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New-York tribune., 1910-02-27
At rHE WHITE HOUSE
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teb es-The President toio
.osontative Hamilton to-day that. "niio
" ,;a rot ueut his Alaska measure I" "
80. with the rest Of the administr al'o'
a,,ras n. would like to see the Dill en-
acted ,,.iv. Of
Senator Peprose was at the exeeutiNe
s.es but said his visit had nothihs ~
with the Philadelphia strike
Ar taft will attend the annuai oi
of tho League of Republican state C1
of the District of Columbia AT 'he
ton Hotel on April 9. having accep'eu
i,yi+ation presented by John Hays nam
mond. E. c. Snyder. g. A ochuiut -,
G. Crockett John G. Capers, Weo'.o
,;,ger phiIip Buttner. George L. Whltiord'
Marion Butler, William L. Syinons' m
lam TYLER Page and John r. Berg.
On April the President will go TO bai'i-
more to attend a dinner In honor Vi ~
w H. Welch. On the Sd or 4tn OF 'fie san.
month ne will attend the 1nterhatioiia'
gathering of the four brotherhoods OF ran
road employees at Worcester, Mass
invitation was presented by COMMITTEES
of railroad men, accomI anied oy oe"a.o'o
Lodge and Crane and Representatives
Weeks and Mccall.
Senator Bu1keley introduced coInniittee
representing the New England Arbitration
and Peace Congress. Arthur Can Desrii,
the chairman, Invited Mr.. Taft to atteho
one of the sessions of the Congress al
Hartford on MAY g TO IL. The Presloehl
will give an answer later
The President will probably stop an hour
or so in Buffalo on March Is, on MS way
from Chicago where he goes 10 attend lhe
St. Patricks Day dinner of the irish Eel
Iowship Club on the 17th- He Will also
attend the dinner of the Rochester Nhaih-
Der of Commerce the 18th
F. B. McKevitt, H. A. F'airbank. l. b.
Devices Charles B. Bills and George W.
Bisbee of Sacramento. who are In ASH
ington in the interest of the Cahforhia
fruit growers were introduced TO the Pres
ident by Representative Hayes
Wade H. Ellis the new chairman Of the
Republican State Executive Committee OF
Ohio, and Representative Nicholas Long
worth, who is spoken of as the Repuohcaii
nominee for Governor of Ohio. discussed
the political situation in their state with
the President a. a conference "nlch asst
ed more than three hours.
The Presidents callers included Senators
Overman Burrows, Stephenson, Lorfner,
kean Warner and Simmons. Representa-
tives Hughes of New Jersey; Caldernead'
Palmer, Cooper of Pennsylvania; Nichols
Dalzelt Burgess. Brownlow, Folstead'
Washburn Hull. Foster. Olcott. Martin
and Bartlett ex-Senators Hemenway ana
Butler ex-Representative Watson, the Sec
retary of the Navy, the Secretary or 'he
Interior the Secretary OF Commerce ana
Labor and the delegates attending the
weights and measures convention at 'he
Bureau OF Standards.
Mrs Taft has received handsome water
color panel, bunch of carnations, inc
work of Princess Koudachen, Wife or tho
Russian Minister 10 Denmark, VINO IS
noted for her work In water colors- mo
panel was presented to Mrs. Taft by Mrs
Maurice Francis Egan. wife or the Ameri-
can Minister to Denmark.
New-York tribune., 1910-02-27
TIE LORDS ON TIE Lords.

An interesting suggestion appears in
the coniunCtUre of two items Of news
from the British Parliament concerning
what is perhaps the most important
issue now before it, One is that Mr. As
guith has told Mr.. Redmond that ne is
not yet able 10 say when he will pre-
sent his propuSa Is for dea ling with the
question of the House OF Lords. and the
other is that Lord Rosebery will on
March Il move that The House of Lords
itself seriously and practically take up
the matter Of radically reforming itself
int" strong and an efficient second
chamber. The inevitable suggestion is that
there may he close and consequential
connection between the two announce
nent< and That Mr.. -sSquith may be
puTpoSely waiting To give the House of
Lords chance tv reform itself and to
see what lis plan Of reform will be.
We have hitherto pointed out some OF
tle embarra ssments which the Prime
Minister would suffer if he should him
self undertake the task of prescribing a
reform measure for the peers. and which
indeed the House of Commons would in
evitably incur in moving for q recon
stitution Of the other and AT least nom
inally coordinate branch of the ma
tional legislature Almost any plan
which was conceived in and emanated
from the Commons would be regarded
ip&o fGct0 with resentment and antag
enism by the Lords. While one originat-
ing amon. the Lords themselves would
through that circumstance be commended
to their favor Now, Lord Itosebery has
for years cen 4 conspicuous advocate
of reform of the house of which he is
one of the foremost members. He was
the head OF a committee which about
year aSu made the first really practical
Recommendation of a plan for such re-
form The late Marquis of Salisbury. il
is true in 1898 introduced a bill for the
reconstruction OF that chamber, but Ii
IL probable that neither he nor any Of
his colleagues expected its enactment
But Lord Rosebery and his colleagues
Oh his committee were very much in
earnest and were full of hopes that their
plan would form the basis of achieve
ment
IT is interesting 10 recall that only
two Liberal peers-Lord Courtney and
Lord RibbleSdale-were willing 10 serve
on that committee. and that consequently
all the other members were Conserya-
tives. Nevertheless. the committee unan-
imously reported in favor Of the imme
diaie reform IF the House of Lords
The general principles Of their plan were
that the house should be much reduced
in numbers. and that what we may call
the divine right of peers" should be abol-
ished SO that while none but peers might
sit in the upper house 40 man should
sit there simply beca use he was peer.
New-York tribune., 1910-02-27
THE y WS THIS MORNING

CONGRESS- The Senate was net in
eral Lew Wallace were delivered. and
considerat ton Of the postoffice approprla-
ton bill was continued.
FOREIGN-Prernier Asquith had an
audience with King Edward. and there
were rumors that the division in the
Cabinet had been ended by the adopuon
Of an elective system for the upper
house. Fears were expressed in
Paris that the Turko-Bulgarian situa-
ton might lead TO war = A great
boom in rubber shares is going on In
London. and many new companies nave
been formed - The Dalai Lama IS
OF his way TO Peking. where he expects
his authority TO be indorsed by the gov
ernment as against the petty Chinese
officials in and near Lhasa- == EX-
President Roosevelt, his son Kermit and
other members OF their party arrives in
Gondokoro. Soudan. on the Belgian gun
boat Boch - The Car left Tsar-
skoe- -Selo and drove into st Petersburg
where he called on King Ferdinand OF
Bulgaria President Wheeler OF the
University of California delivered his
farewell lecture at the University or
Berlin: the students presented TO him
silver cup.
DOMESTIC.-Giffor Pinchot. testify
ing before the BaIlinger-P inves-
tigating committee. declared that Secre-
tarv Ballinger had been unfaithful to
the public interests, had deceived Presi-
dent Taft and should be removed from
office President Taft sent a spe
cial message 10 Congress urging legis-
lation for the Improvement OF the per
sannel Of the navy. -- After day or
comparative tranquility. several riots
marked the caTmen'S strike IN Philadel-
pllia. one man WAS killed ana
more than A dozen others were injured
in clashes with The state notice in the
steel strike at South Bethlehem. Penn
= Sena tors Wainwright and New
comb said al Albany that they would
Iress their resolutions for a general in
vestigation OF legislative affairs. =
The Controller Of the Currency suspend
cd F. 8. Pepper. the bank examiner who
examined the books Of the wrecked Ma
tional City Bank. of Cambridge. Mass.
last December. An early morning
fire destroyed d Dartmouth College
7nr~mito,y al Hanover. y. H. the stu
dents barely escaping with their lives
and losing all their effects # An
italian. recently arrived from Palermo,
as arrested at New Orleans in connec-
tio1 with the assassination Of Detective
Pe1rosino. of this city.
CITY-Stocks were weak =- Miss
Eleanor Robson and August Belmont
we-e married at the formers home \
Morsignor Layelle - Failure Of the
National Packing Company to produce its
books in the meat indictment cases in New
Jersey may lead to an application for the
dissolution OF the company. 4
mn~gPT Of Florida tobacco growers WAS
formed. The dinner Of the Amen
4f,-ner at the Waldorf WAS marked with
the usual number Of stunts" and SONGS.
= Mayor GaEnor viii appoint COM
niuee Of one hundred citizens TO greet
eE- President Roosevelt on his return. in
June == The Mauretania had such
stormy weather off Queenstown that the
r-ilnt was unable TO leave the snip and
brought 10 New York
THE ATHER.-Indications for to-
dav: Probably rain. The temperature
YESTERDAY: Highest, 20: lowest. 90
New-York tribune., 1910-02-27
+i,a Edjtor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir This little item quoted from another
paper, | clipped from your issue OF the
24th:
DR. Charles Eliot calls billboards ugh
frrs A Bostonian Is never at sea Tor an
expressive word, even If he mas 10 Hiahe
ii himself
Some of the most delightful nonsense IN
Alice in Wonderland is the talk Ahce
had with the Mock Turtle and the Gryphon'
They were discussing what they had
learned at school.
II couldn't afford to learn it., said the the
Mock Turtle with sigh. l only LOON tiio
What was that inquired Alice.
.Reeling and writhins, of course; 10 negia
then the different branches CT arithmetic
ambition. distraction ugllhcaflon ana oe-
rison." .,io.
The Gryphon lifted up both paws IN sur
Never heard of uglifyinge" p" it e1elaim ed
You know what to 6eauu1y is' Sup
YES" said Alice. doubtfuily; 1t means
-to-make-a -anything-pretuer. .s
well then" the Gryphon went on, II
YOU don't know what to uglify Is, you are
a simpleton-
There we have it; and it would seem
that Dr. Eliot had enough to pear win
his shelf of books and his New Reilglon'
without accusing him of coming that great
word agility: no one would have thought
of it but Lewis Carroll, that great man,
the delight of children and the soiace or
a weary world. D l." AZ
Palatine Bridge, Feb. %, 1910
New-York tribune., 1910-02-27
THE Fl GITITE LANA.

The precipitate flight of the Grand
Lama of Tibet from Lhasa to an asy-
lum somewhere in British India marks
the elimination of an epoch In that part
of the world The beginning or the END
occurred some time ago, when BRUSH
expedition invaded the mysterious pre-
cincts of the Forbidden Land ana us
Holy City. while the Chinese government
maintained an Indifferent II not an ap-
proyiDg attitude toward what few
wears earlier would have been deemed
monstrous sacrilege The next step was
the Dalai Iama's own act in making a
iunketing tour through China. as q re-
suit of which be dive:ted himself or the
last remains Cf the divinity which FOR
ages had hedsed him and his predeces-
sors about After that there was moth
ing for il but to regard Lhasa as any
other city and to replace the oDsolete
hierarchy Of the lamaseries with the
constitutional authority of the Chinese
government
Thus practically ends the story Vf
Tibet as q land of impenetrable mySter!
and of sacerdotal rule. and of anomalous
status as at once the vasSal and the
suzerain of China. We may expect II
now to be opened to civilization and to
commercial intercourse. like the rest of
the empire of which it forms part.
That it will be economically an impor-
tant factor may be doubted, unless great
mineral resources are developed among
its mountains Agriculturally and indus
trially it will not compare with the bulk
of the Chinese Empire. while its inac-
feasibility would In any case seriously
handicap its commercial development
Perhaps the most important consldera-
ton Is that there will now be clearing
I'D of the anomalous political situation
which has hitherto prevailed. through
the making of Tibet amenable 10 the
common International laws and customs
Of the world
New-York tribune., 1910-02-27
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
FOR A FACTORY SCHOOL.
Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: ct is q saying of Carlyle that there
is nothing more pathetic in the world than
a human being desirous of knowledge and
unable to get It.
There are certain sciences which are
allied to mechanical arts. ALGEBRA
geometry. chemistry. drawing. These are
things that you need in factories Inc
schools and colleges can teach these SCI
ences but when it comes to handling tooiS
and operating machines. the school canho.
compete with the factory. That training
must come from the factory, and so nave
dreamed of a sort of combination schooi
and factory. The farm and the iac.ofs
create wealth. and the more the brains OF
the workers are trained. the more wealth.
can be created and the higher wages pe
paid | would have in every manutact-
uring community university extehsioi'
courses.
These are quotations from recent au
dress by President Schurman or Coiheii'
Would not New York State be aloeu III
maintaining her commercial supremacy III
DR. Schurmans plan could be put ili'o
operation" W. PIERREPONT WHITE.
Utica. n. Y. Feb %. 1910.
New-York tribune., 1910-02-27
COURTESY ~ EXPLORATIONS.

From the exchange of friendly letters
by Captain Scott and Commander Peary
regarding the proposed .'me"ican expe-
dition to the Antarctic il is clear thu
one possible objection to the enterprise
has been removed. No party from this
country will intrude on the British ex-
pIorer's territory. It is also known that
while Sir Ernest Shackleton is eager 20
try again he has temporarily withdrawn
from the field. Whether OF not he was
restrained by considera ton for Captain
Scott. he is at present not to be reck-
oned with.
There is another man, however, whose
opinion Of the American project it would
be interesting TO learn. This is Dr. W.
S. Bruce, who has several times in the
last year announced his intention to
visit Ant8rctica as suOn as he can raise
money enough 10 pay his expenses. Late
London papers represent him as exert
New-York tribune., 1910-02-27
pE EZZLLAG.

Mystifcation as to the purposes "'
the osborne Democracy has been greatly
increased by the speeches deiiVereu oii
Friday night at gathering vi 'n
Rrooklvn section Of the SaratoS arm.
of upIift. Mr.. Edward F. Shepard, one
Of the founders of the new orSanl]a-
ton. made the rather puZZllng deciara-
tion that il took no credit Whatever loi
The tragi-conlic elimination OF the Holi-
William I. ConnerS. Mr. ConneTs was 10
be effaced. in the opinion of the public,
I'm order 10 demonstrate 1.-The dawn OF a
tomorrow He was to be decapl-
tated in order TO get the upllft guillotlue
into practice His taking on was 10
serve as a warning that the powers OF
darkness in the Democratic party had
been routed and that the seats or the
mighty were TO be turned over TO the
occupancy of the regenerated ana the
regenerating.
Probably Mr. Shepard thought that
the Corners elimination was too easy
He did not want TO divide the credit of
that melodramatic exhibition of nara
kiri with Mr. Murphy. Yet if the new
Democracy had no hand in forcing the
dagger upon Mr.. Conners and takes no
interest in his fate what is TO become OF
It's declared intention to rid the party
OF the leaders who have brought 1t to
its present low estate? Conners is gone,
but there are other leaders as unre-
formed and. unreformable as Conneis
who remain In his speech TO the
II nSh did
not conceal his belief that the Demo
cratic party is still in need OF a thor
ough evaneeliZation. In spite Of the
tragi-comedy enacted at Albany he de-
clared:
AS between the evils OF the Republican
orga nization already in power and the
evils manifesty awaiting the state If II
were turned over to those leading the ex
listing Democratic organization the voter
felt that natural Indifference which
makes US rather bear those ills we have
than fly to others that we know not of"
in other words. while the majority of
voters had lost faith in the Republican
party they had long ceased to have any
faith whatever in the Democratic party
Is faith in the Democratic party TO be
recreated by a continuance of Mr.. Muir
phys leadership in the city organlZa-
tiCn and the extension of his influence
as a factor III Democratic state conven-
tons: II would seem as if the logical
policy of the Osborne league should
have been TO use the Murphy organlZa =
ton TO get rid of Corners. to claim full
credit for The effacement Of the diScred-
tied state chairman. and then to rally
the anti-Murphy city and upstate forces
in an effort TO depose Murphy and estab-
iish the league securely in party con
1rol. Mr.. Shepard and Mr. Osborne, If
they have such a pr-ogra mme. are care
fully concealing it, But if they have
no such programme they are deludinS
themselves and the Democratic voters
who hope for betterment. What shall
Il profit the party in the state to have
got rid of Il knee-sprung and chicken
hearted tyrant like Conners if il has TO
remain under the domination of the
harder and more truculent tyrant ny
whom ConnerS was overthrown:
New-York tribune., 1910-02-27
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.
From The Tribune Bureau1

From The Tribune Bureau.l
Washington. Feb 26.-Baroness Hengel-
miler has changed her plans. and will
ke passage with the Ambassador on the
Lusitania on March 9. They will probably
leave Washington next Saturday for New
York They expect TO return in June. and
will go 10 Bar Harbor for the early sum-
mer.
The Marquis of Villa lobar. the retiring
Minister from Spain. will leave Washing
ton On Monday Tuesday for New York
and sail from there the first part of the
following week. The minister took official
leave of the President yesterday.
Count Ladislas Cziraky. Austrian attache
who went to Palm Beach and other South
ern points with the Count and Countess
Szechenyi last week. returned TO Washing
ton with them to-day.
Countess Luise Alexandra Won Bernstorf
joined her parents at the German Embas>tt
last night, after two weeks visit in
Canada.
New-York tribune., 1910-02-27

That would have made the upper mouse
an elective body, but chosen in differ
ent way and with slightly different
qualifications from the Commons; some
what as our Senate differs In election
ard oualicat ions from the House or
Representatives. 1t would really seem
,lat If the House of Lords on Lord
Roseberys initiative should adopt some
such measure for its own reconstruction
il ought TO be possible for the Govern
ment and the Opposition to agree in,
befitting and non-contentious manner
upou the constitutional reform which
both regard as inevitable and which is
one of the most important in the history
of the Mother of Parliaments.
New-York tribune., 1910-02-27
Peoole and Social Incidents

guests at dinner tonight 70 meet Mr.. and
Mrs. George Marshall Allen and Miss ster-
ling OF New York. and Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
Meirs, Of Philadelphia In the party were
Erigadier General and Mrs. Sharpe. Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Lee. viscount and WIS.,
countess de Sibour. Miss Dorothy Williams.
Major General Bell. Rear Admiral OMAN
and Count Cgglas, Swedish secretary
Mr. and Mrs William Phelps Emo had
to dine with them tonight Justice and Mrs.
White, the ex-Secretary OF the Interior and
Mrs. James p. Garfield. Mr.. and Mrs. Pey-
ton Russell. Mr. and Mrs John Biddle, Mr.
and Mrs. John r. Story. Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Weightman. Mrs. Alexander shep-
ard Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Oxnard. Mr.. and
Mrs. Cuthbert Brown, DIR. and Mrs VIII
mer and DR.. Cabell
Mrs Garret A. Hobart entertained lArzs
luncheon party to-day and a dinner party
to-nighs.
Justice and Mrs. Holmes entertained
guests AT dinner Tonight
New-York tribune., 1910-02-27
A QUESTION OF MORTALITY.
he Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: How is il that the supporters vi
yivisection print over their own signatures
the fattering statement that Dr- fleAiie'.
of the Rockefeller Institute, has dlscoVereo
a cure for cerebro-spinal meningitis, which
has reduced the mortality of that disease
from so Ger cent to between 10 ana ~ pei
cent (see letter to Life of FeprudiS Il
signed by c. A McWilliams when' accolu-
ing to the weekly reports of the New 1ork
Health Department. there were in greatei
New York from the week ended january
. 1909. to the week ended January l. lsi0
3s9 cases of cerebro-s spinal meninglus anu
$50 deaths; death rate Of over ~ per cent
instead of between Is and ~, as was stateu'
These figures can be easily verified
And vet. it is the anti-vivisectionist VINO
is always being accused of false statement
ard hysterical eXaggeration
QUEsTIONER.
New York Feb. %, 1910.
New-York tribune., 1910-02-27

ing himself actively to secure the needed
pecuniary backing. DIR. Bruce's plan, as
publicly outlined last April. is to explore
the southern shore of Weddell Sea. an
extension OF the Atlantic to land In
Coats Land and to attempt to cross the
continent to Ross Sea, on the edge or
which Captain Scott's base of operations
will be.
Dr. Bruce has good reason for lively
some one else will go to Coats Land
within the next year or two He has
been there before In fact, he discovered
Coats Land in 1904 OF that and OF
various important observations which
DR. Bruce made at the same time. Sir
James Geikie, president Of the Royal
Scottish Geographical Society, was i'm
PEELED 10 say that .'the scientific results
"he obtained have not been surpassed
"by the work Of any living explorer in
high latitudes'' Commander Peary's
suggestion that an expedition from the
United States should try to reach the
pole by way Of Coats Land seems. there
fore. to indicate unfainiliarty with DR..
Bruces work and purposes. for in his
letter to Captain Scott. dated January
81. 1910. Commander Peary refers to the
vicinity Of loss Sea as 1.-The region you
have made your own. thus recognizing
the title of the English explorer to
route previously selected. Under the cir
cumstances it is not. impertinent to ask
if DIR. Bruce has not similarly made
Goats Land his own. and established
prior claim to the region.
New-York tribune., 1910-02-27
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY,".
/ From The Tribune Bureau. !

u
Washington Feb 26-The ice-Presieient
and Mrs Sherman were the guests for
whom Brisadier General and Mrs Clarence
Their other guests We're the Postmaster
General, the Secretary OF the Interior and
Mrs. BallingeI, Senator and Mrs Root
Representative and Mrs. Nicholas Long
worth, MIR. and Mrs Lawrence Townsend.
Colonel and Mrs. Charles L. McCawley.
Miss Mary Williams. John Barrett and c.
r. Simpkins.
Mrs Robert ". Patterson's musical
with Geraldine Farrar, prima donna.
and Edmond Clemert. tenor. of the Metro
politan Opera Company, and Tanara at the
piano engaged two hundred people for to-
night and a number OF hosts entertaining
dinner parties took their guests there.
There We're twenty numbers on the pro-
sramme and rounds ot applause greeted
each Mrs. Patterson wore a gown of dark
blue chiffon. American Beauty roses We're
used in tall vases as house decoration.
The Secretary of the Navy and Mrs Meyer
took their house guests. Count and Countess
Szechenyi and among the other guests
were the French Ambassador and Mime.
Jusserand, the German Ambassador and
Countess Won 3ernstorff, the Danish
Minister and Countess Moltke. Baroness
Rosen, Mrs Richard Townsend. Miss
Mathilde Townsend and Countess Gizyeka.
The Assistant Secretary of State and
Mrs Huntington Wilson entertained the
Japanese Ambassador and Baroness Uehids
at dinner Tonight and had as their other
guests tho Salvadoran Mister and Sonora de
Meila Senora de Garcia Velez. Senator and
Mrs Burrows. Senator Stone. Senator and
Mrs Clark. Mitchell lnnes. British counsel
lor; the Russian naval attache and Nine
Vassilien: Mr. de Thai. Russian second
secretary: Mrs. Hanna. Mrs. Norman Will
Jams. Miss Flora Wilson, Miss Christian
of Richmond. Va; John X. Stauffer and
Ransom Miller. OF the State Department.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edson Bradley entertained