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A FOE or "USURPATTON."

No man in public life has a keener
vision for ''usurpatiOns" than the Hon.
Joseph w. Bailey, of Texas. He can
see them clearly with the naked eye
when 20 other observers they are stu
huh down on the horizon. Mr.. Bailey's
moral and emotional resources have
been many times taxed by usurpatiOns
which be has had TO rebuke in his long
career as a defender Of the Constitution
and an exemplar Of the simple. not 10
say ascetic, public views and virtues
illustrated and inculcated by Thomas
jefferson. The Texas Senator has palpi-
tated with indignation at the usurpatory
encroachments OF the Executive on Con
cress. Of one branch Of Congress on the
other branch. OF the judiciary on the
coordinate departments Of the federal
government, OF the federal government
on the state and OF both the nation and
the states on the rights OF the individ-
ual At last be has ferreted new
aeen: 81 criminal aggression-the party
national cOnventiOn-which be says, :
trying 10 lay unholy hands ON the leg
''islstive powers repOsed IN Congress
"under the Constitution"
The latest deplOrabfe manifestation
OF the usGrpatOry mania takes the form,
50 Mr. Bailey says, OF outlining legisla-
ton IN national platforms and thus
trenching on the prerogstives OF states
men who 60 20 Washington with the
notion that they are capable Of framing
al the necessary laws on their own In
iflative and out OF the storehouses ~
their own inner consciousness. The
Texas Senator thinks that II is an in
suit 10 picked intelllgences Ike bis own
10 quote as a limitation on his legisla-
tive activity the crude opinion Of a
gathering % delegates. weary and mud
died, perhaps, and awkwardly fulfilling
the improper function OF determining
what laws shall be passed IL their party
H. intrGsta5 with power IA the nation.
Mr.. Bailey has no high regard for
national conventions. He has been a
Delegate 20 several Democratic ones,
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DECENTLY AND nv ORDER

The doing OF the right thing I'm the
performance Of one Of the most solemn
and responsible functions OF human A.
tiyity ought not 10 be 50 uncommon or
exceptional as 10 require or even 10 in
wife notice. The melancholy truth *.
however. that for many years trials for
murder in this city have been marked
either with tedious delay or with sensa-
tional exploitation and advertisement.
or with both, sometimes Ia a degree which
has cast grave doubts upon the integrity
and justice OF the final result.
With memories Of such regrettable
conditions fresh I'm mind Il is pardonable
10 remark with much qualification upon
the dignity the expedition and the iust
prOpriety with which the trial last week
OF the murderer Wolter was conducted
Ills crime was invested 10 an. exceptional
degree with those morbid and sensational
characteristics which on former occa-
siOns would have afforded opportunity
for and temptation 90 the evils which we
have deplored. But under an earnest
sense Of duty the temptation WAS Success
fully resisted. Immediately upon the dis
cOvery Of the crime the machinery OF
Justice WAS set at work with the smooth
ness and determination which should al
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and in a speech last fall at Dallas. Tex,
thus summarized his convention i'm
pressions and experiences:
II 1.-THE conventionl generally assem-
bles in midsummer: Il lis hot, IL is dusty.
and If YOU ever saw a body OF men as
semble in the heat and dust YOU know
what hurry they soon fall In. All the
delegates are mad, most Of them are IN a
hurry and some Of them are drunk; and
yet they want to prescribe how / shall
redeem my oath TO DO my duty faithfully
as God has given me to see IL.
The Texas Senator's repugnance 10
being dictated TO by men working in the
heat and dust and assailed by the cray-
ings OF thirst does credit 10 his sense
OF the fit and the unfit in the scheme of
politics. should a legislator at Wash
ington. cool. unhurried and not tor
mented 10y parched throat. be expect
ed 10 subordinate his ripened Judgment
TO the fool declarations" Of national
Platforms prepared under the conditions
which the Texas Senator has so pict-
uresquely described: Perish the thought.
Delegates 10 national convention
should be made 70 know their place.
They are theoretically intruSted with
the power TO declare what the party
believes i'm and what it viii do if sue
cesSful. But let them humbly remem-
her the Limitations under which they
work and i-Zt venture 10y putting too
many details" into a declaration Of
policy 10 embarrass the statesmen who
are subsequently TO translate the plat
form into legislation. That is effrontery;
that is ''usurpation." We trust that Mr..
Bailey will rebuke presumptuOus ma
ti0nal conventions by Introducing and
passing law requiring them 10 eschew
the concrete and the explicit and 10
avoid all declarations which cannot be
read forward. backward and criSscross
with the same degree Of intelligibility
and instruction.
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BIG ZIONIST CONVENTION.

% Pittsburg. April 2S.-The thirteenth an
nual convention Of the Federation of Amer
lean Zionists will be held in this city on
July s. and ;. The Zionists OF Pittsburg
are already making elaborate preparations
for the reception OF the delegates and for
facilitating the carrying out OF the i'm
pOrtant business that will come before this
gathering.
One. of the interesting features OF the
convention will be the discussion of tho
preparations to be made for the reception
OF Herr David WOlnsohn. president OF the
International Zionist organization. who g
preparing for "a tour OF the United States.
to begin early next November. 1t Is ex-
pected that he will be accompanied to this
country by Professor Frantz Oppenheimer.
whose plan OF cooperative colonization In
Palestine was enthusiastically Endorsed at
the last congress. IL is likely that the con
vention will devote part Of its attention 20
the furthering of Professor Oppenheimers
plan in the United States
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General o. o. Howard and others already
hanging there

General o. o. Howard and others aireaoy
hanging there
pa" said the Senator's little boy, look
i sIsq up from his book wna' Is e''
"a Nemesis my son." replied the Sen
ator. wearily. 'is female ,.s - ne.
that you foolishly promised TO assist Inc
Catholic Standard and Times.
Years ago. when smoking had fallen upon
evil times. King Edwards example Ohen.
OF course, he was Prince or Waies) old
much to do away with the prejudice against
the practice prevalent in England, although
Queen Victoria always retained her dislike
for the habit and never countenanced
smoking IN any place she frequented- Ills
majesty" saws NJ. A. p. smokes an
Egyptian brand Of cigarette. but. though
he may be said to have popularized cigar
cite smoking among Englishmen. the cigar
Is his favorite smoke. and 1t Is attributed
TO the Kings love for good cigar after
dinner. without which he considers the
meal incomplete. that during the last dec
ade or so. after-dinner smoking has be
come so fashionable. King Edward rarely
or never smokes a pipe"
Customer-why do you wear rubber
gloves? -
Barber-So that my celebrated hair
grower" won't raise hair on the palms OF
my hands.
He sold bottle.-Tid Bits.
A statistical diagram has been made by
the Bell Telephone Company. entitled a
Telephone Pyramid which shows the
increase in the use Of the instrument since
1876 In 1882 the 10000 point had nearly
been reached and in 1890 the 10000 mark
was passed The increase was compare
lively slow until 1900. when upward or
900 telephones had been installed. From
that time on the pyramid has grown by
great bounds and on January l or TINS
year the chart shows 100000 in use. or, as
the compiler SAYS. "a telephone TO each
seventeen OF the total population OF the
United States"
Little Willie withers Is the brightest
and hest behaved boy in the neighborhood-
ALLOW me to deduce-
go ahead" -, =, 49,.
You don't know little Willie ana you We
recently been chatting with his mother. -
Birmingham Age-Herald.
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THE TUBERCULOSIS WAR
A Long Fight Must Precede Sub
stantial Victories.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: With reference to the editorial IN
ycur issue OF April 16 "Is the Campaign
Futileg' allow me to say that nothing was
further from my thought than to deny the
existence of a gratifying decrease since
1890. both in the general death rate OF this
state and In the death rate from tubercu-
losis. Nothing was further from my desire
than TO deprive those who are engaged IN
the warfare with tuberculosis OF the credit
which Is Justly their due
The study was begun in the hope OF
reaching a different result. The negative
conclusion was published in the beEef that
the movement might be helped by knowl-
edge of the truth, and might easily be re-
tgrded ty an unfounded sense OF security.
We have entered not upon battle or even
a campaign. but war. and are not yet
able to rejoice In victories. demonstrated
by statistics, other than those which are
entailel By general medical and sanitary
progress w. r. NlbLCOA-
Cornell University. Ithaca. n. Y, April p.
1910
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THE FRENCH PROGRAMME

The very marked and beneficent con-
structive activities Of the French par
Lament which has come to an end
will probably be rivalled if not sur
passed by those of the new parliament
which is TO be elected to-day. pro-
vided. Of course, that the expected
happens. as It sometimes does in
France, and the existing government
secures a substantial working majority
in the Chamber of Deputies. That such
will be the result OF to-day's polling
seems quite probable. partly because of
the excellent record of things done by
the government i'm the last few years.
partly because Of the need and the prom
Use Of things to be done. partly because
Of the lack of leadership and Conference
in the mixed Opposition, and partly be
cause of the temperament which the
French nation has developed
Mr.. BRAND has been outspoken and ex-
plicit i'm his statement of policy. and ha :
definitely promised TO enter upon an i'm
portant programme of legislation. The
first item is that Of the income tax. rne
late Chamber sent 10 the Senate a bill
dealing Herewith, which was intendel
10 correct some of the anomalies of the
Old system. That bill will. Mr.. BRAND
promises, be used as basis OF new legis-
latlon in accordance with republican
principles. The second measure Of i'm
portance will define and regulate tbe
status Of employees Of the state. II is
hoped, so as to do them justice and SO az
To protect the nation against occurrences
OF the postmen's strike and similar revo-
lutionary movements. The third item
will be that of electoral reform. concern
Ing which Mr.. BRAND has fOreshadowed
action Of the greatest Interest. Recog-
niZing the benefits which have accrued
10 the republic from the scrutin d'dyYon-
diSScmcm and the quadrennate. he re-
CARDS those systems as obsolete and pro-
poses that hereafter members shall ha
elected by departments. if not from still
larger divisions, ard that they shall be
elected not for four but for nine yea :.
with one-third Of the Chamber retiring
every three years, thus making the
Chamber perpetually existing BODY.
after the fashion of the United States
Senate This would certainly be a great
Innovation In popular parliaments. and
while IL would obviously invest the
Chamber with "A degree OF stability and
conservative continuity which il cannot
have under the present system. IL is Ger.
tainly surprising t. have sIch n scheme
propounded by "A minister who was LATE
ly reckOned almost Socialist and who
even still ranks as Radical
These three items alone constitute =
formidable programme, seing how in
tensely controversial at least two NJ
them are. But IL Mr.. BRAND secures n
good majority I'm the Chamber we NAV
expect him, with his marvellous energy
and resolution and his unsurpassed anal
tiles OF leadership, 10 press them TO a suc-
cessful issue. There can be no douht
that, as he himself has said, France f.
weary Of strife and desires, as she needs
an era OF peaceful development. TN.
republic must be recognized as an estab-
lished fact, secure against either mon
archy or commune. That is undoubtedly
the determination Of the great majority
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AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
fFrom The Tribune Bureau.1


v,-,sht,s,or Anr,r zs.-Tne President dis
cussad Legislative matters with about hfty
Senators and Representatives to-day. Sen
ator F-Ikfns discussed the Interstate COM
merce hill Representatives Oimstead and
Crumpacker talked about Porto Rican
legislation. Senator Burton. among other
things. discussed the rivers and haroorS
bill and Representative Parsons talked
about the conservation BILL
President Taft has addressed letter 70
Richard c. Adams. OF Washington. VINO
represents the Delaware Indians In Claims
against the government. In which he says;
II am In favor OF facilities for the hearing
of those claims as much as possible, but
am opposed 10 the reopenins Of the Indian
citizenship roll. II seems TO me IL would De
Ike opening a PandOra's box"
Professor and Mrs. Hugo Mdnsteroers. OF
Cambridge. Mass. were luncheon guests at
the White House.
Among the Presidents callers were Gov
ernor Noel OF Mississippi. the Secretary or
the Interior, the Secretary OF Commerce
and Labor who introduced Professor F. r.
Smith. of the National Physical Laboratory
Of Great Britain; Professor William feaser'
Of the German branch OF that Institution
and Professor Ia Porte. OF France. VINO are
comforting with Professor 9. w. Stratton'
OF the Bureau OF Standards. TO determine
on an international unit Of electricity; SEN
ators Warner. Stephenson. Jones. Smith, OK
Michigan; Taylor. Gamble and Burton
Representative Mckinley. who was accom-
panied by Andrew Russell. State Treasurer
Of Illinois. Representative Hamer, who was
accompanied by Il. F. O'Neal. Republican
state Chairman Of Idaho: Representative
Edwards, who introduced Harry c. Ever
sole. OF Owsley County. KY. candidate Tor
United States Attorney Of the Eastern
District OF Kentucky: Representatives Nc
CURE OF Oklahoma: Burleson. Smith, OF
Texas: Keliher. Peters, Slemp, Dwight.
Murphy. Goulden. Hill. GOebel, KOpp. Miller.
of Minnesota; Bennett Cline. Lonsworth.
Stafford Calderhead, Knowland and Moss
The President, Frank b. kellogg, Captain
Butt and General Edwards played golf on
the Chevy Chase links this afternoon
Mrs. Taft. accompanied by her house
guest, Mrs. Frederick Eckstein. OF Cincin-
natl, attended the Marine Band concert In
Potomac Park this afternoon.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-04-24
HEROES OF HEALING.

It Is not easy TO imagine a more
worthy candidate for the reward OF
heroic merit than the man who imper-
illed his life and sacrificed his health
and his physical happiness in order to
demonstrate the nature and devise a
preventive Of one of the most dreaded
and mosI deadly Of human pestilences.
Those who remember the horrors Of
yellow jack" n generation ago and the
panic which the occurrence of even a
single case Of il on our shores inevitably
inspired, and who can judiciously con-
traSt those conditions with the immu-
nifty and the serene confidence In security
which now prevail. can estimate in part
the service which was rendered to hu-
manity through the processes of which
this mans voluntary sacrifice was an
essential part.
The case is an overwhelming re-
preach, too. 10 those who, selflshly Sc
cure from evil through the results IF
such a sacrifice. lightly talk of the
UselesSneSs of It all. of the folly of vivi-
section and of the unwillingness of men
to undergo any part of the pain which
for the sake of mere morbid curiosity
they wantOnly infict upon helpless ami
mails. The fact is that a number or the
most important triumphs Of the healing
art over disease and death have been
won through experimentation upon liv-
ing bodies and there is little reason
for suppoSing that they would or could
ever have been won In any other way
It is also q fact that the men-Pasteur
being one of the fOremost-who did this
work subjected themselves 10 perils aud
pains so great as to be almost incOmpre-
hensible to the common mind and doubt
less quite SO to those who unthinkingly
condemn them. Nor is il less a fact that.
as this case Of ]. X. Kissinger, now
pending before Congress for relief. re-
minds us, not a few of these pioneers of
the healing art have not hesitated TO
offer up their own bodies as living sacr1-
fees for the saving of the nations.
Such men we hold TO be among the
worlds greatest heroes. man of or
binary fibre may, I'm the enthusiasm of
the moment and encouraged by COM
radeship, lead the van and give his life
in bayonet charge. But TO enter the
laboratory or the lazaretto, in solitude
and with cold elaboration, and there
submit TO infection or incubation with
a lOathSOme, painful and probably fatal
pestilence in order that others may be
protected from its ravages or cured of
its attacks, requires a quality of mind
and a fineness of soul for which no
praise can he too high and no reward
too great
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THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.
IFrom The Tribune Bureau

From The Tribune Bureau
Washington, April 23.-The Ambassador
from Great Britain went 10 New York this
morning, and from there will go West for
an extensive trip Mrs. Bryce. who Is now
In England. will return in May.
The Ambassador from Germany and
Countess Won BernstorT and Countess
I.uise-A Alexandra Won BernstCr1 will leave
here either tomorrow or Monday morning
for New York. from which city Countess
Won Bernstorff ana her daughter will sail
fer Europe on the Kronprinzessin Cecilie
on Tuesday.
Baron AmbrOzy left here tonight FOR New
York after being entertained at dinner by
friends, and on Tuesday will sail on the
same ship with Countess Won Bernstorr
for Europe. After visit IN Austria, he
will go 10 his new post in Rome.
The First French Secretary and Nine. de
Peretti de la Rocca will leave the capital
on Monday for Mexico. where they will re-
main for some months. Mr.. de Peretti
de la Rocca will attend to official affairs.
and his wife. who IS a native Of Mexico,
will visit her family.
Lieutenant Camperio. italian naval at
tache has returned to Washington from a
visit TO Nova Scotia. He will spend the
summer in Italy.
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PRINCETON ORATORS GET PRIZES.

Princeton. n. j.. April es.-The result OF
the annual Baird pre- contest. open 10
members OF the senior class of Princeton
University was announced to-day Jesse
Hermann. of Stirling. n j.. won the slC0
prize for the best speech; IL. NJ. McDer-
mott Chattanooga. Tenn, $50 for the best
oratory; G. NJ. Irwin. Overlook. Penn.
$50 for the best delivery: Herbert Jones.
Chicago. $50 for the best poetry: c. r.
Small. Harrisburg. Penn. honorable men
ton. The prizes of $40 and $50 for the best
disputations were awarded. respectively, To
Jesse Hermann ana II. s. Waters. OF
Yonksrs
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FRANKLIN PORTRAIT AT $500
Total Now S26,488 rs at Edwin Bah
cock Holden Sale of Americana.

Portraits OF Benjamin Franklin were the
feature Of the sale OF the Edwin BabcOck
Holden collection at the American Art Gal
1eries yesterday afternoon, when 1897 was
realized, making total of s26,4SS 70 for
the three days sales. The sale was con-
Quoted by Thomas f. Kirby.
The highest price. $500. was paid by
'Dodd'' for a mezzotint Of bust of Frank
lin, after a painting by G. W. Peale. de
picting the American Minister at the court
OF France with Ions hair and spectacles.
This proof is considered the most valuable
item I'm the Franklin collection. "DOdd''
also paid 800 for a mezzotint OF Frank
lin, three-quarter length. seated.
The sale will be continued tomorrow az
ternoon and evening.
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NEW YORK SOCIETY.

IL anything were needed to emphasize the
fact that the summer is approaching randi
.ly, II would be found In the fact that the
most notable wedding OF the week. from
the point OF view of the fashionable world
will take place. not In the city. bur IN the
country. Ii Is the marriage OF Miss Eliza
beth ). Morgan to De Lsncey Kane jay.
second son or Mr.. and Mrs. Augustus Jaw
ana IL VIII be solemnized on Saturday next
at the Westbury home OF the brides per-
ents' Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin ID. Morgan.
Among those missing from the scene viii
be Peter Augustus Jay. the brother Of the
bridegroom. who is on his way to Cairo IN
take uD his duties there as principal repre-
sentative Of the United States. and Mr.,
jaw. who was Miss Susan McCOox a daugh
ter OF Colonel John j. McCook. For the
last wear they have been In Japan. connect
ed with the American Embassy there
Manv weekend parties will be given I'm
connection with Miss Morgan's wedding an
the various country houses in the West
bury. Meadow Brook and Hampstead dis
tricts. and MIR. and Mrs. Mackay I'm par
tlcular VIII have a number OF friends M
their place at Roslyn. where they will spend
the summer. despite all the reports about
their having taken house In London for
the season In fact. the MorganJay we'd
ding on Saturday next will prove the be-
ginning of the gayetiss that always char
acterize the Long Island early summer sea
son.
Another wedding OF the week il that Of
Miss Anita Ingersoll. eldest daughter OF
Mrs. Robert TAYLOR Varnum tn Roxer NJ
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The arrest of General Estenoz, the
head Of the Independent Party OF Color.
may further arouse racial animosities In
Cuba. and If 1t does the fact will be re-
grettable. He seems. however, to have
been trying hard to make a political
frebrand Of himself, and was probably
bound to make trouble whether he was
arrested or not
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-04-24
SENATOR DANIEL GOES HOME.

DaytOna, Fla. April 3.-Accompanied by
several members of his family and his
physician. United States Senator John w.
Daniel. who has been seriously i'll with
paralysis here for more than month. left
DaytOna this morning for his home. at
Lynchburg. Va. His condition was reported
as satisfactory
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-04-24

Remembering his repeated disappoint-
ments last year when expecting a visit
from the Zeppelin airship at Berlin,
Kaiser Wilhelm changed his policy in re-
viewing his fleet OF dirigibles on Fri
day. He travelled more than three
quarters of the way to meet them. The
Kaiser has evidently heard of Mahomet
and the mountain.
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of Frenchmen, ana for the execution oi
II the nation is prepared to take what
ever steps may be necessary. 1t Is with
such ends in view that Frenchmen VIII
90 70 the polls to-day.
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Ifiuporis Grihntre.
SUNDAY. APRIL "a, 1910.

This netrspcpcr is Otrnod aud pub
NSlcd Dr. The Tribune Association, q
Nclr York corporation; Office aud pri'1-
cjpGl place Of business. Tribune Build
iHg. No. la Nassau street, AetC YORK: ;
ogden Mis-. president: ogden II. Reid,
secretary: James n. Barrett. treasurer.
The address Of the officers is me Office
o. this newspaper.
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1t Is not stated whether the goddess
who has just been stolen from the Met
ropolitan Museum is any relation to the
Star Eyed Goddess Of Reform.