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New-York tribune., 1910-01-06
FOR DES MONIES Plan
Davis Bill Would ProUide 1t
for Buffalo.
IBy Telegraph to The Tribune. ]

Albany, Jan. "a bill introduced by Sem
ator Davis to-day TO revise the charter OF
Buffalo makes the first provision for q city
In this state OF the Des Moines commission
scheme of municipal government The
question OF adopting this plan was submit
ted to the people OF the city at the last
election and the plan was sanctioned by
considerable vote. II provides that all can
didates for elective municipal office except
judge of the City Court are to be noni-
mated by petition. In voting for such offices
electors have an opportunity TO express
first, second and third choices. The second
and third choice votes are to be counted
in case any candidate for given Office has
more than half the total number Of votes
as first choice. and the usual method OF
counting second and third choice ballots.
such as is in force in various Western
states, is provided.
The charter provides for Ave executive
departments-public affairs accounts and
finances, public safety, streets and public
improvements, parks and public property.
All executive, legislative and judicial pow
ers OF the city government are vested in a
council consisting of the Mayor and four
councilmen. The revised charter Is to go
into effect after il has been approved by
the electors in a referendum.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-06
NEW SENATE BILLS.
Agnerc Puts in One Against
Publishing Betting Odds.
rav TeIegraph to rhe Tribune. !


Albany. Jan. 5-Twenty-seven bills were
introduced IN the Senate to-day. Many of
them were measures which had done ser
vice before. Senator Agnew put in the
bill making Il a penal offence TO advertise
CT publish betting odds While Senator
Agnew would make no statement on the
subject, it is expected that he will handle
the legislation to prevent oral betting rec
ommended in the Governors message
Senator Hill, OF Buffalo. has again cham
pioned the cause of the suffrasists by intro
ducing the concurrent resolution TO amend
the constitution BY taking out the word
male"
Senator Grady introduced concurrent
resolution prohibiting the purchase or sale
Of stocks or bonds on margin
Other bills were introduced by:
Senator Travis, appropriattng 10000 for
the construction of the Long Island State
Hospital In Flatbush, Brooklyn.
Senator Burlinsame. reducing the price oS
gas in the Goth and 3lst wards OF Brooklyn
to 30 cents a thousand feet. On account OF
being sparsely settled these wards were
excepted In the so-cent gas law.
Senator -KIssel. amending the primary
election law. by provicing among other
things for monthly meetings of political
committees. to be held at public expense.
Senator Ki5sel providing for the distri-
button IN polling places on registration day
of printed copies of proposed constitutional
amendments. showing the new matter IN
italics and the matter eliminated in brack-
cts.
Senator KisseI. making ii unlawful TO
sell commodity IN general use cheaper IN
one section than in another.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-06
CHINAMEN ON TRIAL
FOR BOWKUM MURDER
Chm Ian, Girls Com panion,
mistaken ON Stand.

The state brought forward a list Of slant
eyed Witnesses. and the defence whole
sheaf Of sviIIy brilliant weapons, yester-
Gay, IN the arst day of the trial ~ Low
Tang and Low Shaas IN Tho Criminal
Branch Of the Supreme Court Neither
witnesses nor knives told much about who
really killed Bow Kum.the Chinese girl who
was found stabbed to death IN the rear OK
No. II Mott street in the early morning OF
August IS. 1903
Chin Lin. who brought the girl from San
Francisco and lived with her here. support
ed an hours cross-examination with almost
Oriental poIiteness. and replied TO the point
blank demand Did you XIII Bow Kun
with this knife with a patient NO"
The defence centred its attack upon Chin
Lin. bringing out from Patrolrnen Paul and
Stevenson that he had given the first alarm
OF the murder and that later examination
had shown blood on his hands Annie Ste
yens. janitress OF No II Mott street. vas
an incidental witness. and detectives testi-
fed that Chin Lin gave the Information
which caused the arrest OF the defendants
The fighting tonzs entered the trial IN the
person OF Lee Ching Kong. who wore the
Chinese dress and testified that he was now
president OF the On Leong Tong He told
the story which the prosecution maintains
to be the true one-that Low Tang. one OF
the defendants. came to him prior TO the
murder and demanded money from the
tong as reprisal for the injury Chin Lin
had done In stealing Bow Kun After the
crime Lee Ching Kong had talked with
Tom Lee, the Mayor OF Chinatown Lee
had said. Wen get Chin Lin out OF this.
but won't be a party to putting the crime
on anybody else
ing Song could only say that he was a
partner OF Low Shang in laundry IN
Brooklyn, and that on the night OF the
murder the latter had left the shop at
o'clock and had not come back TIL ths
next day.
Then Chin Lin. wearing American clothes
and at times dispensing with ths inter
prefer who had aided the other witnesses.
told his story. retold II. told II third time.
and went into particulars "a to what ver-
sion he had told the police and what the
Coroner's jury, without falling into any un-
expected pitfalls. He met Bow Kun in San
Francisco, in Mexican Alley. While he was
out of the city she had been taken over
by a mission. He told Mrs. Cameron. the
rnatron, that he had a wife in China. and
so could not marry Bow Kun. according
10 the American custom" Accordingly, he
married her according 10 the Chinese Gus
tom. in the mission. with Mrs. Cameron
as a witness
Coming to New York, he looked for work
unsuccessfully. joined the On Leong Tong,
brought on Bow Kun and lived with her.
Three weeks before the murder the two
defendants came and demanded s3,eoe for
the girl, which he refused They threat
ened to kill him and Bow Kun, he said
The night of the murder he was AZ No
y Mott street with his brethren TIL
o'clock in the morning. Going 10 the room.
he found Bow Kun lying prone and bioedy,
a knife still In the wound He raised her
hands, and then fed 20 give warning.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-06
TO HELP GOVERNOR.
Short Ballot Organization VIII
Take Up Hughes Reforms.

Following the Governors advocacy of an
appointive state cabinet to take the place
of the present state elective officers. an
nouncement was made last night OF the
preliminary organization, TO De known as
The Short Ballot Organization, which has
for its chief object the furthering of meas
ures looking toward reduced ballot.
woodrow Wilson, president of Princeton
University is named as president OF the
new organization. and Richard s. Childs Is
secretary Its list of vice-presidents in
cludes the names of Winston Churchill. or
New Hampshire. and Horace z. Deming.
of this city. The advisory board includes
Lawrence F. Abbott, Henry Jones Ford,
Norman Hapgood and Professor F. J.
Goodnow, of Columbia University.
The prospectus sets forth that the great
power OF machine politicians rests on the
fact that an unwieldy ballot makes II Inn
possible for a voter to choose candidates
upon their merits, except in the case Of
important positions which lead the ticket.
and as the short ballot principle" they
advocate, first, that only those offices
should be elective which are important
enough to attract and deserve public ex-
animation, and, second, that very few Of
fees should be filled by election at one time.
so as TO permit adequate and unconfused
public examination of the candidates.
The short ballot, they say. will concen-
trate the attention of the voters sharply
upon the candidates named, and later. dur
ing their terms of Office. the small number
of elective officers would enable the pub
lie to place a concentration of RESPONSE
biiity upon them, which under the present
system is so divided and scattered among
hundreds Of elective officers as 10 nullify
its effect.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-06
FIGHT IN TEMPERANCE RANKS.
Prohibitionists' Attitude Too Radical
o. r. Miller Believes.
IRv Telegraph 70 The Tribune.

by Telegraph 10 The Tribune.l
Albany. Jan. 5.-It looks as though the
temperance reformers, who all these years
have been conducting the fight against the
old order of things in close harmony, are TO
have a fight among themselves. Temper
ance and prohibition organizations of the
state are arranging to hold a meeting here
next Wednesday TO consider excise legisla-
ton. But from the attitude taken by o.
r. Miller secretary of the International
Reform Association. who appeared at the
Capitol to-day. there will probably be little
agreement. He is particularly incensed
against. the ProhiDitionists and their state
chairman. c. E. Pitts.
Mr. Miller is of the opinion that the posi-
tion taken by the Prohibitionists in asking
for the abolishing Of intoxicating drinks
altogether is too radical. He intimated that
there would be some unpleasant things said
about Mr.. Pitts and the. Prohibitionists at
the meeting next Wednesday, it being be-
lieved. he said, that the Prohbitionists were
accomplishing nothing in the cause of tenn
perance because they were trying TO go too
"a
New-York tribune., 1910-01-06
MUCH TIMBER GOING TO WASTE.
Enough to Supply State with Wood for
Years, Says Whipple.

Albany, Jan. 5.-That there is sufficient
timber lying on the ground and going to
waste in the Adirondacks to supply New
York State with wood for years is pointed
out by Commissioner Whipple of the For
est, Fish and Game Department IN his an
aual report TO the Legislature to-day. He
advocates a constitutional amendment Civ
ing the state the right to build roads
through the forest preserve, to use the
great water power annually lost, to permit
the leasing OF camps sites and to remove
down timber, thus bettering conditions as
to fire protection.
The Commissioner also recommends the
ecquisition of million acres OF land In the
Adirondack preserve and four hundred
thousand acres in the Catskills; that the
law permitting the shooting of buck deer
until November 15 be repealed, and that land
dedicated to tree growing and planted with
trees be relieved from increased taxation
for thirty years
New-York tribune., 1910-01-06

to section providing that the party en-
bIems shall be printed to the left of the
first column. so that electors, by putting
a cross in a circle surrounding a party
emblem, can vote straight ticket
IL is contended that the advantage of
the Massachusetts, ballot. IN encouraging
the electors to vote for the best men, will
be done away with by this provision. This
proposition has been discussed by the
Citizens Union, and ics secretary. j. O..
Hammitt, announced tonight that the
union, as well as other advocates of the
Massachusetts plan, would oppose the bill.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-06
CITIZENS UNION TO OPPOSE BILL
Measure Said to Provide for Massa-
chusetts Ballot Without It's Advantages

by Telegraph to The Tribune.l
Albany. Jan. 5.-Assemhlyman Ward,
who at the last two sessions of the Leg
isIature, fathered the legislation of Her
bert Persons, to-day introduced a Massa-
chusetts ballot bill with the advantage of
the Massachusetts ballot left out, accord
ing TO the advocates of that plan. The
bill amends the election law by providing
that on the election ballots the names Of
candidates OF the several parties shall be
printed in columns under the designation
of the respective offices in alphabetical
order and shall appear only once. This
part of the bill is favored by the Massa-
chusetts ballot advocates, but they object
New-York tribune., 1910-01-06
HARMON PLANS LONG FLIGHT.
Will Attempt Balloon Trip from New
Mexico to Atlantic.

Los Angeles, Jan. 5.-Clifford B. Harmon,
of New York, announced to-day that if he
could obtain proper gas supply at Albu-
querque. n. NJ, he would make that place
his starting point for a trip in his ball
loon the New York, in attempt TO break
the worlds distance record. reaching the
Atlantic Coast. if possible. His reason for
not starting from Los Angeles is that he
fears he would meet adverse winds. From
Albuquerque the prevailing winds would
bear his balloon eastward.
Declaring that he knew nothing of al in
junction issued against him at Buffalo,
Glenn H. Curtiss arrived to-day and an
nounced that he would enter as many of
the events at the aviation meet next week
as possible.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-06
APPROPRIATION BILL IN.
Calls for About S2S, $50 900, an Increase
Over Last Year.

Albany. Jan. 5.-The annual appropriation
bill, which ordinarily does not reach the
Legislature until the session is we'll under
way, was introduced in the Assembly to-
day.
The bill calls for appropriations amount
ing to- about s23, 100000, an increase over last
years bill of about s., ,355, 600. The constitu-
tional amendment increasing the salaries
OF Supreme Court justices adds about
SSS0,0o0 to the states expenses and the gen.
eral growth of state departments accounts
for the increase. In the prisons and lunacy
departments the increased prices OF foods
and supplies generally are an important
factor
New-York tribune., 1910-01-06
THE BALTIMORE WORLD" SOLD.

Baltimore. Jan 5-''The World" an af-
ternoon newspaper, was sold at auction,
following a receivership. this afternoon for
So, 800. The nominal purchaser was Will
helm L'Allemand. but he acknowledged that
he had not bought on his own account.
Charles H. Grasty. formerly of The Even
ing News" would neither confirm nor deny
a runor that he was the buyer, but said
that he would issue a statement in a few
daVS
New-York tribune., 1910-01-06
OPPOSED TO INCOME TAX.
New Jersey Legislature Expected to
Vote Against Amendment.

LBy Telegraph 10 The Tribune
Trenton, n. J.. Jan. 5.-There is a strong
probability that if the amendment to the
federal Constitution providing for the i'm
position OF an income tax comes before
the Legislature. which meets on Tuesday,
IL will be Overwhelmingly defeated
Nearly all of the Republican leaders in
the state including the two United States
Senators, are said 10 be strongly opposed
TO the tax, on the ground. they assert
that the greater part of the impost
would have to be paid by the four states
OF New York. New Jersey, Ohio and Mas
sachusetts.
II is not known whether or not Governor
Fort will touch on the income tax in his
annual message on Tuesday.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-10-18
President Joshua Strange.

the governor or other authority, and
among them were many men Of ma
tional and state reputation who are
engaged in agricultural pursuits.
President Joshua Strange of Marion,
Ind, in opening the congress stated
briefly the purposes and aims Of the
organization. He said:
"The Farmers National congress
stands for better conserving the nat,
ural resources OF the country, espe-
cially the soil; for the prohibition OF
the manufacture and sale Of intoxi
eating liquors as beverage; for river
and harbor improvements; for APP
prevail of natic-ei and state forestry
bureaus; for the work of the national
bureau of animal industry. for the ma
tional reclamation service; for good
roads; for teaching agriculture and
domestic science in the public
schools; for an extension Of the par.
cells post and consolidating the third
and fourth classes Of mail; for the de
velopment of inland waterways; fol
the United States department of agri
culture; for restriction of immigra
ton; for federal aid for extension
work; for an improvement of tenant
conditions; for federal aid to sec
ondary agricultural schools. The con
gress is opposed to the existing free
seed distribution; to gambling in
farm products, to ship subsidies, te
weakening the oleomargarine laws"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-10-18
WANTS A BIG NAVY
COL. ROOSEVELT MAKES SPEECH
AT APPALACHIAN EXPOSE
TON IN TENNESSEE.
SAYS ARMY is LARGE ENOUGH
Ex-Presldent Declares Most Practical
Policy for United States Is to
Prepare for War In Time Of
Peace.

Knoxville, 1enn-Theodore Roos J.
welt, in emphasizing the necessity OF
the United States maintaining larger
navy in his address at the Appala-
chan exposition are Friday, used
the expression "Spe; softly but use
the big stick"
The ex-president made his utterance
in telling the immense audience that
the most practical policy 10 for the
United States to talk peace but pre-
pare for war.
IF war were to come" Colonel
Roosevelt proceeded. "our army would
do well, provided we gave 1t chance
to prepare for 1t in time Of peace.
Don't forget that that Is essential. Re-
member that If we do have any war
we will have a real antagonist. 1t Is
not necessary that we have big
army, but we must certainly have a
great navy.
in going through Europe what i'm
pressed me greatly was that nothing
commanded more respect from the
European powers than our battleship
voyage around the world into the for
eign waters. The foreign nations do
not care about our Fourth of July ora
tons. They do not care when we get
out and tell what we can do; but
when we sent our battleships around
the world-something no foreign pow
er had ever dared to do-well. that
impressed them.
81 am a strong believer IN peace,
but l believe the stronger navy is
needed"
Colonel Roosevelt reached Knoxville
after stop at Bristol, Va. where he
launched into a defense Of his new
nationalism and told the crowd tina :
he was fighting the bosses in New
York He found the crowds that
turned out for him all along the way
through Virginia and Tennessee to be
equally demonstrative as those on the
western trip.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-10-18
GREAT RELIGIOUS MEETING
National Council and Societies of Con-
eregatonal Churches Are In
Session In Boston.

Boston.-The meetings of the Ma
tional Council Of the Congrega-
toinal Churches of the United
tional Societies which began Mon
day in fremont Temple, brought to
Boston scores of leaders of the de-
nomination from all parts of the
United States and several from
abroad Addresses were made by
H. M. Beardsley of st. Louis on I'm
dustrial Obligations" by President
Ozora s. Davis of the Chicago Theo-
logical seminary; on Immigration In
Relation to the Church" by President
Marion l.. Burton of Smith college;
on THE Religious Education Of Con-
gregational Youth" and by President
Albert Parker Fitch of Andover Theo-
logical seminary ON Partnership OF
the Church and the Theological Sem
mary" The stated sermon was
by President w. Douglas Mackenzie
Of Hartford Theological seminary.
The sessions last through October
20. and among the interesting features
will be the celebration of the centen-
airy of the American Board.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-10-18
CORPORATION NOT NEW IDEA
Long Known. Though Their Fornna-
ton Was Not Popular Until About
Fifty Years Ago.

The corporation in business Is no
modern institution. The Romans
formed ecclesiastical corporations. and
the idea was carried to England,
where the instrument which created
the corporation was originally granted
by the king. Later it was granted by
acts OF parliament, a separate charter
act for each charter.
In America the state constitutions
require that in al possible cases the
legislative body pass general acts
whereby, by simply filing a prescribed
instrument, persons may form a cor
poration without applying to the legis-
lature for permission. The state Gre
ates the corporation. which possesses
powers only such as the state per.
mits.
The Dutch East India company, or
ganized in 1902. was the first great
joint stock company whose shares
were bought and sold The first rec
ord OF a corporation in America was
In the colonial times, when the colony
of Connecticut in 1871 chartered the
London Society for Trade and Com.
merce. In 1895 the Connecticut Land
company was organized and dissolved
in 1909. s.
The formation OF corporations was
not popular until the middle of the
nineteenth century: In fact, but few
were organized until fifty years ago
The modern corporation having stock
and stockholders came into general
prominence since the days of Black
stone and Kent and can only be gov
erned by modern laws. Today the
corporation Is an absolutely neces-
gary form of business organization,
and its use Is constantly increasing
and extending.
There are but two forms of bust
ness combinations available for the
conduct of a commercial enterprise.
namely, partnership and corpora
ton. The one is easily entered into
and as easily dissolved; the other is
formal and permanent = National
Magazine
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-10-18
WARsHIPS GO TO HONDURAS
Gunboat Princeton Is Dispatched by
State Department to Aid DavilIs
and Protect Americans.

Washington. -Responding to an ap
peal from the Honduras govern,
ment to the state department, the
United States gunboat Princeton is
headed for Amapala, revolution hot
bed, to look after American interests.
Gen. Jose Marie Valladares. the
commandant at Amapala, self ap
pointed to the post three years ago,
and too influential to be ousted, is a
figure of interest to the Tegueigalpa
government.
Valladares is credited with having
made threats against the foreigners
about Amapaia and the consul corps
there protested to President Davilla,
who promised to remove him. But
the government realized that action
might fan the revolutionary spark
into a blaze and took additional pre-.
cautions to safeguard the government
interests.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-10-18
She Erred Him.

The opening day of the exposition
brought many street beggars to the
city. At the corner of the Federal
building sat an old man blind and
minus one leg. While the parade was
passing sympathetic lady stopped
and gazed at him in pity.
Finally she approached him and be-
gan asking him questions. She asked
him If he were married, how many
children he had. where he had worked
last, how he had met with the acct
dent that had incapacitated him for
work, and a thousand other ques
ttions.
Finally the unfortunate one became
peevish. Madam" he exclaimed,
harshly, you may think this is an in
formation bureau. 1t is not; it is a
collecting agency. "-Cincinnau Com
mercial Tribune.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-10-18

Though some of the Germans arr
stirred up, nobody else in Europe
sc AS to be unduly excited over En-
Iperor Williams affirmation of the di
wine right of sovereignty. 1t is re
called that he has said something tt
the same effect before Bat it is also
remembered that constitutionalism
and liberal government nave gone
right along. Even Russia, where alb
solutism appeared to have such hold.
has been the creation of a Duma or
parliament which affords the people
"a measure of representation. Then
there are Turkey and Persia, both for.
merly in the grip of despotism, now
tenjoying progressive rule and consti-
ltutional privileges. And Germany it.
self has some constitutional guaran-
tees that the emperor would not
think of molesting.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-10-18

And Always Better Received.
A little encouragement is better
than any amount Of lecturing.