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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-08
A BUSINESS MEMS VIEW OF
THE GAS SITUATION.

An unusual opportunity faces the
subcommittee on public utilities OF the
Chamber of Commerce. 1t is about to
investigate the existing gas situation
in the District of Columbia. 1t under
takes that task after action by the
whole chamber, which was at least
sufficiently conservative. It's report
will appeal to the full trust and conf
de1ce of Washington business men.
Wherefore IL is good 10 see that the
committees first step is to make sure
the entire city will be represented
among the witnesses. Atop of shat, 1t
should now make sure that the hear
iags will be long enough to develop
all the facts, and as little longer as
possible; that there are present mem
bers of the chamber competent in sPe-
cial information to cross examine the
witnesses; that the findings of the
committee be expressed so that who
ever reads may understand.
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then it offered a 40 per cent duty.
This was refused. and it came down to
%. At this figure the opposition agreed
to come in.
Then it came to the floor, and Mr..
Norris of Nebraska offered his amend
ment to reduce it TO l per cent ad
valorem- He placed it at that figure
for parliamentary reasons which made
it difficult, if not impossible, safely to
propose free oil. The advocates of
high-taxed oil and High profits for
Standard fought TO the last ditch The
old guard dies; it never surrenders.
They chung tensciously to every pos
sible chance, to every technicality of
ruling and procedure. The House over
rule a decision of the Chair in order to
get at the schedule itself; and then it
carried the Norris amendment by an
overwhelming vote.
The same days work included the
definite placing of coffee and tea on
the free list; hides had been left there
the day before; so that in every con-
test, save only that on lumber, the
consumer has won in the House. 1t is
good showing thus far, on which the
people and the press which has been
fighting the peoples battle are entitled
to congratulation. This newspaper has
from the very day the Payne bill was
reported insisted that these changes
must be made in the bill. That they
have been made is naturally the Occs-
sion for some measure of qualification.
1t all goes to demonstrate, however,
what a monumental mistake the con-
sumers' invertebrste friends made when
they did not demand three times as
much from the Rules Committee. II
they had held out longer, they would
have got votes on linens, wOolens, cot
tons, hosiery, gloves. the general spice
schedule, dyes and dye chemicals, and
many other things which are as truly
necessaries of life as oil and shoes
They sod their opportunity for the
poor privilege of maintaining some
form of regularity; and now they have
sacrificed that in the oil fight They
are IN just as bad standing with tho
IIouse machine az if theF had ma e
the fight all along the line; worse, in
deed.
But the consumer is having his IN
ming. He is going TO keep up this Sight
on Friday, when it is strongly hoped
he viii win for free lumber Then n,
will carry his case to the other end oi
the Capitol and fight for more conces
siOns m the Senate. Altogether, tlC
developments thus far are calculated tc
give cheer and engagement to tn,
Hen who have made the fight to tbi,
point Let them keep it up; let the:l
sbies in the Senate take it up next
week and stand firm. The public is
with them. II is not going to be salts
fed till about half the schedules in the
Payne bill are opened up and hinestIy
revised downward.
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THE CONSUMER WANTS HIS
MONEYS WORTH.

1T seems to me that the main thing
is to have a law that will enable the
consumer to see that he is getting his
moneys worth"
Z This is the common sense view OF
the bread law situation expressed by
Commissioner Macfarland. The cid law
was obscure, was being enforced only
as to particular sections, and bore un-
necessarily or the bakers. The con
sumer wants all he can get for his
money. pound loaf has no merit for
him if it means getting less for his
money than he can get in loaf of
another weight. The main thing TO him
is to know what he gets, or, as Mr..
mcfarland phrases it, ito see that he
is getting his moneys worth"
The Judgment of this newspaper is
that there ought TO be a new law TO
take the place of that now pronounced
invalid by the courts. If such law IS
had. it should further the spirit OF the
pure food and drug act as to quality
Of ingredients and enable the consumer
so see that he is getting his moneys
worth" as to quantity.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-08
SPEAKER cannon
DOES BARN DANCE
Enlivens Reception Given to
Representative Mckinley
by Jamestown Survivors.

With the exception Of the beautiful
barn dance which Speaker Joseph c.
Cannon and Allen d. Albert dragged
out, tried, convicted, and executed at
the New Willard last night, the recep-
ton given by the Jamestown Survivors
to His Grace the Duke of IllinOyse.
was a delight and joy for three hours
or more.
II was Just an informal reception, that
TO His Grace the Duke, otherwise and
at other times Representative William
Il. Mckinley Of Illinois. His Grace the
Speaker If the House of Representa-
tiveS; Representative Maynard OF Vir-
ginia: Representative Pleasant Chap
man of Illinois, Judge Mckinney. of
the same State, and others were there.
The evenings entertainment, for the
exceilency OF which J. Norwood, a
Washington journalist is 10 be thanked.
comprised many good vaudeville stunts.
some singing, some sleight-of-lfand and
highballs, rye or scotch Food was TO
be found also, but il intern pted con-
versatiOn and IS not good mixed with
rye
Mr.. Cannon made a fine old speech. in
which he admitted that he, an old man
turned philosopher. couldn't see that
there would be any difference in effects II
tomorrow the Congressman became the
journalist and the journalist became
the Congressman.
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RACIAL FEATURES OF THE
MARATHON GAME.

For one thing, these Marathon races
are doing much 10 restore the athletic
prestige of the Latin race. St Yves, the
Frenchman, and Dorando, the Italian,
are apparently the best long distance
runners of the times Much is made
of the fact that the French champion
doesn't look like a runner. But looks
are deceptive in sport as well as in So
ciety. As a matter OF fact, French
men are famous for their power of
endurance. The French soldiers are
believed To rival the worlds best
marchers; at least, they have the repu-
tation in military circles of beng able
20 beat their European rivals 10 a
fragile in TINS particular. branch OF the
art Of war As for Dorando. It is much
to his credit to say that since his os-
cape from British admirers he has prav-
cd his right TO be regarded as ono of
the most brilliant athletes taat ever
cantered ronnd track
But what Of the once mighty red
man? Is Che new generation to be
lieve that the stories of his o'it.unning
TIE horse and the buffalo ara mere
fairy tales Is Longboat. who gems
temporarily 10 be Indifferent L, Same
ui1 fortune, the only representative
the reputed race Of runners can send ia
the front2 The Carlisle School hA.
clown how well the Indian ear Play
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ENTER.

The Columbia Heights Citizens As
ISOLATION is we'll within sound Judgment
when it objects to the type of "pay-
Rs-you-enter" cars now in use on the
Fourteenth street line. The association
has waited until the cars have had fair
trial. 1t has then resolved the mani
fest facts that the seating capacity of
the new cars is less than that of the
old and the standing capacity greater,
and that If cross-wise seats are sub
stituted for the present length-wise
seats the greatest objection viii be re-
moved. It Is good to know that this
view is now Endorsed as to eross-wise
seats by the secretary of the electric
Railway commission.
4 complete car service would pro
vide every passenger with seat and
have no one in The aisles. The expert
snce of the regular patron of the Four
tenth street line is that in the new
ears only half the passengers have seats
and the aisles are generally blocked.
One reason for this condition is that
where the old style of car with cross
wise seats could accommodate forty
passengers and no one standing, the
new style can accommodate only thir-
ty-one comfortably in its two length
wise seats. But there is another rea-
son-that the aisles of these new cars
hur 10 IL E-zTI
more passengers than any aisles or plat
forms ever before seen in Washington.
The consequence may possibly be that
more citizens can be transported in a
single car than ever before But it is
certain more are being given only half
return for their money than ever be
fore.
In Chicago and Brooklyn psy-as- you
enter cars have cross-wise seats. They
are built for the passengers to sit, not
10 stand. They work better than the
Fourteenth street type because the pas
eenger is impelled to get a seat as far
Up a comparatively narrow passage.
say as he can. They give more comfort
than this local type because more often
they give the passenger the seat he
pays for In the end they will net the
company more gain because they pro
vide the company's customers with q
more satisfactory service. 1t viii b,
interesting to see whether or not oul
Washington systems will continue thi:
mistake until trouble arises and the
change is compulsory, or whether such
as-you-entef cars as are yet to be
ordered will be constructed according
10 the passengers just expectations.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-08
SOME GAINS FOR THE CON
SUMER IN THE TARIFF.

The underlying sentiment OF protest
against the Payne bilps schedules con-
centrated itself into the remarkable re-
volt which made Nebraska insurgent
Republican master of the House for an
hour, and defeated the Rules Commit
tee, the Ways and Means Committee,
Speaker Cannon. and the oil monopoly
Of the country, ell at once, in the con-
test over the duty on oil
II was the inevitable explosion. The
effort to force down the threats Of the
House membership a bill which does
not satisfy one man in ten. met with
the check that was sure 10 come Ia
such an effort. The protection given
TO the Standard Oil Company was clan
destinely worked into the Dingley bill
and was expected by the whole coun-
try 10 be dropped out when revision
should be undertaken. That protec-
tion had made it possible for the Stand
ard Oil Company to sell the same oil
in competitive foreign markets at 2
and 3 cents per gallon more than il
gets in this country. It amounted to
donation 10 the Standard of from
s3O.OOO,OOO TO S45,OOO,OOO a year. The
wonder was not that such a provision
could be sneaked into tho DingIev acc
only TO be discovered years afterward
Rather, the marvel Of it all was that
once discovered, the organizstio of tn,
House should have the effrontery to at
tempt to perpetuate and. defend it
That extreme was what brought dowi
the wrath
The original Payne bill. according L
al accounts. did not contain the coun
tervailing duty provision. That wa
pht IN at the last minute because pow
crful interests whose identity can easily
be guessed, demanded it. There wa
an uproar of protest. and the Rule
Committee agreed 70 substitute for tina
duty Of over 100 per cent ,he privileg
81 a vote on an ad valorem duty o
% per cent. The committee hung GU
3 long time against any concession
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President Taft
And the South

CBy Commissioner Henry L West in the
April FORUM
President Mckinley died happily in
the conviction that under his admins
tration the last vestige Of sectionaiism
had disappeared President Taft can
go still further. He can help the South
IN her effort toward that material de-
veiOpment which her fertile SOIL her
forests, her mines, her splendid sea
coast harbOrs, and her internal water
ways so abundantly prophesy. He can
treat her people with genuine consid-
Grafton; he can respect their traditions
even though he may not adopt them.
and lie can dispasSiOnately and wisely
infiueu nee both the negro race and its
white environment mutually 20 advance
each others interests All this can be
accomplished without raising the spectre
Of social equality-a phrase that has
done more toward preventing harmOni-
Gus relation between the races in the
South than any other two words in
the English language President Taft.
IN all his utterances, has carefully
avoided reference TO this disturbing Gle
ment. Evidently he does not regard
IL as a possibility, much less as a Seri-
Gus menace. He wants the South to
prosper and the negro to advance. and
he believes that these desiderata are
linked together. 1t is happily within
his pOwer-as il seems to be within mis-
ambition-to achieve both desirable re-
suits.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-08
Wagner-Kwis.


Wagner Kwis.
Miss Meude Wagner, daughter of VII
liam Wagner, was married last evening
in her fathers home on Ninth street
southeast, TO Arthur F. Kwis. Of CIeve-
land, Ohio. The Rev John Wiediey, OF
the Church of the Reformation, Officiat-
ed. Only the members Of the immediate
families. owing to the recent death OF
the brides mother, were present
The house YVES beautifully adorned
with quantities Of palms, ferns and
The bride, who was attended by her
sister, Miss Jeanette Wagner, as maid or
honor, wore a tailored suit OF navy blue
broadcloth with a hat of the same
roses and lilies of the valley. Miss
jeanette Wagner wore a dainty white
swiss frock, trimmed with lace. and
carried a cluster OF Bridesmaid roses.
w. J. Wallis vas the best man for
Mr.. Kwis.
Mr.. and Mrs KRis left Washington
later in the evening for Cleveland,
where they viii be at home after May !
Mrs. Tom A. Williams. of Wyoming
avenue, will not be at home tomorrow
afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander Britton. &C
| spending Easter week in Atlantic City.
The Rev DR.. and Mrs. J. H. Bush
nell, of Minneapolis, Mimi, are spend
| ing few days in Washington at the
Dewey Hotel
Miss Ethel Chase has arrived from
Bryn Mawr to spend the Easter holidays
/ with her parents, Mr., and Mrs. 3. F.
| Chase She is accompanied by several
/ OF her school friends.
| Mrs. J. c. Piling. who has bcen spend
| ing few days at her country place at
| CharmiOn, Pa. viii return &c Washing
ton this afternoon.
A very interesting meeting was held
/ in the vestry rooms OF the Eighth
/ Street Temple by the Council Of Jewish
! Women yesterday afternoon. A paper
was read by Mrs. SiIas Rosenthal, the
! subject being upon Friendship" Sew
| eral solos were given by Miss Flora
! Bernheimer. and Mrs. Myer Fell
| heimer presided al the plano. The meet
ing was closed with a social hour.
=
The weekly bridge and whist of the
! Mercantile Club was held Tuesday even
/ ing.
The bridge prizes were won BY Mrs
| Marx Kaufman and Mrs. Fred Schwab
and the whist prize " Mrs. Henry
] Goodman.
=
I Mr. and Ms Louis Konigsburg, OF
| New York. viii be In town tomorrow 4
| be the guests Of Mrs. Charles Kaufman
! Of Eighteenth street.
|
\ important meeting VIII te hs'd al
the Eighth Street Temple by the LaGies
] Auxiliary Society today. Nominations
of officers Will be in order.
! The Undicum Club viii give an in.
1 formal dance this evening at Postoffcs
l Hall Fourteenth street and Park road
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CHARLEY HORTON WILL SING
AND MISS AMIES PLAY
AT A RECITAL
AT A RECITAL

Miss Roberta Hope Amies, whose
piano work last season at several Of
the important recitals attracted wide at
tention, and Charley Horton, the well
known boy Soprano OF st. john 5
Church, Will appear in joint recital
in the ball room OF Rauscher's April
20, at 4:30 O'Clock, under the direction
Of II. H Freeman
Miss A,nies made her concert debut
here in a recital at the Washington
Club. Charley Horizons beautiful voice
has been a feature of the musical ser
vices at St. Johns, where he is solOist.
In the list of patronesses are Mr. and
Mrs. LaTZ Anderson, Mrs David )
Brewer. AIr. and Mrs John F Blair. the
Rev. F. Il. BigelOw and Mrs. Bige-
low. the Rev Edward ;. Dunlap, Cen
and Mrs George L Gillespie, Mrs JOIN
&. Henderson, Mrs Julian James. Mrs
Z. II. q. slater. the Rev. L. S G. Pierce
and Mrs. Pierce. and the Rev. Roland
Cotton Smith and Mrs. Smith.
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The advocates OF free petroleum are
charged with working for Standard OH
on the ground that they have arranged
to let in the refined oil which tn' stan
dard controls In MEXICO, free. Tne OPP
ponents OF free petroleum are charged
with favoring Standard because tney
would keep out the Russian S1rii}ettion.
The safe conclusion seems 10 be that OF
the Commissioner OF Corporations, Who'
finding that oil sells abroad much
higher than here, assumes there is need
Of changing something.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-08
White House Callers

senators Guggenheim of Colorado.
Lodge of Massachusetts.
Clapp Of Minnesota.
Representatives DENLY of Michigan.
Young of New York.
Bennett OF New York.
GOulden OF New York.
Hayes OF California
Kahn Of California
Olmsted OF PennsyI
vania.
Underwood of Alabama
Diskema of Michigan.
Secretary of the Navy Meyer.
Secretary of War Dickinson.
Corporal Tanner
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What Congress Did
IN THE SENATE.

submitted in response to a resolution
by Senator Cummins calling for infor-
nation about iron production
Senator La Toilette reported the census
bill and gave notice he would call it
up Friday
Senators Smith OF Michigan, Carter and
GuggenheiTn introduced resolutions
calling for information from various
departments about sugar production
and other phases of the sugar bust
ness
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-08
Remarkable Story to
Appear Serially in
The Times.

One Of the most remarkable pieces
Of fiction OF the year. The Journal
of a Neglected Wife" by Mabel Her
bert Urner, win appear IN The Times
beginning Saturday. April 10
The attention which this story has
received in the press OF the coun-
try assures the readers of The Times
that they viii set something UNUSUAL
and something unusually WORTH
reading and digesting and thinking
over.
The book has already gone througb
its first edition of 15,oO0 copies. ard
others are on the press. II is pre-
dicted that The Journal of Neg
lected Wife" Will be the best seller
of the year.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-08
Lieut. Reads Condition.

Lieut. Semmes Read, L s ", who
was thrown from his horse at Rock
Creek. is reported TO be resting easy
this afternoon. There is no general
change in his condition and the sur
geons expect no change TO manifest
itself for few days.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-08
But Don't Say tt

There is sepulchral silence at the De-
partment Of Justice these days. Mag
pies are not allowed in the building,
and conversation is tabnoed. The work
OF the department goes on, but nothing
is said about II.
The trouble Is that the Attorney Cen
eral has written and sent to all his
subordinates an order which. translated
into the vernacular, says:
IF you have anything to say. do not
say It."
He has directed all the subordinates
that. II they have any statement or eX-
PLANTATION which they deem useful 90 the
newspapers for publication. they shall
put it into typewriting and submit it 10
him. II he indorses II, It will be given
to the press. OF course. the subor-
dinates do not take the trouble TO write
out newspaper items, and the result is
that there is little opportunity to get
news from the department
Occasionally. one OF the champion
Iong-distance divers takes a header into
the pool under the building and comes
to the surface in Chicago or Cleveland
or New York with a prosecution or in
dictment story. But for these exploits,
the newspaper men would not know
much about what the department is
The new rule has been put into effect
! because ii mas been found that too
much publicity Injuries the department s
business and gives prospective victims
too much opportunity to prepare for
prosecutions.
Charles w. Taylor. prixate secretary
! to the Secretary Of the Navy. was a
newspaper man. He was educated in
| Europe and is an accomplished ltnguist.
Representative Frank Clarke, the
! Florida Democrat. who declared in a
speech IN the House the other day that
( he would vote for the Republican doc
trine of protection as long as 1t pro-
/ tected the Industries of his constituents,
/ is an authority on insane asyluIrs. He
7 was q prime mover of the COngre @sional
/ investigation two years ago of the Gov
| eminent Hospital for the Insane in the
/ District OF Columbia.
=
| Representative Necdham of California
/ was born in a moving wagon. in an old
| fashioned prairie schooner. out near
| Carson CITY. New, when his parents
! were moving across the plains in the
t-L, to fHa1f frtWsF "a
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-08
By The
Washington
Times Men
Heard at the Capital

II EVERYBODY wonders whether they
r. eat EN- all. up at the White
House.
The 'pOssums, that is. Presi-
dent Taft could line up the colored vote
for four years hense beyond the perad-
venture OF uncertainty, If ne could de-
velop a proper system OF distributing
the 'pOssums that come 20 him, so as to
make neat little feast Of each 'possum
for a group of the colored brethren.
They come from all parts Of the
South, with Geor gia reported slightly in
the lead TO date, because Georgia is a
great 'possum state. and also because
it was the state that discovered the
possum dime as an entertainment for
President They come in crates and
cages, always alive; nobody had had
the bad taste TO ship a dressed one thus
far, because a dressed 'possum isn't an
attractive looking beast at best. and be-
sides it's desired to give the White
House family the chance so keep its
pet as long as II may desire before
serving him.
The arrival OF one OF the rnarsupials
is now g. mere incident at the Ex-
ecutive establishment Just what re-
comes Of all Of them is not vet an
nounced- There is no real reason WIN
the Executive meat bill should be more
than a baZatelle II the entire family
Ike 'posSums. for the supply thus far
has been ample to run the household.
=
The full name Of Capt Archie Butt,
aide to the President, is Archibald Will
bingham de Graffenried Butt-which is
going some IN long names.
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football. If there is any rhyme or re''-
sor in tradition, then the Carlisle
School should have corps of cross
country DIT long distance runners that
it would I.t hard, if not Impossible, to
match. But it hasn't; and We wonder
wLy.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-08
JOSEPH W. BABCOCK
IS LOSING GROUND
Wisconsin Representatives. Condi-
ton Very Grave, Doc
tors Saw.

Former Representative Joseph W
Babcock OF Wisconsin, was reported
TO lie weaker this afternoon, although
there has been slight general change
in his condition. The physicians in at
tendance consider the present condition
very grave.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-08

It is understood that Senator'S Bourn
and Chamberlain. after studying the
map and discovering that China is
about as far away as one can conven-
ientIy get and still remain on the earth,
are reasonably satisfied with the tender
Of the Chinese mission to former Sena-
tor Fulton.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-08
TARIFF INCREASES RENTS.

HOLYOKE, Mass, April S.-The
Payne tariff bill is the specie reason
advanced by Maurice F Sullivan. a
large real estate owner, for advancing
the rent OF his Ienements. beginning
May /.