The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-05

proportion of our people feel that We
| ought, within some reasonable time, tC
correct the abuses in the tariff thai
We failed TO correct last year. But we
! don t want TO try TO do this until We
can have the benefit of the services o1
| formation as we need and did not have
at the last session of congress.
How about the tariff board? CoulC
its services be utillzedl' ~
Senator Cummins smiled. He does moi
believe in a tariff board. ''If we de-
not get tariff commission at this ses
sion we shall get one very soon,' hc
said. 'What we desire is tariff com
| mission that sLall be an agency of con
gress, collecting information for con
gress and reporting it to congress. We
think this is the logical way in which tC
proceed, inasmuch as il is congress thai
will revise the law. if the law is to bt
revised. ] am unable to see just what
use the president has for information
on the tariff.
"In the dignity and tboughtfulDess
| that have characterized it's deliberations
| this present congress, the house no less
than the senate, has far surpassed
any that has preceded, said
| Senator Cummius in answer to ques
tion. "As to when the session will end
| ! can make no prophecy, but at the
present rate of progress | can see no
reason why the session should not be
over by the first of July
San Bernardino Celebration.
"The most important event in Cali
fornia this year, from historical
standpoint, is the centennial celebration
of San Bcrnardino, which began May
H. said Il. +. Holden of San Bernar-
| dino. cit was 100 years ago, on May
| 20 TO be exact, that a small band OF
priests from San Gabriel mission ar.
rived at what is now San Bernardino
and established d mission. The spot
where they first halted is to be marked
by a handsome memorial ana the cor.
ncrstone of the new Catholic cathedral
historical tableaux, showing the early
life of the pioneers and the priests was
presented on an immense open air stage.
A band of 200 Cocopah Indians partici-
pated in the big pageant San Bernar-
dino was one of the first places where
the padres established missions for the
Indians of California, and the ancient
city is full Of interesting historical rel.
les. San Bernardians are taxing great
interest in the San Francisco fair,
which is to celebrate the completion of
the Panama canal in 1'l5.'
AS to Weddings.
Bishop William N. McVickar of the
Episcopal diocese of Rhode Island be-
lievos that persons physically aud men.
tally unfit should be prevented by ma
tional alws from marrying, and that A
commission of experts should be ap.
pointed to pass upon the fitness of
would be brides and bridegrooms.
- fully believe that in less than n
generation we shall see national legis-
lation that will check indiscriminate
marriage, and so prevent the propaga.
tjon of disease, mental and physical.
Hundreds of cases are on record of
whole families who are criminals. Sons
follow fathers in evil ways, and genera
I ton after generation is means of
breeding more criminals. Persons -
llicted with tuberculosis should be pre-.
vented from marrying. 1ncipient or
threatened idiocy and insanity should
be treated in the same way. a person
apparently free from taint, yet of n
family in which there was inherited in.
sanity, ought to be prevented from mar
rying. In addition, there are many dis
eases, purely physical that ought to be.
and will be. considered grave enough to
act as bar to marriage, 1t would
probably be necessary to establish
sort Of marriage commission In each