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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-03
THE WAY BLAZED.

The graft Investigation committee,
which is about TO begin its work. is re
ported To have in its possession the
documentary evidence of trading i'll
traction stocks 10y members OF the Legis-
lature the existence of which WAS dis
closed in superintendent Hotchkiss's re-
cent inquiry. This is said TO be Il mine
OF information regarding the relations of
certain legislators with a lobbyist repre-
senting the traction companies. The
committee is also reported To contem-
plate the early calling of Senator Con-
ger. who told only one part of his story
of what the bridge interests did to pro
tect" themselves and the checks of Buck
ley. who represented the fire insurance
companies in Albany. although refused
to Mr.. HotchkisS. are expected 10 be put
at the services of the present investi-
gators.
Thus the investigation will begin with
several we'll hlazed trails. The commit
tee does not start out in the dark. The
Allds-Conger inquiry and Mr.. Hotch-
kiss investigation have prepared the
way for il and have disclosed the exist
ence of evidence which, with only lit
tie more probing, may be expected 10 re-
ward investigators richly. This is fort
innate for the success of the present in
ouirv will largely depend upon its be-
ginning. The resolution under which 1t
is 10 he conducted was cunningly drawn
so as 10 make success doubtful, and the
committee appointed left much TO be
desired in the attitude Of members
individually toward a graft hunt But
many successful investigation has
started out under hardly more favorable
auspices in these respects, and few have
been begun in a field so well prepared
beforehand as this one.
Investigations. if they get we'll started,
have a way of conducting themselves,
irrespective of the attitude of the com
mittee Public opinion. once the people
become thoroughly interested, determines
their scope and thoroughnesS. The work
is done under the public eye, and any re
lUctance in lifting the lid is instantly
detected and condemned. It is. therefore.
in the highest degree fortunate that the
present investigation VIII begin with a
mass of interesting material on hand
and with every prospect of reaching i'm
portant disclosures early. Legislative
graft is a network. and one strand can
not he pulled without drawing all the
others With a good beginning. such as
Will fix public attention upon it, there
is a reasonabl likelihood that the com
i,,,, will I,o nj
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-03
RACING AND THE LAW.

Intimations Of more or less definite
ness continue to be made TO the effect
that racing will be ended in this state
on September l, when the new law
goes into effect But it is to be OBJ
served. if the sport is to be discontinued,
that the amendments adopted last win
ter have little or nothing to do with its
abandonment There has been no eX-
perience with those amendments. But,
on the contrary, the determination of
racing men to give up holding meetings
in this state, if it has been reached, has
been reached as result of operations
under the present law, adopted a year
ago. It is generally understood that
racing has not been profitable since open
bookmaking was barred by statute One
popular racetrack is reported TO have
lost $4,000 at its meeting this spring.
But if racing has been improbable
under the present law. under which oral
betting has gone on. then it would not
help its case to modify the rigors of the
recently adopted amendments forbidding
oral bo0kmaking. Nothing apparently
would save it but a return to the Percy
GRAY system, which defeated the plain
intent of the state constitution and made
legal behind a fence gambling which
was illegal elsewhere. That situation
WAS 50 repugnant to the moral sense of
The community that a return To- il is not
t. he thought Of. however great the re-
IUctance may he TO see the sport of rae
ing abandoned
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-03
A HEARTY BENNETT BOOMER.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: AS a daily reader of your paper I
find you have been fair and impartial as
to the claims and merits of all prospective
candidates for the governorship nomina-
ton And on the basis of IF you see it
in The Tribune it's true" there is no man
in the Republican party better fitted or
moro likely to succeed in its fight next
November than Congressman Williari S
Bennett It Is generally conceded that the
Republican party VIII have no waIkover
in this election. Consequently it must
nominate man who is experienced, able
with a good record, one who can unite
the different elements. He should he well
and favorabiy known, with a record for
having done something, neither insur-
gent nor r reactionary, one who can draw
votes from the Democratic party and still
retain intact the Republican vote
There is only one man mentioned thus
far who possesses all these qualifications
and he Is William s. Bennett.
His national reputation and splendid rec
ord In Congress are too we'll known for me
to repeat. He is most popular among
great labor orga nizations. ON the great
East Side OF New York his name is
household word: on the West Side ne is
Billy Bennett To Republicans and Demo-
Gratis alike. Next to Teddy he is the most
popular candidate who could be named
CHARLES J. DAVEY.
New York, July 50, 1910
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-03
A NEW POST FOR Mr.. WI
Former Minister Again in Power
-Tsai-tao' Return.

Picking, Aug. 2.-Wu Ting-fang former
Minister to the United States. who on his
retirement from the diplomatic service and
return to China was thought to have been
relegated permanently TO private life oy
the new forces ut Picking vas appointed -
day councillor 10 the Chinese Foreign Office
strength and foreign experience since the
dismissal by tine Regent of Yuan Shi Kai.
Picking was also surprised this morning
by the arrival uuheralded of Prince Tsal-
tao, uncle of the Young Emperor, whose
long and expensive trip through the United
States and Europe caused considera BILE
criticism of the dynasty Prince Tsai-tao
wished To pTolong his stay in Europe. but
was ordered 10 return quietly TO Picking.
prevent any anJi-dynastic incidents. aeains-
which the government has of late taken
unusual precautions.
In spite however of the criticisms of ex-
travaganCe Prince Tsai-HSun. a brother II
the Regent and several members of the it,,-
periaI family will sail for the United
States on August II. nominally TO study
naval methods in America though any in
crease in the Chinese fleet is not expected
foc many years.
A contingent of sixty students who are
being educated st the expense of the in
demnity fund returned to China by the
United States vlIl also sail for the United
States this month, as well as delegates TO
the prison reform congress and the confer
ence of army surgeons.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-03

sundry civil Appropriation act of SD
100000. in deficiencies of 81 .oS1 900, in
miscellaneous of $40. 900 and in per-
manent annual appropriations of SO.
I61. 900. The increases We're S9,214,0O
for the Postoffice service. nominal
advance, due to the expansion of
the business of the postal establish
,nent; So. 500. 900 for rivers and harbors
and 500. 5000 for recla nation projects
the last being merely loan from the
Treasury The net decrease in appro-
priations was about $290o0,G0O. Con
greSs increased the amount allotted 70
rivers and harbors far beyond the est
mates and in opposition to the wishes
of the President He signed the act but
announced that he would never approve
another framed after the same metnod.
1t is hardly consistent for those who
favor the restriction of federal eXpendl-
ture to sheer at such record ana TO
complain, as The World does, that we
need n President who will save not by
dimes but dollars. not by thousands
but by millions, not among CLERKS
merely. but all along the line OF waste
that has became institutional, dolhl-
."nant, defiant" Congress votes the
money to be used for governmental pur-
poses and is primarily reSpohsipie LOT
any waste which exists. But no f'reSl-
dent in our time has set a peter eS-
ample than Mr.. Taft in moderatlng the
demands of the departments and urging
Congress to cut down appropriations.
He deserves the gratitude OF every ad-
yocate Of federal retrenchment for what
he has done in setting up new stand
ards OF economy in administration and
nersuading the legislative department to
take a firmer grip on the nation S purse
strings
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-03
8 ~ UNJUST CRITICISM.

The New York World does Presi-
dent Taft an injustice when il init
mates that h studies economy in small
matters and regrets that he is not TO
pursue his researches on n large scale.
One Of the first principles in the phil
oscphy Of thrift is that if the pennies
are looked after the dollars will take
care If themselves The President is
already engaged in making plans for re-
trenchment in the administrative de-
partments. 4 great deal of money can
be saved 10y undermining department
methods and eliminating duplication
and waste. \ practical business man
like Secretary MacNeagh has found it
easy 10 do the work of the Treasury
Department better at much lower cost.
BY changing the size of the internal
revenue stamps he has saved $4,000
annually. by numbering, sealing and
separating United States notes and GER
titicates in one operation 100000, by
disseminating the hand weighing Of coins
and other changes in the mintS S133, HD,
by installing new machinery in the Bu-
reau of Engraving aud Printing SOB
COO in the transportation of silver and
minor coin S125.G00 in the administfa
ton of the revenue cutter, quarantine
and lifeSaying services $4,000. in print
ing and binding So, 900 and in The aboli-
ton Of unnecessary Treasury places
S306O 900.
What Secretary Macy eagh has done
ia the Treasury can he done in the eight
ether departments. The Postmaster
General in the last fiscal year reduced
The postal deficit about $1o0oopo0 by
administrative reforms. There is a
fruitful field for small economies" in
The whole federal service and the total
saving achieved may soon run high
in the millions. Why he impatient, then,
with an administration which by care
fuI attention To details is checking
waste and at the same time improving
the public service in the good old way
Of saving the pennies and dimes When
the President has put the departments
under his coRtroI in better order he can
insist with more authority on retrench-
ment in the expenditures which Con-
gress makes. and for which he is in no
measure responsible.
No other President has tried more
earnestly than Mr.. Taft 10 keep down
national expenses. The estimates which
were submitted at the last session of
Congress were the first in our day 10
he exceeded by the appropriations which
the two houses authorized. They re-
suited in remarkable decrease in the
amounts allotted 10 the departments
There was Shrinkage in the army
accoEnt of S3755.000 in the navy
account of S5.5S4 600 Ia the pen.
sion account Of $5,150000, iii the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-03
SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT
nv telegram To The Tribune

by Telegraph 70 The Tribune.I
Newport, Aug 2-The second debuta nte
of the season here was introduced to-day.
She was Miss Elizabeth S. Sands, daughter
of Mrs. Frederick P. Sands. There were
over three hundred guests present at the
reception given at Mrs. Sands's home
Mrs. Ellen French Vanderbilt gave her
first large social entertainment of the sea
son this evening at her summer home
Harbour View. Mrs Vanderbilt entertained
a party of thirty for dinner, and later fully
two hundred other guests arrived for
dancing.
Mrs. Clarence ". Dolan entertained a
party of friends at luncheon this after
noon.
Mrs. Elisha Dyer gave small dinner
party.
William Watts Sherman and his daugh-
ter, Miss Irene Sherman, have gone to
New York for a short visit.
William RhineIander Stewart jr., who
has been the guest of Lspenard Stewart
has returned 10 New York
Lorillard Spencer, jr., has returned from
New York for a short stay in Newport.
There was another cottage rental an
nouncement to-day. Joseph T. Tower of
Tuxedo. has leased Mrs. Edwin S. Cramps's
Sunnylea, On Bellevue avenue. for the re-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-03
PEOPLE and Social Incidents

mainder OF the summer. Dir. Tower Is ex-
pected the latter part of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Austin L. Sands. Of New
Hamburg, n. Y. are the guests OF Mrs.
Frederick p. Sands
Royal Phelps Carroll has gone 10 Mary
land to visit his father
Mr. and Mrs. Pembroke Jones have CONS
to New York.
James v. Parker has arrived at hrs sums
mer home 20 remain until the late fall.
Registered at the Casino to-day were Mr.
and Mrs. Bayard Thayer. Of Boston; MIR.
and Mrs. Austin l.. Sands; Elizabeth G. VI.
Ramsay. of Wilmington Del. and Charles
s. Chester, Of Philadelphia
Mr. and Mrs Samuel J. Wagsta6. Il
New York are guests OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Amos Tuck French
Mr.. and Mrs II. A. COster. of SeW York,
have arrived at the Needwood cottage
Mr.. and Mrs Arnold Hague who haVa
gone abroad, are 10 return to Newport
later in the season.
George Lee Peabody, fancs OF Miss Edith
Deacon, has been Ill in Boston. but Is now
on the road to recovery. and if possfbls
will spend the week end here When hers
late last month MIR. Peabody overtaxsd his
strength playing tennis.
Robert VI. Thompson and R VI LdttIs
arrived on their households to-day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-03
CHILPS PRESIDENT COMING
Officials of Two Republics Will
Welcome Don Pedro Mont.

Alberto YOaCharn the CHILEAN Chargs
d'Affaires at Washington. arrived in New
York yesterday in order 10 meet President
Pedro Montt. who is expected on the Royal
Mail liner Tagus The President Of ths
Chilian Republic is in bad health. and is
on his way To Bad-Nauheiu. He Will sail
August on the Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse.
Il think he will pass the time very
quietly" said Mr.. Toacham yesterday at to
Hotel Plaza AS he must take care Of him
self. He is man of great energy. son1e-
thing like Mr. Roosevelt. and it is in this
way that he has spent his strength IL
is possible that he NAV go to see Presi-
dent Taft on Friday If he does he will
go 70 Boston and thence 70 Beverly OF
board the Nayfiower-
President Montt made thestrip from Vail
paraiso to Panama on board the CHILEAN
man-of-war Esmera1da. accompanied by his
wife his siSter-in-law. his private seCre-
tary, physician and aid. Crossing tbs
isthmus. he caught the TaSus at Colon.
Chandler Hale. Third Assistant Secretary
of State; Thomas Cleland Dawson. for
merIy this country's representative n
Chill and row chief OF the Iatin-Arleri-
division OF the State Department.
and Major W II. Garter. L. 5. a.
are expected TO arrive from Washington to-
day 10 meet President Montt. Captain
Cuevas. the naval ,attach6 of the Gillian
Legation. arrived from Boston yesterday.
Ricardo Sanchez. consul general. and a.
Herquiniqo. second secrets~- of the le<3-
ton. will also be in New York while the
President is here. He will occupy the royal
suite al the Hotel Plaza.
Mr. Ioacham said yesterday that Chill
would soon ask American firms fcr bids
on bsttleships, The only naval acquisition
planned at present is a preadnouxhr
1t has been said that Chill would not ask
for American bids because the A.gent,ua
ships We're being built here he said yes
terday, but this il absurd American bids
will be asked for Just as European esti-
mates will he solicited
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-03
CONGRESS AND EXPENDITURES
A Plea for Economy, with Special Ref
erence to Pensions.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir. We expect judges to be Just ana
irnnartial. Should not men sent TO con-
gross represent not local and selilsh III
terests. but the whole people? Should tney
mot favor measures that concern the gem
era1 prosperity? Progress in science an"
art as seen in swift trains, telegraphs, teie-
nhones and other agencies, bind the people
closer and closer together. We are one
snd the general good should appeal 10 our
national lawmakers with an ever increas-
ing force.
In the worlds Work" for August a
narna1ess Congressman shows the pressure
which selfish local interests bring to bear
unon members of Congress. For instance
constant appeals are made TO them TO Sc
cure private pension legislation for 1ndl-
viduals who cannot get anything under
the general and generous laws He declares
that if the demands of reputable men ana
women on congressman TO get pensions Tor
men in no way deserving them were COLI
piled with, even in small part. and the
nens;on laws could be successfully evaded,
we should have pension roll of s5oo,ooo'oVo
wear No wonder then that forty-fve
wears after the close of the Civil War and
diers have for years died annually, We are
paying in pensions 100000, almost the
largest sum ever given.
It does seem that it is high time for gen
eral national sentiment to bear on TINS
matter of pensions There should be now
from the very nature of things a very
rapid reduction in our annual appropriation.
Good papers like The Tribune, have pro-
tested against private pension bills ana
there should be created by the press, both
religious and secular, sentiment strong
and sufficiently powerful to put an end to
the giving of pensions TO those who can
not with Justice claim them.
Further, the crime of the pork barrel
should cease. The river and harbor bill
appropriating S52oOO,o0O means much local
favor and absolute waste. Are there not
ways enough for the use of national money
without throwing away millions on rivers
which will not give an adequate return Tor
the outlay? Let the theory of private spo1ls
give way to a scientific policy of improve
ment. HENRY ). SIEPHENSON'
New York. Aug. l, 1910.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-03
NEW JERSEYS GROWTH.

The first census figures for any of the
component parts of the great netropoli-
tan district of which Manhattan Island
is the hub are those for the three cities
on the west shoEe of the Hudson-Hobo-
ken. Jersey City and Bayonne Their
rate in growth fairly reflects the growth
Of the whole area. Hoboken'S increase is
the smallest, The gain in ten years being
1n960. or 49, per cent. Hoboken. like
Manhattan Borough. has little more free
room 10 grow in. and its advance proha-
bly, reflects the advance made i'm Man
haitian since 1900 Jersey City has reg
istered a gain Of G1.34G. or 29.7 per cent.
7 hat viii probably run about parallel
with the gain in Brook yn. except in the
outlying parts. Bayonne the Sma Hest of
the three Jersey cities had the IargeSi
relative increase-22 SO. or G9.7 per
cent. BayoHne is an Industrial rather
than suburban residence section. and
IFS growth viii probably be found 10 he
= little larger than that of Queens B0r-
cugl. which has also enjoyed an eXrep-
fiomal industrial development or of The
Bronx, which has been taken up for pur-
poses both Of residence and OF manu-
facture
New Jersey IL forging ahead rapidly
in population. There is a steady over
flow into its northern counties from CON
gcsted New York. and its manufactures
are attracting n good deal of alien labor.
The state census of 1898 showed "A gain
of Ii per cent since 1890. and the full
decade will undoubtedly show Il gain of
from - 10 - per cent. Newark. the
Oranges. Trenton, Paterson, Passaic.
Camden and Atlantic City are gaining
- fast as the Hudson River towns, ana
the country districts are not stagnant
except along the upper Delaware River
and in the extreme southern section.
New Jersey gained one Representative in
Congress between 1850 and 1890 and
two between 1890 ard 1900. /, will gain
ut least one more member ia the 1911
spportionment, even if the ratio IL in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-03

District of North Carolina, THE Char
lotte Observer" recently made this In
teresting statement:
If elected, Major Stedman will become
the only Confederate veteran WhoIn
North Carolina Democrats have had IN
either house of Congress for fifteen
years. Populist- Republicc s excepted
North Carolina has sent no Confederate
veterans to Congress since Senator Kan
SONS forced retirement. Unless Gov
ernor Russell very much not Demo-
crat should be counted nominally
Confederate. none of the last four gov
ernors comes under this category In
offices of state and the Legislature Con-
federate veterans have for years been
almost freakishly scarce.
1t cannot be that the Southern Demo
Gratis have ever Intentionally discrimi-
mated against Confederate veterans. The
men who fought and rose TO leadership
i'll the Confederate cause became natural
leaders in politics in their states after the
war ended and reconstruction began. 1t
must be that the newer generation IS
diSpiacing the older a little more COM
pletely in the South than in the North
There are nine members of the Senate
who fought in the Union armies and six
teen Union veterans in the House OF
Representatives. Yet in the South ser
vice under the ConfederaG was much
more of title to political preferment
than service in the Union forces was at
the North. the South being more one
sided politically and more singleminded
in its devotion to the issues Of the past.
The submergence Of the Confederate
veteran by the politicians of a later
genera ton only proves that in politics as
in every other line of activity the ma
ton is rapidly losing touch with issues
and actors in the soul stirring period of
the Civil War
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-03
LIQUOR AND THE LAW.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: The laws of the country are very
dlligent in endeavoring to protect the life
and health of citizens For instance, the
law against the establishment of a NUS
ance in any community is TO protect the
pubic's health; would the law even
consider giving protection to such an IN
stituton for financial consideration.
Yet does It not do that same thing, every
time an enactment is made that gives
license to sell intoxicating drink, which en-
dangers the life and property of every per-
son in the community? Should not every
court hold such enactments as not law
and having no force? Suppose intoxicating
drink was of recent discovery, with. its
damaging effects known, would the govern
ment think for a minute of giving license
for its public sale? J. 4. BROOKS
Bronxville, n. Y, avg. l, 1910
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-03
long TINE SINCE THE WAR.

We called attention not long ago to
the practical disappearance Of the con
federate brigadier" from the roster OF
Senators and Representatives elected
from the Southern States. Within the
last month the number of Senator's who
served under the Stars and Bars has
been reduced by the deaths of Samuel
n. McEnery, of Louisiana. and John w.
Daniel. of Virginia Only six ex-Con-
federates are now left in the upper
house Of Congress-John II. Bankhead
and Joseph +. Johnston, of Alabama :;
James i. Taliaferro. Of Florida; Angus
tls O. Bacon. of Georgia; fernando de
Soto Money. of Mississippi, and Thomas
:. Martin, of Virginia. Mr.. Money Is to
retire to private life next March, and
his successor, John Sharp Williams, was
not born until July 80, 1854. Mr. Italia
ferro has been defeated for renomna-
ton in the Democratic primary in Flor
ida. and his successor. Napoleon Bona
pnrte BroWard, despite his name, also
never had a chance to distinguish him
self on the battlefield. There are left in
the present House Of Representatives
only six Confederate soldiers George W.
Taylor and William Richardson We're
elected from Alabama, Leonidas T. Liv-
ingston from Georgia and George w.
Gordon from Tennessee. The other two
represent states not i'll the Confederacy
j. +. {. Talbot coming from Mary
land and A. W Rucker from Colorado.
Comment ng on the nomination of
Major Charles NJ. Steilmau as the Demo
cratic candidate for Congress in the 9Th