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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-04-10
Four Days for 10000.

Four more District days are like
ly at this session. There may be
FIVE, if adjournment is not had
promptly on May 10, which is the
present plan. In that time what is
to be done in the House for the
District of Columbia must be done
or there must be a year of waiting.
Medieval darkness - disgraceful,
costly, criminal darkness-shrouds
our penal and correctional methods
here in the Capital. Our sole pur-
pose in trying men, if we consider
the law only, is to punish the guilty.
Such a purpose as protecting So
ciety against further assaults.
such a purpose as saving the com
munity the cost of further trials
and imprisonment, such a purpose
as upbuilding character and adding
to the earning power of the citizen
instead of tearing both down-from
our law it would seem these things
had never occurred to us.
In the year that is TO follow the
adjournment of this Congress $4,000
persons viii be tried in our Police
Court alone. No one knows how
many of them are first offenders.
But the number is surely not less
than third. In that one court,
therefore, we face the likelihood of
developing into hardened criminals
5000 citizens in the Forthcoming
summer and winter. Somewhat the
same number viii be exposed to
corresponding dangers or greater
ones in the criminal branches OF
the District Supreme Court. The
total will hardly be less than 10000
We are to lose all these.
Unless the law be changed, that
is. The commissioners have for
warded to the Senate District Com
mittee the draft of a bin to change
the law in this respect. The meas
ure is the fruit of careful delibera-
ton on the part of our District Su-
preIns Court, our Police Court, and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-04-10

our Corporation Counsel. No one
in Congress viii object to it-for
the cost of the probation officers
win be saved twenty times over in
court fees and jail keep. he only
thing needful TO safeguard 80
character of those 10000 men an
women like ourselves is this law.
And there are probably only four
days in which TO get the law
through the House.
If they are alive to the welfare of
the District, the proper committees
of the Bar Association, the Chamber
of Commerce, and the Board of
Trade, the District authorities, and
the whole body Of our citizens win
see to it that if the bin fails it viii
be through no fault OF the District
of Columbia.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-04-10
USE COLORED RODENTS
IN FIGHT ON PLAGUE

SAN FRANCISCO, April I0.-CoIored
rodents are 10 be introduced by Dr..
Rupert Blue. OF the Marine Hospital
Service. SO that he may better study
the plague situation in SaE Francisco.
He wants 70 know whether rats are
migrating from one district Of the city
to another. and if so. how rapidly
such miCratiOns are taking place For
this purpose he has ordered that a lot
OF rats shall be dyed red and liberated
in the Fifth district, which lies between
the western addition and the Richmond
district. Green ones are to be liberated
in the Fourth district. bounded bv
Market and Taylor streets, Pacific ave
nue. and OCtavia street
Once captured the rats will not be
killed unless infected, but released
again from the same district Rat
catchers when working in other dis
tricts Will be instructed TO keep special
watch for any red or green rats and
report Immediately where found and
the date Of capture.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-04-10
No Cause for Encouragement.

President Roosevelt and the sup
porters of his progressive policies
in legislation have no cause to COM
plain of the delays which are buffet
ing them along the devious course
of Congressional procedure. At
least the anti-injunction bill, and
the free pulp and paper measure,
and the bill for revision of the Sher-
man antitrust act, are making as
good progress as some other inn
portant measures which have been
before the country for rather a
longer time.
Thus the Senate Committee on
Commerce has reported favorably q
proposal strongly recommended by
the Secretary of the Treasury, for
a survey of a great proposed inland
waterway from Boston Bay to VIII
mington, \. c. This measure has
been before the country even longer
than any of the Presidents pet
measures, and is only just getting
out of a senate Committee.
It should be explained, perhaps,
that the Secretary of the Treasury
who strongly recommended this
measure was not George B. Cor
teIyou. He vas Albert Gallatin,
and he made the recommendation
considerably more than 1oG years
ago. The recommendation has been
looked upon as wise craftsmanship
ever since, and the proposal for a
survey has now been reported from
the Senate committee.
1t Will thus be seen that almost
any legislative proposal may be
expected to get a chance if it is
only patient enough. Messrs. Payne
and DalzeII, we opine, would almost
consent to tariff revision if the
country would give them as much
time and manifest as much patience
with them as it has displayed in
connection with this great Atlantic
coast canal project. Give them, say,
100 years to get it out of committee,
and then, suppose, fifty years more
TO rush it through the House, and
there is no reason, even under the
present rules of the Senate, why it
should not become law by January
/. 21O9.
Don't he discouraged.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-04-10
RAILROAD CHARGE
/. THOUGHT SUSTAINED
AdherentS of La Toilette
Pleased by Report on
Consolidation.

Two occurrences OF the last few days
have caused much comment as evidence
in support Of the charge put forth BY
Senator La Toilette in his recent
speech. that the great railroad groups
OF the country lately have been getting
so close together that they haye prac-
ticaIIy been consolidated.
The Senator charged that the Nor
gan-Hm group and the Standard on
Hartman group, which used 20 be bit
terIy opposed, now were practically
united. and working IN harmony. He
charged that the tendency Of the times
WAS to consolidation Of railroad and in
dustrial control
Immediately after this speech was de-
Iivered. the Interstate Commerce Com
mission put out a pamphlet, Special
Report No. i: Intercorporate Relations
Of Railways in the United States as OF
June 50 1906" The matter, Of course,
was prepared and in type long before
the La toilette speech was delivered
This pamphlet of fifty pages, issued
over the name OF Henry g. A ans,
statistician TO the commission, ives
the details Of the organizations OF a
large number of the great railroad prop
critics in the country: the Rock Island
Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard, Pennsyl-
vania. Reading. Queen and Crescent
Union Pacific, and other systems. show
ing the methods by which a small group
of men controlling a very sinai poL /
of the actual investment, hold comma :
ton Of huge properties. The oOcunlehl
was confirmation of the most sehsa-
+ionaI charges about financial control
Friends Of Senator Ia Toilette nave &C
cepted IL as demonstration, on the hlSl-
est offiCfal authority, OF all he charged
But Immediately following TINS pup,
1;cation came a curious incident IN wan
Street. The Erie's outstanding issue OF
sbor-r-tiue notes was about 10 fail due,
and there was no money to meet II II
IOOlypd like a receivership, when sud
denly r. H Hartman appeared Win d
proposal 10 advance $6.oO0,VJO 70 toe Ille
prOpertV over the crisis.
The Erie long has been Morgan - nm
proDerty 1t was rated as decidedly an
auti-Harriman road, and the lacL IhsAD
Hartman some time 2So became a 81
rector in II was supposed TO Indicate
that he was making 9. fight Tor con-
troll But that there was anything IKE
AGREEMENT between him and the Nor
gan interests nobody dreamed
The incident is taken 20 mean exact
" what Senator La Toilette charged
that the Hill-Morgan group an the
Standard Oil-HaTriman cOterle nave
composed their differences. and now are
working IN close harmony.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-04-10
LIABILITY BILL
UP TO PRESIDENT
Measure Expected to Be-
come a Law This
Week.

President Roosevelt IS expected to
have the Sterling employers liability
bill in his hands today. BY the end o.
this week. II is probable that the meas
ure will be a law.
Without making q change IN the
House bill. the Senate passed the en-
ployers' liability bill yesterday after
noon, following a iYe-hour debate. The
passage Of this bin by Congress marks
the first response 10 the Presidents
recommendation in his recent special
messages. However. the leaders in
Congress say they intended all along 10
put a bill on this subject through.
whether the President recommended II
or not
One feature or a sensational nature
marked the consideration OF the bill
Through the aCuIeDess Of Senator Gore.
the blind Democratic Senator from Ok
lahOma, the famous My Dear HarrI-
man letter. from the President 10 r
H Hartman, wes inserted in the Con-
gressionaI Record
Various efforts were made TO amend
the bill All OF them failed Senator
Deliver offered as a substitute the Ia
Toilette bill. as reported from the Com
mirJee on Education and Labor Il was
beaten by So 20 d This bill was not
confined TO railroads. but included al
common carriers. Senator Ia Toilette
was kept home by illness
Senator ElkinS sought 20 defer action.
but without result The House bill was
stamped As fair and conservative by so
good constitutional expert as Senator
Knox. and Senators generally seemed
anxious % get il OF their hands.
The bill as passed ma kes railroads
engaged in interstate commerce liable
IN damages 20 any person injured while
employed by such carrier in such COM
mCrCe- The bar TO recovery on account
OF CoutribUtory negligence. Is removes.
the jury being let to determine the
damages in accordance with the degree
OF COntribUtOry negligence shown
The constitutional objections r iSed IN
the recent Supreme Court decision are
removed by conhning the application of
the measure strictly TO employees OF car
rleTS in Interstate commerce
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-04-10
Divorced Wrong Woman,
Married Former Fiancee;
Accused of Bigamy Now

PITTSBURG, April l0.-Calvin s.
Wright, barber OF Jeanette, Pa.
near here, believing that the courts
OF South Dakota had given him the
right to do so, about a year ago mar
ned Miss Anna c. O'Donnen. of this
city, q sweetheart Of his younger DAYS;
but It develops that an error was made
by the Western court. which divorced
him from the wrong woman. and now
he must stand trial in criminal court
on charges Of bigamy and perjury.
His first wife, Mrs. Sophia. Wright.
better known as Mrs. Ida Wright, is
back OF the prosecution.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-04-10
RED LIPS HALT FUNERAL;
WOMAN DEAD, HOWEVER

BERLIN Nd, April IO.-The discov-
cry that her lips were still rosy and her
cheeks glowed, put a sudden ston To
the funeral services for Miss Katie
Hammond.
The casket was about 20 be closed
when the attention of DR.. Thomas "
Hammond, a brother. was called He
with other doctors decided life was ex-
unct, but interment was not made.
The body remained in the church
watched by friends. and another ex-
animation was made in the morning
She was pronounced dead. and the
funeral finished.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-04-10
ADVERTISED 1900 JOBS,
DECLARED A FRAUD

Anton Atlantic. Of Salamanca. y. Y.
who MAIDS uee Of the name. Frank
Karlinger.' and advertised that he was
in position TO supply employment 10
some 800 persons. has been branded a
fraud by the action Of the PCsJoffice
Department, which has denied him the
use OF the mails
Atlantic advertised in newspapers that
he would secure employment for those
who would send him from 81 to 3. The
investigation showed that he had no
positions TO give out. and was not in
touch with anyone who did
The National Publishing Company. .
Union Square. New York city. a concern
Under the management Of one Charles
Iigouri. has also been placed in the
fraud list This company at one time
received as many as LOO letters a day.
Ii is a scheme to cell several articles
Of cheap jewelry BY Misrepresentation
IS TO its value.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-04-10
.CUPID-PROOf TEACHERS
WANTED IN PHILIPPINES

Frank r White. OF the Government
school service in the Philippines, Is
going to manage the greatest personally
conducted teachers excursion ever o.
gained.
M White has been sent back to the
states 10 drum up and bring out 10 the
Islands go teachers He Is now IN
Washington. comforting with the Civil
Service Commission and various other
authorities about getting teachers who
viii positively teach and VIII not set
married to the good looking young army
officers and civil service employees.
Mr.. White has been IN the service six
years having gone to the islands from
Tekamah. Neb., where he taught school.
The positions in the islands Pay from
500 70 S1,591 per anuum- Mr. White Is
looking for majority Of young men, II
they can be had. They are considered
more reliab bic from the standpoint of the
matrimonial risk He hopes 10 ship his
cargo in a few weeks
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-04-10
Five Democrats
PreSident'SPick
ASGreateStMen
Hill, Cleveland, Bryan, Car
negie, and Mitchell Com
ing to White House.

Who are the five foremost citizens, in
private life. OF the United States2
James }. Hill. Andrew Carnegie, Grover
Cleveland, William Jennings Bryan. and
John Mitchell.
That's President Roosevelt's list. Who
T.Il improve it?
The President has placed the seal of
his approval on this list by extending TO
these five men personal invitations TO
attend his great conference Of governors
at TIE White House. May i, -. II and
10 Besides the governors oS I'll the
States, Cabinet members, the justices
of the Supreme Court and members of
the Inland Waterways Commission have
been invited. But all save the five gen
tlemen named come ex officio. II may
be said that these five men are desig-
mated by the President as his choice for
the distinction OF being the foremost
private citizens Of the country.
II is noted as decidedly interesting that
every man in the list is "a Democrat,
albeit there are several 'inds Of Demo
Gratis represented IN this group. Two
are among the richest men in the world.
one has been President, and another is
liable one day 10 be President. the last
man on the list is "A leader of labor. a
few years ago a boy In the miRss OF
Pennsylvania picking the slack from
the coal.
II is also interesting that practically
every man who Is considered in cOnnec-
ton with the Presidency for the next
four years viii be in the list OF guests:
but they come IN various official capac-
lucs-as Senators. Cabinet officers. the
Vice President and Speaker OF the
House and governors OF States Each
governor IS asked TO bring along three
delegates OF his own selection. and De-
aware viii send In this list Judge Gray.
her Presidential candidate. The meet
ings Will be IN the famous East Room
OF the White House, ana q dinner by
the President 10 the governors viii be
given the evening OF Nav u
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-04-10
INTERNAL WATER"
WORRIED JIN'S DAD
Story of Indiana Conven-
ton Concerns WatSon'S
Father and Manager.

Representative Jim Watson or In
diana was nominated for governor OF
that State the other day, in one OF the
most remarkable Indiana conventions
ever held one Of the good stories about
the gathering has Just come 20 light
with the return OF the Indiana crowd to
Washington.
Watson had the fight or his life TO
win. He and his friends figured him 10
win on the third ballet; after that. Il
on the third.
Things didn't 60 according TO ar
engagements Representative Jim was
nervous and worried. and paced up and
down the big room undeT the platform
of the convention hail, smoking and
comforting with friends VINO came out
20 see him
Inside, Representative Jin's most al
dent supporter vas his father, chair
man Of the Randolph county delegation.
seventy-eight years old, and warhorse
of many ar Indiana campaign dating
back before the civil war The elder
Watson had been TO o few OF EN-, but
this time he was ratified
AS the third ballot proceeded II be
came apparent that Watson was not
going to win. Candidate Jim was WOr-
ried ana irritable He was pacing Up
ana own when his father rushed into
the big room
Hello. dad; you here?'' demanded
Jim.
yep. been here all the time, replied
dad testify.
Seem &c have brought your crouch
along. too dad" reIorJed the scion
No / didn't Jim rejOined the old
gentleman: but I'll tel you one thing,
ard that = that II this lasts many more
ballots I'm going 10 require something
stronger than this Internal water 10
drink between times
on the fifth ballot Watson won. and
the rcpor- comes very direct that no.
body worried about water the rest Of
the UlEht.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-04-10
MRS. VANDERBILT
EXPECTS 100000
Her Divorce Case Goes
Before Court on
Monday.

NEW YORK. April 10-The taking of
testimony in Mrs. Alfred c. Vanderbut's
suit for divorce, before David Mcclure
as referee, was ended today. The ref
cree will make his report, including his
recommendations in the case. 10 Su-
preme Court Justice O'Gorman on Mon
day. Justice OGorman is expected to
grant Mrs. Vanderbilt an interIocutory
decree Of divorcs. which viii permit her
10 remarry afler three months II she
SC chooses
While there was practically no defense
on the part of the lawyers for Alfred G.
Vanderbilt, IL was learned today thai
there was a dispute over two points.
These were the amount Of the settle
ment TO he made upon the wife and the
custody Of the child.
The prevailing opinion IN regard 10
the amount of the settlement is that IL
was finally agreed to make It 100000.
X was pointed out today that young
Vanderbilt is worth now at least So
100000, and that II hardly would be pa
sonable for Mrs Vanderbilt TO consid.-
that she was entitled 10 less than s.
OO0.OO0.
The facts in regard to the trial OF the
suit before the referee, which leaked
out despite the great secrecy observed,
are these.
There were five sessions of the lrs-
eree's court. and eleven witnesses in all
were examined
There were several correspondents
named, but they did not appear One
or these Is a leading comic opera star
and another IS a young French woman
whom Mr. Vanderbilt IS said to have
met under romantic circumstances on
the bride path in Central Park. Her
name and his have been linked Ofreu
since the suit was begun.
Mr.. Vanderbilt insisted that the names
OF The women brought into the case
should not become public.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-04-10
A Lesson in Revision.

Official figures on trade with Ger
many, under the new customs ar
rangement, are proving a hard blow
to the extreme protectionists. They
were positive, when the deal was
negotiated, that it would be disas-
trous to this country and would
open the foodgates for an inunda-
ton of pauper-made goods, while in
juring our export trade.
Great stress was laid on the pre-
dictions of disaster. The high
tariff people were positive that this
administrative agreement was the
beginning of a series of insidious at
tacks on protection, which would
soon undermine the structure. The
critics of the new arrangement even
told the number of factories that
would be closed on account of this
arrangement, and found their sole
satisfaction in the prediction that
at any rate the results would be so
fearful that they would bring about
a reaction in favor of more strin-
gent enforcement Of the very letter
of Dingley schedules.
But the working of the arrange
ment has been a painful disappoint-
ment TO forecasters of disasters.
Figures just issued on the trade
with Germany for eight months
ending with February, including the
period since the new arrangement
took effect, show a big increase in
exports to Germany. At the same
time there has been an actual re-
duction in the amount of ''pauper-
made goods imported from Ger
many, compared with previous
years.
For the eight months, exports to
Germany were S212, 100000 against
! S1s5, 100000 for the like period of
the preceding year, and S17O,90O,OoO
and 137,OOO,OOO, respectively, for
the two years before that. During
the same period imports from Ger
many were S1O3,OOO,OOO, compared
with SOS, 100000 the preceding year.
Moreover, the first year under the
new arrangement is the first in q
long time in which there has been a
reduction in imports from Germany,
This arrangement was denounced,
at the time it was negotiated, as a
bit of Genatured reciprocity; just as
much reciprocity as could be ar
ranged without having received the
consent of the Senate. Tt was de-
clared a vicious executive usurpa-
ton. an attempt to manipulate the
customs laws without the help OF
Congress 1t was everything bad
But the protectionist extremists
have had little to say of late about
German trade. The proof of the
pudding is in the eating; and this
German experience demonstrates
that nothing is so much needed 10
improve the conditions of foreign
trade as more revision, more moder-
alton in duties.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-04-10
BISHOPS BAN ON BOOKS
RESTRICTS PARISHI0NERS

PARIS. April 10.-The new archbishop
o. Paris has renewed his campaign
against certain modernist works that
have recently appeared, notably two
books of the Able L .sy. The arch
bishop prays for the enlightenment OF
those who have gone astrsy. and for
bids the clergy and the faithful in his
diocese. on penalty of eNcommunicatiCn,
TO read the Able LOisy books.
The same penalty applies. TO those
who are found with the books in -neir
possession, or print them or defend
them
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-04-10

tries and there is a tendency toward a
reduction in the number OF calibers OF
guns composing the armament.
The program OF England includes
three large armOred vessels Of the
DreadnOught type. one fast unarmored
cruiser. nVe ocean going deStrOyerS OF
boats OF 80 tons, and twelve subma-
rineS. The displacement of The vessels
of the DreadnOught type has been in
creased 70 l9,5O0 tons The fast un-
twenty-five-knot speed. The total
amount of money to be expended for
shipbuiiding IN the year Is $39,4lS.650.
France has building program con-
and ten submarines, Sl.696.3f6 being au-
thOrized for new construction. How
ever. a large number OF vessels are
building under former programs, in
Guiding six battieships Of the DantOn
class, four battleships OF the Justice
class. four large armored cruisers and
many destroyers and submarines.
Germany Is Active.
The German program is governed by
the eject law" which authorizes a con-
tinuous building policy and specifies the
building program for each year up 20
and including 1917. IL amounts 70 ?
battIeships. 1 armored cruiser. ? pro-
tected cruisers, p torpedo boats, and a
number OF submarines. The amount
authorized for new construction in the
year IS S3O5l5.S60. The characteristics
of the battleShips are not announced,
but Il IS believed they are TO be of more
than 5000 tons displacement and are
10 carry a large number Of heavy cali
Der guns. The armored cruiser is be
ieved to be Of about 1900 tons dis
placement, 20 carry "A number OF heavy
caliber guns, and 10 have turbine en-
gines-
Compared 20 these. the Japanese pro-
gram IS modest. costing but SlI, 9f5, 193.
The number and types Of ships 10 be
laid down are not vet officially an
noInced, but the program IS understood
10 include three batJleships, with several
destroyers and submarines.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-04-10
Is This the Way?

Amount invested by Con-
gress NORTHUMBERLAND. $75, 600
Amount invested by parents
for supervision. $4,000
Attendance recorded last
year .......-......... 100000
This is the record of the public
Fairgrounds for the past yea4. For
the coming year the House has
failed to provide a cent, even to
maintain the grounds it has already
bought.
Is this the way 10 make an in
vestment yield?