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New-York tribune., 1910-05-01

long Visits TO them from hts room IN the
lower regions of the building, The apart
ment was found and the family ready 70
move. whom it was discovered that 1T was
Nominated I'm the bond'' that no dogs could
bs kent In tn. house The people VIII not
ba separated from their pet. and az last
accounts were negotiating for releaso
from their obIigatIon-''perfeotly willing,
the worian told ths agent Ito gfvo up
lovely fat" rather than tho red pct
.-Yoa, saw that when she married sho got
q titIe?" asked the sweet thing.
yes" answered the most popular CIR! IN
the neighborhood,
Countess. duchess. or whasg
'-Mrs."-Tit-Bits.
How time does run away" unused
merchant at his luncheon club yesterday
1T wifi be twenty-five years so-morroW
since I started IN business" The date
takes me back twenty years more" SAID
one Of his companions. II was In chicago
forty-iye years ago. on May ]. and was at
the station when the body OF Lincoln ar
rived there. 1t was the only time 1 ever
saw whole city in real mourning. ] stili
have the badge I wore and a copy OF Presi-
dent Johnsons proclamation, issued on May
2. Offering a reward OF $4,000 for the capt
urs OF Jeff Davis. and smaller amounts Tor
the arrest OF other leaders You remember
May, 1856; do you wonder that recall the
events of twenty years eariier?''
"They say he got rich quick"
'rHe did. His wealthy uncle died from
heart disea ase."-Detrolt Free Press.
'Ars we becoming cigarette nationF"
asks "The United States Tobacco Jour-
nal" This query is prompted by the sta
tistics OF the cigar and cigarette Indus
tries for the first three months OF the year
These figures show that this output OF
cigarettes in that period exceeded by more
than 10000 900 the output of cigars The
figures are respectively 1,s5s, a69r 22s and l.
7a7, ,S22 sll, In March alone there was
decrease Of more than 100000 in fun sized
cigars throughout the United States and
an Increase of more than 109, 100000 In
cigarettes It is unexplained whether this
condition Is a result Of the high prices OF
food compelling the cigar smoker to take
TO cigarettes, or is q burning protest
against the legislation In many states
against the paper rolls
SET called on Gertrude father last night"
What was the outcome2
'rYNU sea II now,'-BostGN Herald
New-York tribune., 1910-05-01
TEE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONGRESS houses united IN
accepting q statue OF Francis H. Pier
pont from the State Of West Virginia
FoRETGN-King Edward. if forced
En+o noiitics IS likely to follow the views
IF his constitutional advisers: the Union
Ssts desire that the veto question be SUD-
,,,it+ed 10 q referendum without q, gen
eral election: the Liberals oppose the
Man. Forty thousand troops ana
7,olice will be on duty in Paris TO-DAY
10 ouell possible disorders arising from
the May Day parade of sixty thousann
Socialists. the masses are opposed 70 lhe
den, on ctrgtion. = The American I'm
fses1 Is having a difficult task in ar
ranging Mr. Roosevelts reception III
England 50 many requests to entertain
hin. having been received: American arr
has q conspicuous place at the hoZdl
Academy exhibition -. me ne oon aails ~.
Mail" has offered q prize Of $4,000 tor
The first British aeronaut flying from
London 80 Edinburgh = The week
n, Paris showed a sharp fall in rubber
shares. marked Improvement was no.
ticed in the silk trade - TURKISH
+roops defeated the Albanians, cleared
Katchanik Pass and will pursue the
enemy A large procession in Co
nanhagen accompanied the booy OF
Ridrnstjerne Rjornson TO a Norwegian
warship, which will convey 1t TO ChrlS-
+;o,,ia -= w H. Meyers. an American
,t-as robbed Of more than $4,000 while he
slept in a room in a. hotel in London.
1MESTIC.-President Taft sent q
ereciaI message to Congress. urging COM
rletion OF Panama Canal defences by
Y.r,,.T-y r 1913 Mr.. Taft and Sec
rotary Knox We're guests at the dlnner
Of the Chamber of Commerce and Man
l,facturers' Club of Butalo. == Secre-
. t;,r,- Rallinger continued to contradict
charges against him, and defended his
attitude toward the Reclamation service.
=- In an address before the North
eastern Pennsylvania Lehlgh Alumni
Association Attorney General Wicker
. sham pointed out the danger TO repre-
sentative government from factionalisin.
tTTY-Stocks We're weak, = One
7a7an was killed and many were badly
sniured in the explosion OF a large con-
denser of the Sanitary Utilization Com
many on Barren Island. == The DollCe
made raids Oh two alleged poolrooms
. downtown and one uptown. capturing
nineteen prisoners in all and a wagon
load of gambling paraphernalia. -" 1t
was stated that more arrests were eX-
pected to-day in the white slave cru
sade. 80 Forty thousand persons, in
cluding many thousand women, marched
sn the May Day labor parade ---
Charles Katz testified under cross-ex-
3 animation that he understood the jug
: Cling Of Heinze's stock in loans was IN
81 he interest of STANDARD Oil. - Or
vile Wright, the aviator. denied that he
had said flights by aeroplane across the
. Atlantic Ocean were possible - The
oorlnnjttee IN charge Of the Dollar Din
rer" for Lloyd c. Griscom to-morro"
night expect an attendance OF fl1teen
hundred - Mayor Gaynor evolNed a
new rian for the enforcement Of the ex-
else law.
THE ATHER.-Indications for to-
6av. Fair. The temperature yesterday:
Highest % degrees; lowest 46.
New-York tribune., 1910-05-01
BRITISH CHECKs AND BALANCES.


Mr.. Balfour's latest argument against
Mr. Asquith's proposal concerning the
House of Lords will probably impress
the majority Of disinterested observers
throughout the world as the most forci-
BILE which he, or indeed any one, has
yet made. Perhaps there was for polit-
ical purposes some permissibly extreme
accentuation in his declaration that the
United Kingdom was threatened with
a revolution. At any rate, it is quite
obvious that Mr. Asquith's plan, II
adopted, would make a revolution at
any time not only possible but com
paratively easy. It may be that such
a state Of affairs would be desirable.
That is for the British nation to de-
termine. The constitutional fact is
what is of interest to the world.
1t has often and truly been remarked
that the British constitution is far
more elastic, more easily modified and.
in brief, more democra tic than our own
or Frances, and that is quite true.
Our current procedure with the income
tax proposal is a reminder of the in
variable deliberation and the great diff
ficulty attendant upon any amendment
Of the American Constitution; and in
France constitutional change is scarce
ly less difficult. But in the United
Kingdom under existing conditions
the most sweeping and radical changes
In the fundamental law may be effected
in an hour. A simple act Of Parliament
is all that Is necessary; just as though
in the United States q resolution OF
Congress, not subject to review by the
Supreme Court, could recdst the Con
stitution, establish state church, dis
franchise a portion of the electorate OF.
alter the powers of the President.
Americans would probably reject over
whelmingly proposal to make our
governmental system as elastic as the
British now is.
But there are certain checks and bal
ances In the British system. after all.
The chief OF these Is the House of
Lords, the assent Of which Is necessa ry
to the enactment Of any law If the
Commons vote for change In the con-
stituti0n the Lords can reject it and
compel the reference Of IL 10 a popu-
lar vote at the next general election.
Mr.. Asquith, however, now demands
that that check upon precipitate action
shall be abolished and that the power
Of the upper house shall be SO nullifed
that il shall be possible for the Com
mons TO enact any law, regardless of
the Lords. without any reference to the
people. Under his plan it would be
possible for an accidental and tenn
porary majority in the House Of Com
mons to transform the constitutional
disestablish the Church, to repeal the
New-York tribune., 1910-05-01
~z MILLION A YEAR."

Conservat tive estimates based upon
sc+71sl occurrences are that more than
million immigrants will enter the
United States this year. The select few
IF them. from TO 10 per cent of the
most Intelligent, ambitious and thrifty,
nossessed Of most means, viii pass over
fbe border into Canada, TO which coun-
Try fhA best settlers Of the world are
now focking, but nearly If not quite
million will remain in the United
states. the better minority Of them dis
fributed with more or less discretion,
but the poorer majority massed In the
centres of population and adding in
distressing manner 10 the congestion
which already prevails. To those who
confuse bigpess with greatness and
measure the growth Of the country by
means Of the census, this increase OF
population may seem 10 be cause for
pride. and those who imagine that the
best possible course for anybody IN the
world 20 pursue is TO come 10 America
may rejoice, but there are many
thoughtful persons who will regard 1t
se Of doubtful profit either TO this ma
lion or TO the immigrants.
II IS possible that if these multitudes
Of newcomers should be properly dis
1tffn1ted work could be found for them
all without dispiacine native working
men. what IS certain Is that they will
largely increase in many places the num-
l,ers Of the unemployed and that many
Of them viii secure employment only by
UndeTbidding and cTowding out American
tVOrkmen. Net always, or course, but in
far too many cases. they will mean la
American industry lower wages and In
1erior workmanship, which are condi-
fions Numerically opposed 10 the best
interests Of the country.
We do not conceive it 10 be the duty
of America TO endure that process TO
IN indefinite extent. 1T seems 10 us to
be as legitimate and perhaps as desira-
bic 10 protect American industry at
Tiiis Islar5 as az the custcm house.
The plea Of pity for the poor Of other
lands is. well meant but not altogether
We do not relax our protec-
tive custcns duties il order that the fac
New-York tribune., 1910-05-01
A MODERN INSTANCE.
itor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of InS Tribune
Sir: When the personal or property
rights of a citizen of the United States are
taken away by the state in which he is re-
siding, has the national government right
to go into that state and afford the citizen
that protection which the Constitution
guarantees to ali?
do not know that the question has ever
come up. 1t is prompted by my knowledge
of the fact that in a certain state the whole
machinery Of the law-Legislature, courts.
prosecuting off1cers-has been purchased by
a "malefactor of great wealth. and this
power Is being used to injure and deprive
OF his property a citizen OF the United
States He cannot get justice in the state
courts. He has appealed to the national
government for protection. The officials Of
the law department have been studying
over Il for some months. am told.
1t is an interesting question that must
be settled, and speedily.
WILLIAM WHITEHALL
New York. April 26. 1910.
New-York tribune., 1910-05-01
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
[Fror1 TIL. Trthrn. gureanI


washington Apr1I 51.-Mr. and lITs. Will
lam Phelps Emo. who will soon close their
home here for the season, entertained the
Vice President and Mrs. Sherman az din
ner tonight. Their other guests we're
Baroness Uehida, Brisadier General and
Mrs Henry @ Sharpe Mr. and Mrs
Charles G. Bennett Mr. and Mrs Arthur
Lee. General Maxwell. W. Woodruff.
Miss Ellen Woodruff, Colonel and Mrs
Frank L. Denny, Solicitor General and Mrs
Bowers, General Adye, of England, and
Miss Adye and DR. Swisher-
Mrs John ". Dwight will leave here to-
morrow for weeks visit to her sister.
Mrs Frederick P. Reynolds, wife Of Major
Reynolds, at Fort Monroe.
Mrs. Lyman Tiffany entertained num-
Der - guests at luncheon to-day. Mrs.
Henry Cleveland Perkins also entertained
guests at luncheon.
Mrs. A. c. Barney gave her friends a
novel treat tonight, when small COM
pany was invited to see a progrann1e or
classic dances with Galatea. a beautiful
young woman, and Walter Norris stiles,
of Boston, as the features. Lucia Gale
Barber had charge of the programme.
Mrs. Sherman, Mrs. Alexander Graham
III
Mrs. John w Foster, Mrs Arthur Lee.
Mrs T. De Witt Ta1mage and Mrs Nor
man Williams are among the patronesses
for lawn fate TO be given az Airlie, in
Rock Creek Park, next Saturday for the
support Of a nurse for the Instructive Visit
ing Nurses Society.
Baroness Serge Alexander Kortf, former
ly Miss Van Reypen. of Washington, and
now visiting her parents, Rear Admiral and
Mrs. Van Reypen, will head party Of
Bryn Mawr graduates who will go TO Phila-
delphia next Saturday TO assist the Bryn
Mawr students IN a May pageant. when
several plays will be given On the lawn
Baroness Uchida will be one OF the party.
General Adye, of England, and his daugh-
ter, Miss Adye, are staying at the Grafton
for several days, and are being much en-
tertained by their countrynnen of the dipio-
matte corps and others.
New-York tribune., 1910-05-01
4 SP0ILS .JOEER.

The Burlingame bill for the reor-
ganization Of the inferior criminal
courts in this city. which has passed
the Assembly and is now pending in
the Senate, has many excellent feat
UTes, hut it contains one feature Of
extreme vicIouSnesS, which, If not
eliminated. may endanger and perhaps
ought TO endenger its whole scheme Of
reform. This Is the provision intended
TO exempt from competitive eKamina-
tion the chief probation officer and all
the probation officers of these courts.
The bill as il passed the Assembly di-
rectly exempted these officers from Civil
Service examination, but at the hearing
before the Cities Committee last week
such convincing arguments We're pre-
Sented against this exemption that the
committee agreed to strike II out. Sub
seduently. it is understood, Senator
Grady became characteristically active
in behalf Of the spoils system and the
bill was amended so as to declare these
officers TO be "confdentiaT' assistants
of the Judges instead of frankly max
ing them exempt. The purpose thus 10
secure exemption By indirection is
plain. and the plan would probably
prove effective in view Of certain old
dicta of the courts. At least. any effort
after such legislation Of the Municipal
or state Civil Service commission 10
hold the places in the competitive class
would encounter extreme difficulty.
Experience has shown the entire
practicability Of filling these places by
competition. The State Probation Com
mission. after careful investigation. has
been firm advocate Of competitive
examinations. They have proved ex-
tremely successful in other cities of the
state, and whatever criticism may be
warranted on the results OF competi-
ton in this city is fairly 10 he charged
not against competition itself but
against the faulty methods employed
here some years ago IN the making Of
tests. There is not the least reason
10 doubt that under present conditions
a better class of probation officers can
be secured through competition than
by leaving the selection TO Senator
Grady's friends. who are so anxious TO
secure ii. Governor Hughes last wear
vetoed a measure because the force it
provided for doing certain public work
was by it arbitrarily EXEMPTED from
examination, and Mayor Gaynor, on
Friday, rejected a bill for additional
court clerks because it called them
''contidentiaI'' in order to exempt them
from examination.
With these warnings before them the
friends Of this measure would do we'll
to bestir themselves TO secure the elm
ination of this Objectionable provision.
The most enlightened sentiment of the
state is against efforts to circumvent
the Civil Service laws by special Iegis-
lation. 1t is also concerned for the de-
velopment Of a progressive and eff
cient probation system. and opposed to
any faint Of spoils in this humanitarian
work. If this Joker IS not eliminated
there is likely to be strong agitation
before the Mayor and Governor against
the whole court reorganizatio scheme.
New-York tribune., 1910-05-01

Union. to abolish nGbeGs corpus. or 10
change the succession to the throne.
Now. nobody supposes that any such
extravngant things would be done
What Mr.. BaIfour contends Is that the
way should not be opened to a pessl-
biiity of their being done The con-
stitution Of the United Kingdom has
already far fewer checks and balances
than that of any other nation, and he
urges that those which It has ought
not to be swept away. That Is an
argument which appeals not to pard-
sanship but TO reason. With our far
greater conservatism here It may not
be easy for Americans to view the sub
iect as Britons do. 1t is inconceiva-
BILE, no doubt, that Americans would
assent TO the establishment here Of
such q scheme as that which Mr.. AS
quith proposes there. But the matter
is to be disposed Of not by US from our
point of view, but by Rritons from
their point of view It may be, there
fore, that Mr. Asquith's scheme for
abolishing constitutional checks and
balances will be approved. But 1t is
we'll that it should be accurately under
stood, from Mr.. Balfour's point Of view
as we'll as from Mr.. Asquith's; and If
it should be adopted the world would
regard its practical operation with in
tense interest as the most advanced
experiment in government by an un-
bridled democracy which the world has
seen for a hundred years, and, indeed,
which 1t has ever seen on anything Ike
so great q scale
New-York tribune., 1910-05-01
IN TIE BERKSH1RES.
Is releEraph % rhe rrteuns

Iby Telegraph % Ine IriPuNs,
Lsnox. Mass, April S0.-Thousands of
dollars are being expended By the Bsrk-
shire cities and towns I'm preparing their
highways for the automobils business.
which Is now the greatest asset IN the
Berkshire resorts. To take care OF this
business all the hotels have been max
ing changes. adding bathrooms and en-
iarging garages. The strip OF good road
from New York into the region is now
az It's very best having been hardened oy
the spring rains. and Is dustIess. Tonight
there are many Weekend parties at tho
Curtis Red Lion, and Wendell hotels.
brought in by the automobue. This bust
ness has made the resort season open
full month earlier than before and the
volun, OF the tourist business Will exceed
that Of any previous year.
Miss Helen Alexandra and BayaTd Hog
pin will be married ~ Spring lava, ths
Alexandra country place in LenON, early
in June. The date has not been set. Mr..
ana Mrs Alexandre win arrive at their
country place within ten days to preparo
for the wedding OF their eldest daughter.
which will DO tho principal affair of the
Icnox season
Mr. and Mrs Craig Colgate are at ths
Curtis Hotel They have been making long
motor trips from I.snoS throughout tns
hills
Richard G. Dixey. OF Boston, has been az
TangIewood. his country place. Mr. and
Mrs. Dixey. with Miss Mary TapPen. Mrs
DIxey's sister. will arrive soon.
Mr. and Mrs Rooo de Peystsr Tytus en-
tertained the members OF the Massaehu-
setts committee on roads and bridges az
the villa in Tyriusharn this week
George TIFFANY. OF New York. has arrived
AT his country place.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander SsdSwtck have
been entertaining Professor ana Mrs C1sn-
mar, OF Cambridge this week
Mr.. and Mrs. George + Crane and dlugn-
ter, Miss kathesina Crane arrived taia
New-York tribune., 1910-05-01
TIE CABINET.
rFrom Th. Tr.srne Bureau-J


washington, April so.-a1rs- MacVeasn -
entertaining Mrs, Charles MaGVcash. OF
New York, In ths absence of the Secretary
Of tbs Treasury, Who Is spending week AZ
his summer home in Dublin, ~. r. MIS-
Charles MacVeagh Is the niece OF the sec
retery, and her son. Rogers MacVeagh'
spent the Christmas holidays here with his
relatives.
Mrs. Knox Is entertaining fer time her
Younger son, PhiIander c. Knox, tr-. anu
Mrs Knex, who arrived here several days
ago. Mrs Knox entertained them az Yea
a. p1arce Mill. I'm Rock Creek PARK. on
Thursday afternoon.
Mrs j. McGavock Dickinson entertained
the National Society Of Colonial Danes at
tea this afternoon, having to assist her
Mrs, Runtn Cox. president Of the society
The Secretary of the Navy went TO New
York to-day. and will 60 % Boston from
there. He will return on Tuesday.
Mrs Taft went to New York this morning
for a visit Of several days. She has issued
invitations for the first garden party OF the
season on the White House lawn on May 5.
New-York tribune., 1910-05-01
ONE VIEW OF THE MATTER.

To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: / could conceive of nothing Mayor
Gaynor could accomplish that would do so
much for the entire country as his bring
ing to justice the man whose yellow finan-
c1ai success has produced imitators every
where. thus doing tncalcuiable injury to
Journalism, and, through depravcd Journal
ism. intellectually injurtns the community.
w C. CAMERON.
Tonkers, n. z. April 80. 1910
New-York tribune., 1910-05-01

Joseph n. Huston. the architect of
Pennsylvanias new Capitol and one of
it's famous "furnishers,' has been con-
victed of conspiracy to defraud the state.
The looters Of the treasury at Harris
burg have paid dearly for their breach of
trust. Death, imprisonment or disgrace
has overtaken all of them. Pennsylvania
was shamefully victimized, but 1t has
exacted reparation almost unique in
these cases of honest" or less than
honest public building graft.
New-York tribune., 1910-05-01
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

An invitation for a dinner which will
tie top of the card: And now let us have
dinner That's what would have been said
twelve years ago had the hour been later
to because the gathering Will take place
on the twelfth anniversary OF Dewey's
over Montojo in Manila Bay.
MEESTER MARKA TWAIN.
Dey say eet was hees job for joke
An polka fun at 6templa folk
/ don'ta ondrastan.
| neVVa read watts cen hees book;
/ only see da way he look
I only know da man
An eVra time he passa by
He show to me so kinda eye
Ecs beautiful to see:
For dough I'm domha Dago man.
So strange, 90 queer cen deesa Lam,
He neVVa laugh at me-
An dey dat say he only Joke
An mHka fun weeth seempla folk
Ees mebhe dey lie.
Ees mebbe so dey no could SEQ
How moOcha SWeeta charity
Ees sInila from hees eye.
An now dat he ees gon' an change
For 'nudder land dat eesa strange
To heem as eet can be,
i can baylieve day dere are kind
To heem. poor stranger. as 7 find
Dat here he was TO me.
IT. A. Daily. in The Catholic Standard and
Times.
Tipperary is the name OF an Irish setter
which may be the cause OF landlord and
tenant dispute. He is the pet of a family
recently removed to New York from New
England, which consists OF man. wife and
two children While looking for an apart
ment, they have all been living happily al
a family hotel. Tipperar1,~ making dalll
New-York tribune., 1910-05-01
aseluTlnrk. Grihntrf.
SUNDAY. NAY 1. 1910,

T1is newspaper IS o'rued and phb-
Eshed M The Tribune E6socidftoh' o
sero York corporation: offce and pr'n-
cinni ploce Of business. Tribune Build
rfrC. No. 154 Nassau street, Ee'0 YORK;
0odeu NfIIs. president; ogden If fetd,
secretary. James II Barrett. treasurer.
The address Of the officers Is fhe once
rf this newspaper.
New-York tribune., 1910-05-01

With the serious rift IN the Republican
satisfaction of the stand -patter'' element
with the course of Senator Beveridge, there
IS every reason to expect that the Demo
Gratis will carry the Legislature. Even il
they do not succeed, they have managed
to put Satan behind them. The overthrow
OF the Taggart machine was a fine exploit.
Philadelphia Record.
But the machine was not overthrown
and Satan was not sent to the rear
Pluto is still doing business at the old
stand, and his personal counsel is the
Democratic and Plutonian nominee for
United States Senator.
New-York tribune., 1910-05-01

walk of Mr. weston's with significance
far greater than that of any mere pedes-
trian feat. It Is en- exhibition or
demonstration not only cf walking, but
Of temperance and physical sanity ana
rational cultivation and conservation OF
the bodily powers.