A single twelVemonth in
10000, and tho non-cNistPnce Of = perma-
nent Mansion House Famine Fund must
NOT he supposed To signify that thousands
upon thousands Of poor natives are not
everv yosr in a state bordering upon utter
destitrIt'on through a sca rcity Of food staples
A. The same time the author NJ this book
bears witness that since the great famine
Of 1892 200 Indian famine organization
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Presidency and by Mcknight In his book
on sThe Electoral System Of the United
States There was room for a later n
moro nearly exhaustive examination OF the
matter, and his we fortunately have in
the volume Of more than 400 pages entitled
The Electoral System Of the United States,
by j. HAMPpEN DoUoHERTY (Putnams'.
What we have here is a detailed history
Of the working Of our Federal electoral
system, together with a study Of the perils
that have attended it's operation. an analysis
Of the several efforts by legislation to avert
these perils. and finally a proposed remedy
by amendment Of the Constitution. Aside
from the lucidity by which the analysis is
marked and the cogency with which the
author enforoes the necessity of a constl-
tutional amendment, Mr.. Dougherty dem
onstrates his intimate knowledge OF our
constitutional history by recalling many
interesting incidents overlooked or for
gotten by a majority Of those who believe
themselves oonversant with the operation
Of our Federal organic law. II is TO some
Of these incidents that we purpose 10 direct
attention, although our principal aim is to
outline the ground on which the author
bases his assertion that a readjustment OF
our method Of eleoting Presidents by means
of a constit utional amendment is indis-
pensable, Il
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The KEYNOTE Of the boob before MS is
struck in the we'll founded assertion that
while the early metamorphosis Of the
electoral system is familiar to all who
possess the most superficial acquaintance
with American history il is much less
generally appreciated that the weakest
part Of that system is the provision regard
inp the electoral count. In consequence
Of the lack Of dehniteness in this provision
the republio has twice been brought to the
brink OF revolution. The Constitution pre-
scribes that lists Of the votes OF electors
in the several States, properly authen-
ticated by the State executive officer. shall
be transmitted in sealed packages to the
President Of the Senate; that they shall
be opened by him in the presence Of the
Senate and Of the House Of Representatives.
and that "the votes shall then be counted =
This mandate, couched as it is in the
psssive form, fails to declare explicitly
who shall count the votes II is. says
Won Hoist. "a formula that forces us to
suppose that, according to the views OF
the trainers OF the Constitution, the ques-
ton was one simply Of addition More
over. the practice Of the fathers-that ia
TO say, Of those who themselves had been
members Of the Philadelphia convention
or we're intimately acquainted with the
authors of our Federal organic law-seems
to have imposed the duty OF counting
upon the President Of the Senate. IL
therefore may he argued forcibly that
their action was equivalent TO an exposition
Of the meaning Of this provision Of our
Federal organic law by its creators and
contemporaries. BY degrees, however, the
two houses deposed the President Of the
senate from this vitality important Office,
first. 10y appointing tellers and passing
resolutions as TO the mode Of counting, in
which more or less Of power over the count
was assumed; later. by the adoption tdurins
the civil war; Of the twenty-second joint
| rule, and, more recently, by the special
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In the cha pter which bears the caption
Problems ~ tho INorthw%e stcrnI Frontier
the belief is expressed that among the many
beneficial changes in Indian administration
with which history will credit Lord Curzon
none has been more quickly justified 10y
results thar the partition OF tho Punjah.
There ia no doubt that in the DAYS before
that partition was effected tho Lieutenant
Governor was greatly hampered by the
double task OF working out two sets of
problems and administering the affairs 81
Two races N utterly unlike as those east
and west Of the River Indus. His task be-
came more formidable when the frontier
policy prescribed by the Home Government
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The Latest Book About india aud Burma.
Ito most recent record Of travel In the
Ankio-Indian Empire and Its Burmese de-
kNadAncios will be found in the book by
1eK MALCOLM (E. P. Dutton d Coz. II 10
be true that the knowledge gRTnored by q
traveller is but q dividend on the intellectual
capital with which he started. the author
Of this narrative has a right TO expect an
income exceptionally large. for be 9 TO
India equipped with q great store OF infor-
nation. He therefore knew exactly what
70 look for and was able 20 interpret visible
phenomena in the light Of history. I'm
pressions formed under suoh conditions are
peculiarly illuminative and instructive. and
we would earnestly urge all readers inter-
ested in the British Empire not 20 overlook
this volume. In order TO exemplify the
attraotiveness and the value OF the work in
the short compass Of this notice we must
necessarily con1ne ourselves to a few OF
the many questions examined. and we have
chosen for the purpose out OF the twenty
SIX chapters the four which deal respectively
with the vice-regal position, the famine
administration and the problems of the
northwestern frontier OF India and the
northeastern border OF Burma. A word
also should be said about the extent to
which Bombay is competing with Lanca-
shire as a manufacturing centre.
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sphsrs Of infuenoe In tho I~ndo-Chinese
peninsula which falls to the Calcutta Gov
ernrnAnt AZ the mistress Of Burma. Those
who 'recall the events Of twenty years ago
will remember the searchlngs OF heart
which In Great Britain followed h annexa-
ton OF Upper Burma, the doubts OF those
who questioned the wisdom OF extending
Britain's imperial trust and the murmur-
ings OF the faint hearted. who asserted
that the white mans burden was already
too great. How can We it was argued.
with 30 small q force at our
control a region coterminous with the
vast and ~unexplored Chinese West, IN
habited by uncivilized tribes; and, il We
can hold 1t. will the outlay be remuneratlVef
With time has come a satisfactory answer,
The Shan States have since that date en-
joyed a period OF tranquility and OF just
government previously unknown; progress
is visible on every side. in the repression
by the tribal chiefs themselves OF murder
and marauding within their boundaries;
in the opening up OF roads and other chan
nels Of communication; in education, and
in the prosecution of the arts OF peace,
1t was to see for himself the complete vim
dication of Lord DUhferin's policy that Lord
Curzon arranged to visit Lashio, the capital
Of the country Of the northern Shans;
and also to give the far OF vassal princes
in hat quarter the long coveted opportun-
ity OF receiving the representative OF the
King-FmT error
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mn, Method Of choosing Presidents.

Not only have the authors Of comprehensive
histories Of the United States, like Bancroft,
Hildreth, and McMaster, directed attention
to the veak point in our Federal organic
Law. namely. the mode Of choosing a Presi-
dent. but the subject bias been discussed
at length in special treatisss, as for e1-
ample by stanWood In his History Of the
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w..

Among many minor questions OF ins
terest brought up in the book before III
attention is directed to a cdsus omiSsus
in our Federal organic law. 1t was pointed
out in THE Sun during the interval
which elapsed between the counting Of
the electoral votes which made Mr.. Garfield
President and the ensuing March 4, 1881,
that II the President-elect should die be-
fore he took the oath Of Office the Con-
stitution did not provide an occupant for
the post OF Chief Magistrate. Seventeen
years later Senator Hoar came to the con-
clusion that the point made by THE SIN
was we'll taken, and that there is no pro-
vision in the Federal organic law as 10
who should succeed 10 the Presidency
il the President-elect should die between
tine date OF the vote in the electoral colleges
and the inauguration. He read in the
Senate a letter from Mr.. Albert w. Paine
Of Maine, who pointed out that there is no
provision in the Constitution whereby in
the contingency named another President
| could be elected. and Congress could not
supply the deficiency, so that no Presi-
dent could afterward be legally or con-
stitutionally chosen. the only contingency
provided for being that of the death Of the
President, not that of the President-elect
The person chosen by the electors for inc
office Of President does not become such
until his inauguration in the subsequent
month Of March. Mr.. Paine went on 70
call attention to the fact that had Mr.. Blalna
been a nominee for the Presidency in lSa1
and been elected there would have been
no constitutional successor to President
Harrison, inasmuch as Mr.. Blaine's death
occurred on January Z, 1893. II is well
known that Blaine was strongly hacked
in the Republican national convention NJ
1892. and it has been alleged that nothing
but his explicit refusal TO accept Preclu1"1
his nomination that year.
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In the twenty-fourth chapter, headed
"Op the INortheasternl Frontier Of the
Analo-Indian Empire 10 discussed the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-13
JESSIE LINCOLN DIVORCED.
Husband Of Abraham Lincoln's
Granddaughter Gets Decree.

MT. PLEASANT, Iowa, February 13.-
Warren w. Beckwith, professional ball
player, was yesterday given a decree
divorcing Jessie Lincoln Beckwith, daugh-
ter Of Robert T. Lincoln. BY coincidence
the separation Of the matrimonial bonds
came on her grandfather's birthday. Beck
with charged desertion.
The deposition of Charlotte Rorgeson,
former housekeeper for the couple, showed
that Mrs. BeckWith, accompanied by her
two children, Mary and Warren, left her
husbands home in Riverside near Chicago,
in January, 1905, and went to her fathers
home, No. so Lake Shore Drive. Beckwith
was in Mt Pleasant at the time and when
he returned to Riverside in March Mrs.
Beckwith remained with her father.
Mrs. Beckwith entered an appearance,
and by way Of answer said that 1t was true
that she left her husband and that she
has now the custody Of her two children,
who are now living at the home of her
parents, where they receive the best of care
and attention.
She asserts that her husband has no home
except hotels and boarding houses in diff
ferent parts of the country and that she is
better situated than he is to care for the
children. The court gave Mrs. Beckwith
control Of the children. The couple eloped
and were married in 1897.
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II can't carry such question as this>in
my head" explained the district attorney.
Probably not" commented Mr.. Delmas
in tone Of tolerance.
Certainly not" rejoined Mr.. Jerome,
that would be an Illusion
There was considerable laughter.
Mr.. Jerome further objected to the ques
ton on the ground that it said White was
not visible to the young husband at the
Cafe Martin. Mr.. Jerome said there was
no such evidence.
Lets strike that out too" said Mr.. Del
mas.
Mr.. Jerome had still another objection.
The question declared that at Madison
Square Garden Thaw's eyes suddenly ."lit
upon White.
II don't want to appear captious." said
straight today"
Mr.. Delmas- made the question read
''Thaw saw White"
Delmas Comedies All.
Il must still object" said Mr.. Jerome
Ito the statement that Thaw pulled pis-
tol from his overcoat pocket. There is no
evidence where the pistol came from
Make it read pulled pistol" assented
Mr.. Delmas
Mr.. Jerome objected lastly to the state
ment that Thaw held up both arms after
shooting White, claiming the evidence was
that only one arm was up.
Mr.. Delmas ordered the court stenogra-
pher to make all the corrections, and then
asked DR.. Evans If he understood the ques-
ton as amended.
yes"
Here again Mr.. Jerome interrupted to in
sist that when the direct question was put
it should be in the language of the New
York statutes as to whether the man COM
hitting the act was capable. of knowing
whether 1t was right or wrong,
II will be glad to accede to the demand
Of the district attorney for the definition OF
insanity in the statutes Of this state. The
law Is so clear 1t cannot be improved upon,
certainly not for the purposes OF this de-
fense." said Delmas who then turned to
the witness and asked:
Doctor. after hearing this question and
reading these letters bearing In mind all
you have heard of this case that has been
introduced In evidence and excluding every
thing else, is 1t your opinion that the de-
PENDANT on the night of June 25 did or did
not know his act was wrong?"
Did Not Know Act Was Wrong.
Il did not believe that he knew the act
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The Golden Medical Discovery"
not only builds up the strength of
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stamps. Address Doctor Pierce as
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field, eSu,0

was wrong" answered Dr. Evans slowly
and distinctly.
Mr.. Jerome objected to the form Of the
answer, and to conform with the law Dr.
Evans repeated:
1T is my opinion he did not know the
act was wrong"
I'm your opinion. did he then know the
nature or qualities Of the actT
I'm my opinion he did not"
I'm your opinion. was his inability to
know the quality of the act or that 1t was
wrong due to the fact that he was labor
ing under a mental disease?
I'm my opinion it was"
This ended DR.. Evans examination for
the day.
Before adjourning Justice Fitzgerald sug-
gested to the attorneys the saving of time
in every possible way.
"Time may be saved" he said, "if these
letters, If they are to be examined by any
other expert, be given to him that they
may be read out of court. / would also
suggest that IL this hypothetical question
is to be asked again that a revised copy Of
It may be made in accordance with the
agreement reached today that time may be
saved in argument"
Court adjourned at 5:07 pm. until to-
day.
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ID given. then either honest claimants must
suffer hardship or wrongdoers must be per-
United to be the benedciaries Of their fraud
uient and illegal acts. From the standpoint
OF the public interest, failure to prevent
fraud OF this kind IL peculiarly serious be-
cause In 30 many cases the success Of the
'Irauouient claimants means the prevention
honest homeseeker. The earnest wish Of
the administration Is to discontinue the
advertisement Of fraud in connection with
the public land system; but the only way
to accomplish this is by putting~a stop to
the fraud itself.
lSigneO THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
The White House, February ID, 1907
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Rev. DR.. Conrad Clever, pastor Of Christ
Reformed Church, Hagerstown, Nd, was
given surprise sociable by his parishion-
ers at the church in honor of his fifty-nintf
birthday. The pastor and his family were
invited out to tea, and while they were alb
sent from the parsonage the members took
charge of the church. When the pastor
and his family returned they found the
members waiting for them.
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FOUND DEAD BY SHERIFF.
Brother and Sister With
out Lies Necessities.

FREDERICK, Md, February 13.-Charles
e. Bentz, about fOrty-eight years old, and
his sister, Miss Alice Bentz, several years
his junior, were found dead in their home,
on West Patrick street, yesterday after
noon life having been extinct for at least
two days.
Notwithstanding that they owned Jointly
about a dozen houses and possessed other
means, valued in all at $4,000, there Is
every indication that death resulted from
neglect to provide themselves with the neces-
saries of life. Mr.. Bentz and his sister
who are children Of the late Jacob E. Bentz,
lived alone and had little to do with their
neighbors. Since coming into the posses
sion of means Mr.. Bentz had lived the life
Of recluse. barely providing food and
clothing for himself and his sister.
Yesterday afternoon neighbors who had
not seen them since Saturday sent word to
ton. Finding the doors locked Mr.. Martz
and Deputy Sheriff Danner reached the
balcony on the second floor from the yard
by means of a ladder. and through a WIN
partly clad. In an adjoining room on an
other bed was found the body Of Miss
BentZ, fully dressed and wearing an old
overcoat belonging to her brother. The
body of the latter was slightly decom-
posed
coroner's jury was summoned by JUS
tice of the Peace c. H. Eckstein, and after
viewing the bodies the jurymen adjourned,
to assemble later to complete the inquest.
The rooms where the bodies were found
were scantily furnished and devoid of
everything in the way Of provisions. A
stove. with a small quantity of partly con-
sumed coal was In the room where Mr.
Bentz's body was found. The two were
the last members of their immediate family
and, were well known in Frederick. They
are survived by q few nieces and nephews,
several of whom are the children Of the
late Henry Bentz and reside in Baltimore.
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The New Dominican Treaty.

The new treaty with the Dominican re-
public, which reached the Senate yester-
day, was the subject of consideration by
the Senate committee on foreign relations
today, but owing to Senator Bacon's oppo-
sition no progress was made toward Sc
curing a favorable report. Mr.. Bacon finds
the new treaty Objectionable on the same
ground as the old, because he considers our
interposition In Dominican affairs unwar-
ranted.