New-York tribune., 1908-01-12
LEGISLATION IN PROGRESS.

with Congress- the State Legislature and the
Board of Aldermen all at work. the body OF laws
promises to be increased in bulk. il not in ef-
fciency, for promoting the good o. mankind IN the
ensuing few months Methods for financial relief
to prevent the return OF distressing conditions and
a new naval bill. designed to solve existing DIM
culties, under discussion in Washington Inc
President has expressed his view of Rear Ad-
miraI BroWason's action in resignng rather than
obeying orders unseemly and improper Al Al
bany Edwin A. Merritt, jr.. who declined TO enter
a contest for the speakership, has been retained
as majority leader. but State Chairman "oodrui
failed to get his chairman of the Cities Committee
Governor Hughes came in for "a denunciation as
a partisan by Senator Grady because of his falling
to fill the place OF Willard Bartlett on the Su-
preme Court bench with Democrat. and the end
of II is not vet Another diatribe at the Governor
was made by d. Cajy Herrick tan unsuccessfui
asprant the Office, who last year hailed MI
Hughes just good as Democrat. but VINO
now has for his partisanship. But the
Governors course IS unruied and he still declines
express any opinion in regard 10 the Presidentia
candidacy. President Roosevelt is quoted as giving
an estimate of substantial majority IN the Chi-
cago convention for Mr.. Taft The latter has been
making more speeches One possible candidate
has been eliminated by the failure of Leslie NJ
Shaw to secure the support of his state. Iowa
THE Supreme Court of the United States has
held that the employers liability law. drafted by
the 59th Congress and strongly urged by President
Roosevelt in his messages. is unconstitutional, but
the wishes of the President for broader and more
effective measure which VIII avoid the objections
fatal to the first one 10 be carried out in the
enactment of a new law. The proposal to create
tariff commission is the first step toward the re-
vision of the schedules.
william Jennings Bryan (his full name has 20
be used to diferentiate him from William James
Bryan the new F1oridian Senator) has made
virtue of necessity and dropped the proposed gov
eminent ownership of railroads from his political
platform. Senator Bryan (the other of that ilk has
only been Representative has his Senate seat IN
juxtaposition that of the oldest member of the
upper house William Pinkney Whyte. who is
eighty-three. while he himself is only thITty-one.
A peril is incurred by teachers in the public
schools by the experience of the East Side
being mobbed by their pupils and having to seek
police protection the way home. President
Ahearn of the Borough of Manhattan has secured
legal decision which gives him official place, de-
spite the effort of Mayor Mcclellan to ignore him
since his reelection. The work OF securing the
second Thaw jury has completed. 1t expected
have the prosecutions experts testify for the de-
fendant at this trial. Another link between Wash
ington Heights and University Heights has been
secured by the opening of the bridge the
Harlem River from West 207th to West is4th
street, difference of nomenclature which the city
authorities should remedy. The marriage OF Con-
gressman SulZer to the trained who cared for
him when he I'll a surprise to friends OF
both. The power of his mothers name was recog-
nized by Andrew Carnegie, who has given pension
bearing it.
Among the deaths of the week those OF
Bishop Worthington. OF Nebraska Commander H
H. Hosloy L. s. N: Samuel FeSsenden Prince
Poniatowski and the Rev. DR. Elijah r. Craven