New-York tribune., 1910-05-24

| is no necessity whatever for the legislation
Mr.. Tawney proposes and that all that is
needed is the appropriation, the language
of the Payne law carrying, according to
Messrs Taft and Wickersham, all the au-
thority needed to warrant the investigation
! of costs Of production which the President
desires. OF course, if Congress cares to
grant this authority by more specific legis-
lation the President will be duly gratifed,
but he will not hold it a virtue to jeopar-
die the appropriation by needless effort
to amend the law. A simple appropriation
would not be subject to point of order as
it would not constitute new legislation, but
would he merely making the APPROPRIATION
necessary to carry out the executive law
The standpatters refuse to admit that the
President now has the power to employ the
members OF the Tariff Board to conduct
the investigation he desires, but they will
be opposed TO the provision IN any event
so that their attitude does not cut much
figure
BRAZIL REPRESENTED-T report
that Brazil is not to be represented at the
Pan-Amerlcan conference al Buenos Ayres
appears to be without foundation and
probably arises from ignorance OF the fact
that Senor Demisio da Cana, the Brazilian
Minister to Argentina has been designated
as the special envoy OF his country at the
conference. Seflor de Cana mas already
arrived at Buenos Ayres, according TO adj
vices received at the Brazilian Embassy in
WASHINGTON, although the conference will
not meet for several days This is the
same Seror de Cana who is being consid-
cred for the post of ambassador TO the
United States. vice the late Seior Nabuco,
md l-oi &c art1e a a successor
.Seiior Nabuco. as ne has served his country
with distinction at most OF the embassies
and legations of Brazil in European capt.
tails Sefior Nabuco was extremely Popular
in WASHINGTON and established for his
government a place in the diplomatic corps
--ilich could be filed only by a diplomat of
more than ordinary attainments. 1t IS Tor
that reason that Sehor lie CANA is regard
ed as likely to come here in the autumn.
In the mean time his appointment as Bra
lillian envoy to the conference at Bueuos
-Ayres is at once a compliment TO Argentina
and tribute to the high estimation in
which Brazil holds the conference
TEACHERS PENsIoNs.-Represent
Olcott reported to the House to-day, for
the Committee on the District of Columbia,
a teachers pension bill which, if enacted,
have taught not less than thirty years, one
half of that time in the District; for all
who have taught twenty-five years in the
District and for teachers who have taught
between five and twenty years in the Dis
trict and who have become mentally or
physically incapacitated. The scale of the
proposed pensions is to be siX-tenths Of
the average annual salary paid the retir-
f,cr for rha fro inn
preceding the time of retirement. Mr.. Oh
colt in his report says that teachers have
been and are so poorly paid that it is i'm
possible for them to lay aside sufficient to
care for themselves in their old age. and
adds that the pay of teachers in the United
States averages less than that of laborers
He cites the Bureau of Education as his
authority for the statement that in forty
four out of the forty-eight cities the pay of
teachers averages less than that of la
borers.
SUCH IS F'AME.-Miss Jane Addan1s, the
founder of Hull House. and the pioneer in
settlement work in Chicago, recently was
in st. Louis, and, according to a veracious
chronicler, was visited by an enterprising
young reporter whose first question was:
Miss Adams have you ever had any ex-
perience in settlement work?' When this
story was repeated to-day in the presence
of Senator Frye he remarked that 1t re-
minded him of an experience of his own
a wear OF two ago He was returning to
Washington for the. session of Congress
and stayed over a day or two. in Boston.
Soon after he had registered. at the Tou-
laine a youthful reporter called on him. and
his first question was: Senator, have you
ever taken any interest in the ship subsidy
action?' Not much" replied the Senator,
dryly, Can you tell me just what it is?''
Whereupon the young man proceeded to
give a little elementary instruction on the
subject to the Senator. who had been the
author of most of the ship subsidy bills in
troduced in Congress And the venerable
Senator never enlightened the young man.
He says he vas afraid it might have en-
barrassed him. G.. G. II.