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The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-11
A NEW EMPLOYERS LIABILITY ACT.

There will be no lack of effort to
make up for the decision of the SUI
preme Court declaring the employers
liability act unconstitutional. Senator
Knox has already introduced a bill in
ended to meet the defects of the de-
funct act and 1t is now in the hands
of the judiciary committee. and the
President, it is said. IS about to sub
init a measure answering the same
purpose with a special message urging
it's speedy passage.
Senator Knox's bill applies to all
common carriers engaged in COM
MERGE to which the regulative power
of Congress extends under the Con-
stitution of the United States" which
is broad and comprehensive enough,
but leaves the question open to perhaps
hamper each litigant as TO just what
does come under the constitutional
regulating power Of Congress instead
of defining It.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-11
pRuss1A's ELECTORAL SYSTEM.

There are three classes of voters in
Prussia and they are defined by divid-
ing the amount of taxes received by the
government into three classes. A few
wealthy individuals pay one-third of
the taxes and select men from among
their rank as final voters. Another and
larger class also pay a third of the
taxes and choose an equal number of
final voters. The great bulk of the pop
ulation, including the labor element, Sc
lect another third of the final voters.
The total number of final voters then
proceed to elect the representatives in
the Prussian Landtag, and as the two
wealthy classes are always united the
third and popular class has no show
and has no representative in the Land
tag.
Manhood suffrage is unknown in
Prussia. The suffrage is based entirely
on wealth. 1t is against this injustice
that the populace of Berlin protested
and that there we're disturbances in
the capital yesterday. But as long as
Germany has a vast military system to
prop up the electoral system with its
bayonets, popular protest avails MOTH
ing.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-11
A RAILROAD RATE PUZZLE,

A most peculiar complication has
grown out of a decision in a New York
municipal court to the effect that a
railroad is liable to a shipper for the
difference between the amount charged
him as freight by a railroad on some
carloads of hay and the price the ship
per claimed the conpany's agent had
agreed upon as the rate. The company
shows that it charged the published
rate filed with the Interstate Com
merce Commission, and contends that
to carry out the Judgment of the court
both the company and the shipper
would be subject to heavy fines for re-
batting and receiving rebates, respec-
lively. which is obvious.
When the case reaches the higher
court, the chief point in this little case is
apparently about the same as that upon
which the great Standard Oil rebate
case. involving fines a~ggregating $780,
100000. hinges, and that Is the question
of what constitutes the proper filing of
a rate. win the appellate division OF
the New York Supreme Court be able
to solve the problem?
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-11
CORPORATIONS N

According to a decision of Judge
tanning, Of the United States District
Court in Trenton, the oleomargarine
act is practically not worth the paper
on which it is printed when it is vio-
lated by a corporation. The penalty
clause of the act calls for a fine and
instead of cor" Imprisonment. Con-
viction therefore demands both penal
ties and the court cannot infict only
one.
A corporation cannot we'll be i'm
~prisoned, therefore a corporation can
not be punished for violation of the
oleomargarine law. Other acts con-
tain the penalty clause expressed in
the same way, so that unless corpora
tions are to enjoy exemption under
them there must be some wholesale
o~verhauling of Federal statutes. 1t is
strange that in the long struggle TO
get the oleomargarine act on the stat
ute books the trainers lost sight of the
principle to which Judge tanning has
called attention. What a difference
one little word can makei
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-11
A SENSIBLE PARsoN.

When one Of Henry Ward Beecher's
congregation objected to the introduce
ton in the church of operatic
airs as hymn tunes, that emil
nent divine is said to have re-
torted: "Vhy should we let the devil
have all the good tunes?' The Rev. DR..
John L. Scudder, of Jersey City, goes
further and asks: why should we let
the devil have all the good times?"
He advocates the playing of such sports
as have been hitherto regarded as rep
rehensible among Observation-Disclosures.
and bowling. and cards-under the au-
spices of the church. Life is not a
funeral procession, he argues. Men
crave amusement and good-fellow ship,
rightly and naturally, and it is not
easy to find them in "a prayer palace
with a sewing circle attached" such
as most churches are. The church
should change It's tactics and provide
the amusements that men would not
look to the saloons to furnish IL they
could find them in the church.
It is probable that DIR. Scudder's
liberal views will not find support
among hidebound men of creed and
dogma who do so much to make re-
iieious activities unattractive to the
young. and who still seem to be in the
ascendanev among elergymen. Every
one else. however, will wish that his
ideas may be generally adopted.
Amusement innocent in themselves
take on an aspect of iniquity or decencs
according to environment. If the
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-11
CURTAILMENT CUTS
REVENUES MILLION A MONTE

WASHINGTON, Jan. u,-"This Con-
gress has been in actual session only
a few days, and more than 500 bills
already have been introduced for the
expenditure of about $4,000 900 in pro-
posed public buildings. If 20 per cent.
OF that is appropriated during the SEES
sion, the people may consider them
selves lucky"
The foregoing statement was made
yesterday by Chairman Bartholdt, OF
the House committee on public build
ings and grounds.
Government revenues" said he. ARE
falling short at the rate of about
81 1000, 900 a month, due to the curtail-
ment of luxury purchases by h people
in this time of financial disturbances
| and commercial depression.
1--WE face a heavy deficit at the close
of the fiscal year. Estimates for run
ming expenses for the fiscal year end
ing June 20, 1899, must be cut down.
: and original legislation, such as bills
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-11
ON COLLEGES AND MARRIAGE.

The relation Of a college education
to celibacy and marriage has given
considerable concern to the president,
L. Clark Seelye, of one of our foremost
colleges for women. DR.. Seelye favors
relaxing the entrance requirements at
Smith on the ground that their severity
and the amount of time required in
preparation for them deter or at least
postpone the marriage Of college
women. His attitude Is not encourag-
ing to those who believe a woman's
rightful sphere is in the pursuit of a
career" But to those others of us
who think that in motherhood and the
home lies the highest fulhllment of
her destiny. his pronunciamento will
be especially gratifying.
That college education does postpone
marriage in many cases is true and
the longer that fateful event is post
poned the less likely 1t is that it will
ever take place is equally beyond dis
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-11
CAN THE STATE SELL ITS SCHOOL
LANDS?

There has always been serious doubt
the right to ALLEVIATE forever lands ded-
icated to the State school fund. For
mer Supreme Court Justice Van Syckei
has strongly expressed this doubt, and
there are judges who believe it is of the
utmost importance to ascertain whether
the State. having devoted the riparian
lands to the school fund, can sell these
lands and thus deprive the fund of a
valuable asset.
The Constitution says that the fund
for the support of free schools land all
money, stock and other property which
might hereafter be appropriated for
that purpose shall be securely invested
and remain a perpetual fund, and sit
shall not be competent for the Legisla-
ture to borrow, Appropriate or use the
said fund or any part thereof for any
other purpose under any pretense what
ever" In the bill of rights and privi-
leges it is declared that mo donation CT
land" shall be made to 'any rpora
tion whatever" The reports Of the
State Riparian Commission acknowl-
edge that riparian lands have been vir-
tually donated by the commission to
private corporations. al nominal prices,
the excuse being a policy of encourage
ment of the location of industries in the
State.
The State school fund belongs to the
people, and the great asset of this fund
is the riparian domain that the Legis-
lature and successive commissions have
recklessly and In some cases ~corruptIy
disposed of. If it Is in accordance with
the Constitution that the lands belong
ing to the fund can be granted away
by the wholesale by irresponsible ccm-
m~issioners the fact should be estab-
lished by a decision of the Court of
Errors and Appeals. Perhaps the court
will adjudicate upon the question in the
case OF the Atlantic City ocean park
which has just been argued before the
judges.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-11

proposing the erection of public build
ings, must be held in with a tight rein.
1T is true that the government ball
ance sheet shows a handsome surplus
of something like $3.50, 600, 900. but it
must be remembered that a great deal
of that money is distributed among the
national banks. and that they are not
at this time in a position to hand it
over.
The 600-odd bills that have been in
troduced thus far call for the appro-
priation of about 100000 0 for public
grounds and buildings throughout the
country, and, approximately, $4,000 900
for the same purposes in the District Of
Columbia, where there exist crying
needs"
Chairman Bartholdt organized his
committee yesterday by the appoint
ment of various subcommittee. All
bills for the purchase of grounds or the
erection of public buildings in Pennsyl-
vania will be passed upon by a sub
committee headed by Representative
Rodenburg, Of ItIinots.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-11
THE Loss OF RAILROAD TAX.

Mayor Wittpenn, OF Jersey City, pre-
diets a loss of $500. 900 of tax revenue
for Jersey City by reason of the de-
cision by the Court of Errors and APP
peais hat se~cond-class railroad prop
erty must be assessed by the same
authority that assesses frst-class rail-
road property. The great bulk of sec
ond-ciass property is in Hudson County.
The local assessors last year raised the
State Board valuations on this prop
erty about $40 0 ,Oo0. which, at 2 per
cent, would amount to $4,000 a year,
or less than half the amount named.
The local assessment this year was still
higher.
But the State board will hardly have
the effrontery to go back to its assess
ment figures of three years ago., or
make any radical reduction in the de-
clared local assessments on second-class
property in Newark and other taxing
districts. These assessments have
established new and accepted standards
of value. To materially cut them
down and thus deprive municipalities
of a considerable tax revenue would
make the State too hot to hold the
State Board of Assessors. There would
be a determined popular movement to
put the board out of existence and
business,
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-11

1t is idle for the opponents of Secre-
tary Taft to belittie his hold Upon the
voting masses of the country. The
crowd in the Cooper Union in New
York last night, where the secretary
delivered an address, and the crowd
that failed to secure entrance, attested
his popularity right "in the enemy's
country" in New York city. With
Foraker hopelessly floored in Ohio and
Taft receiving a genuine ovation in
New York, the prospects of knocking
the sturdy secretary out of the Presa-
dental nomination are not as good as
some folks would like them to be-.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-11

CHESTER, Pa, Jan. 11.-Henry +
Kenney, president of the Delaware
Railroad Company. who died yesterday
at his home in Ridley Park, had a ma
tional reputation. It was due to a mix
ture of railroad knowledge and Yankee
s%hrewdness on the part of MI. Kenney
that landed Abraham Lincoln, then
President-elect of the United States
safely in Washington at the outset OF
the Civil War. Lincoln went to Phila-
delphia from the West, met Alexander
X. Mcclure and other well-known Re-
publicans. He was due in Washington
to be inaugurated as President, but
the party men had information that
the Southern sympathizers IN Baltimore
proposed to either kidnap Lincoln and
carry him South as a prisoner or else
assassinate him as he stepped from the
cars at Baltimore.
The Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore Railroad Company at that
time was the connecting link between
Philadelphia and Baltimore. The road
ended at what is known as President
Street Station in the latter city. 1t
was necessary to ride across the city
of Baltimore in carriages to the Cam
den station of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad. which was the only line lead
ing to the National Capital.
Mr.. Lincoln was at the Union League
clubhouse at Eleventh and Chestnut
streets, Philadelphia, in consultation
with a number of men who had talked
with the Philadelphia and Baltimore
Railroad officials about the safe con-
duct of the President-elect. Henry r.
Kenney was superintendent of the rail-
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-11
Interstate Commerce Act.

To the Editor Of the Evening Star:
Will you kindly give me an idea Of the
provisions of the Interstate Commerce
act? ]. M. F.
rThe Interstate Commerce act is the
name of ar act Of Congress approved
February 4, 1887. and officially designated
as IAN ac. to regulate commerce" The
name is due to the fact that the law
rests upon the constitutional provision
which empowers Congress TO regulate
commerce between the States. Tho law
subjects to its provisions all common
carriers by rail, or by rail or water, which
engage in interstate business.
1t prohibits special rates to individuals,
and declares that no undue or unreason-
able preference shall be given to any
particular locality or to any particular
description of traffic. 1t prohibits higher
rates for a short distance than a long
distance OF the same route, when the
shorter distance is included in the former,
unless under exceptional circumstances
and with authority Of the commission. 1t
makes unlawful n arrangements be-
tween roads whereby traffic is pooled and
the proceeds divided. 1t prescribes that
all roads shall make their rates public:
that they shall not depart from such pub
lie rates nor change them without due
notice. The act creates a commission Of
five members. with power to require re-
to hear complaints n make investiga-
tons relative to any alleged infraction of
the act.--Ed.l
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-11
DEATH OF MAN WHO SAVED
LINCOLN FROM KIDNAPPERS

road, and Joshua Taggart was the
chief detective. The latter had a score
of men a. his command, and these
were assisted by Federal Secret Service
men. Mr.. Kenney was entrusted with
the work of decelving the Southern
sympathizers at Baltimore. He caused
a train to be made up publicly n the
hour for its departure was set. 1t was
said Mr.. Lincoln would take that train
for Baltimore. But Yankee-like, Super
intendent Kenney had a train made up
secretly. When all was in readiness
| Kenney appeared at the Union League,
tapped Mr.. Lincoln on the shoulder and
told him to follow him.
1t was a night of anxiety for all.
Lincoln reached Baltimore ahead of the
schedule time and finally was safe at
the national capital. This was a great
event for Mr.. Kenney.
The cause of the death of MI. Ken
ney was pneumonia. He was 81 years
of age. Mr.. Kenney came to this sec
ton many years ago with President
Hinckley and other New England men,
who took control of the Philadelphia,
Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad be-
fore the breaking out OF the Civil War,
and acted as superintendent of the
road until 1t was absorbed by the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company in 1882.
Later Mr.. Kenney was made president
of the Delaware Railroad.
Mr.. Kenney went to Ridley Park
about thirty years ago, and was a fac
tor in the development of the bor-
ough, having served as chief burgess of
the town. He devised the pin sys-
tenn" of marking on a board the loca-
ton of trains on the main lines OF the
railroads. 1t was adopted by A. j.
Cassatt for the Pennsylvania Railroad.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-11
PEOPLE OF NOTE.

Representative Bird S. Mcclure, of
oklaboma. has been quite a wanderer.
porn in Illinois. he went to missouri
with his parents when 10 years of age
tben to Kansas. and later to Indian
territory and finally to his present
State.
Cyril A. Pearson, new proprietor OF
the London Times, also controls the
Standard, the Express, the Evening
STANDARD and the st. James Gazette, all
leading London d~ailies; FIVE dailies in
other cities. four weekly newspapers,
nine weekly periodicals and six month
lies. He is believed to be a multi
millionaire, vet twelve years ago he
was earning 5 1880 a year as manager
of Tit-Bits. Pearson is now in his 40th
year, and Is the son of a poor clergy
DR.. Francis I. Burnell, the new
Mayor of South Norwalk, Conn. was
put in an embarrassing position whe
he came to read his message to the
Board of Couneilmen He was COM
PEELED to deliver it through an i'm
promptu speech. his pet collie having
eaten the written message.
All of the private deer in William
G. RockefeIler's deer park at Green
witch, Conn, have been purchased by
a wealthy Pennsylvania, name not an
nounced. There are thirty-two in all.
A curious distinction belongs to Miss
Elizabeth NJ. Kilbourne, of Winsted,
Conn. She claims TO be the hrst
woman who ever took a stitch on the
sewing machine. She was formerly a
teacher in Hartford. where she visited
Elias Howe's shop and was given a
chance to try his new invention. lie
told her she was the first of her sex
to use the machine which has done sc
much to relieve the household toll OF
women,
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-11

Mr.. Bryan is quoted as saying that
in his opinion Uncle Joe Cannon,
Speaker of the House, will be the Re-
publican candidate for President, and
that he, Mr.. Bryan, will be his Demo-
cratic opponent. The wish seems father
to the thought. Mr.. Cannon is not a
popular idol by any means, and, except
in his own State, has nc well defined
strength to give him prominence as a
presidential candidate, The familiar
cognomen given to Speaker Cannon
does not nave the human interest that
attached to the "Uncle Abe" of Abra-
ham Lincoln. That had all the v
of the soil and the people. Uncle Joe
Cannon is not of the Lincoln type, and
the prefix to his name is of Washing
ton origin and has no meaning away
from the national capital.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-11
Railroad ~E1mployees.

To the Editor Of the Evening Star:
What is the entire number of men en-
ployed on American railroads? A. H. s.
tAltogether. more than a million. The
latest figures we have show that nearly
one-half the total are employed on track
and roadbed; in round numbers, 5000 Sec
ton foremen, with go, 200 men in their
gangs" 1900 switchmen, fiagmen and
watchmen; $500 men in work train crews
and 131 600 laborers. There are nearly 30,
600 m~achinists, 5000 carpenters and 12o, 000
shopmen of other grades. Station agents.
etc. number about III, 600; conductors, g.
coo; brakemen. 5000; engineers and fire.
men. $1,000. In the offices there are nearly
10000 clerks, nearly 1900 dispatchers and
telegraph operators and 5000 general adj
ministrative officers. 1t keeps a big part
of our working population busy to run the
$40. 30S.0 29. 032 worth OF railroad property Of
the United States.~Ed.1
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-11
4 Minor,n Enll.tment.

To the Editor Of the Evening Star:
If a minor enlists In the army without
his parents consent may he be released
from service L. L. r.
GSections 8 and 4 Of the articles Of war
rule that any officer who knowingly en-
lists any minor under 10 years Of age, or,
without the written consent of parents or
guardians, any persons between Is and q,
must be tried by court-martial. and may
be dismissed from the service. After
being mustered in, no one can be dis
charged before his term-of service is up
except by order of the President, the Sec
rotary of War, the commanding officer Of
a department, or by sentence Ct a genera
eourt-martial.-Eh.1
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-11
The Year,. suicldes.

To the Editor OF the Evening Star:
Can you give me the suicide statistics
for last year in this country? r. b. j.
Suicides in the United States continue
to increase, and also continue in excess OF
other forms of violent death. The hGin-
Der for 1907 was 10,7S2, according to re-
ports from all sections of the country.
Until 1906 about twice as many men COM
Initted suicide as women. but last year
there were three times as many men, the
record showing SIS men and 1884 women
suicides. Causes we're as follows: De-
spondency, 4,02S; insanity, 1,01O: domestic
infelicity. 2,172; disappointment in love.
!. 213; iil-health. ssh; liquor. iaS; business
losses, 1913; unknown, 7S6. In killing them
selves 1917 took poison and 1854 used re-
volvers. Besides these, liza used the rope.
ga drowned themselves. sV1 cut their
threats, 81 threw themselves in front OF
trains, 40 stabbed themselves, 81 jumped
fIom windows OF roofs. There were fewer
lynchings in 1907 than in the last twenty
years. The total is So, as compared with
80 in 1S06.-Ed.1
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-11

"Wbat makes the fishes look 50 sadr'
said Landsmen -on-Psrade.
They're feelin' 30, they're feeiin' so,
the Nature FTaker said.
but then, what makes EN- look so thinF
said Landsfnen-On Parade.
''A-starvi,t'. sir, a-starvin', SIR the Ma
ture Faker said.
They've got the LuAtsnia and others on
the ocean
SO bloomin' big an steady that they
don't ave any motion,
An the folks who go a~-traveiin' a v 'eld
back their devotion,
So there stint no one TO feed EN- in the
motnin.'" Judge.
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pute. 1t is also true that the delay is
likely to figure more Importantly in
the woman's case than in the mans.
For all this. however, there is COM
pensation in the thought that the
greater the delay the more will be the
experience of the world and the wis.,
dom that comes of it to make the
choice of a life partner a wise n