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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-02-03
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONGRESS- Senate: The army ap-
,,rouriation and the urgent deficiency
hills were passed, as was also meas
ure providing that principal alio ih leL
est on United States bonds shaA be pay
:abie in gold coin - house. foii L.
sn The census took up most OF the DAY
Tire Democrats making many e&lfa'a-
giant charges.
ToRFIGN.-The food in Paris con-
,fn17ee 70 recede: large gifts have Deeh
received from prominent Americans lhe
authorities are taking active measure
70 prevent an outbreak OF disease -
! fretans have been warned that an at
TeI17pt 10 send delegates to the Greek
National Assembly viii be followed pF
= he reoccilpation of the Island by lnSulaf
--oors No fears Of q bulgarian
Turkish war are entertained N VIENNA
dispatch from san Juan del
SIR Nicaragua. said that the Des MONIES
had sailed to bring back Red cross
workers and that General Chamorro was
ont of from his base OF supplies -
Sir Robert Finley. representing Lord
Sackri1ls continued to introduce 0ocu-
7nentary evidence 70 dlsproFe the claim
of Ernest Henry Sackvllle-West. -
Ten fishermen are known 10 have peen
drowned and forty are missing following
= storm or the coast or Norway -
F350rnst ierne Bjornson. the Norwegian
novelist. is reported TO be dying III Paris
DONESTIC-Con Robert Z.
. Ioearv suggested that the National Geo
graphic Society join the Peary Arctic
club in defraying the expenses OF an eX-
pedition to the South Pole. - At a
meeting of the counsel Of Senator Aids
at Albany the latterS reply to the Con-
ger charges was drawn up; IL is gen.
eral denial - Governor Hughes at
Albany addressed a delegation from
Northern New York on water storage.
- The funeral of General William +.
Draper WAS held ar Hopedale. Mass, and
was largely attended. - The annual
convention Of the State Grange was held
at Watertown. Y. Y. - Ferdinand
cohen. the waiter accused of kidnapping
Roberta p. Dejanon, was held on addl-
fional charges al Philadelphia = Al
least sixty-eigkt miners were killed by
sn explosion in the Palua mine or the
Coahuila Coal Company, at Los Espe-
-suzas Mex. c. L. Warmer, dt-
faultir1s treasurer Of the Big Four Rail-
road at Cincinnati, testified at the trial
of Mrs. Stewart-Ford that he had given
$1,000 a month for seven years to Ed
ward s. Cooke, Of Chicago, but denied It
was blackmail
CITY Stocks were weak -
Henry p Toler, the mad Christian Sci
enlist, escaped from his keepers on
Wards Island and drowned himself in
the East River President Taft
syrcte a letter Of feIicitation to Lloyd G.
Griscom, offering the new leader any aid
3n his power. - The prices OF beef
mutton and pork were raised again, in
spite OF the boycott - The General
Education Board awarded $4,000 to
various colleges. - Collector Loeb
promised to work for baggage examina-
ton reforms on steamship piers. -
II was said that Commissioner Baker
would remain in the Police Department
for time. at least. - Action by the
governing committee of the Stock EX-
change in connection with the Hooking
pool collapse was postponed.
THE WEATHER--Indicati for to-
DAY: Rain. The temperature yesterday:
Highest, Al degrees; lowest, IS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-02-03
WATER SUPPLY Reform.

The suggestion that Mayor Gavnor
may soon take some action which will
put an end TO the present waSteful and
inefficient situation in the water supply
system Of this city is welcome and its
realization is much to be desired. For
many years the situation has been dis
creditable, but for the last few years it
has been such as should be intolerable.
The waste OF city money has been great
and the trifling with important interests
has been scandalous.
There are now three separate agencies
professedly engaged in water supply
work. One of these is the Commissioner
OF Water Supply, Gas and Electricity,
whose Office is a permanently necessary
part of the municipal administration
land in whose office it is also obviously
lesira BILE that the whole water supply
system shall be centred as completely
end as soon as possible. A second is the
Aoueduct Commission, bipartisan po
Iificai body which was constituted many
years ago for special and temporary
PURPOSE, with the intention that its ex-
sstence should terminate upon the COM
uIetion OF the specific work for the doing
of which il was formed. The third is
the Board of Water Supply, non-parti-
san, nen-poIitical body which was con-
stitufed a few years ago also for spe-
eific and temporary work and which is
30 20 out of existence when that work
is completed.
Of the last named it may be said that
II is proceeding with its work in a gen.
orally satisfactory and sometimes highly
gratifying manner, despite the obstacles
which have been presented and the NAL
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-02-03
REFORNER GRADY.

The Hon Tho mas F. Grady insists
that he must be taken seriously as a
reformer in the future Why shouldn't
he introduce direct primary bills and
be the spokesman in the Senate of
Mr., Thomas NJ. OSborne's Democra tic
League, now that his leader, Mr.. Muir
ply, is firm for the appointment of only
the best men TO office and the whole
party is training down fine on diet of
political ideas and virtue? Is NJ.
Grady to lag behind the boss? When
Murphy inspires the Democratic League
with its lofty purposes, shall not Grady
father its bills for it in the Senatet
Grady looks as we'll among the 'unco'
guid'' as Murphy does, and Murpnys
place in that celestial company is secure
now that the Mayor has said a good
word for him and tie Democratic
League recognizes his services to the
cause of a regenerated Democracy.
Mr. Grady realizes, as he reminds his
Republican scoffers, that 1.-The wheels Of
time 90 round" He seems 20 have the
advantage Of some of them i'll this re-
spect He has got ahead Of them in
appearing as q sponsor for direct pri-
maries He has stolen the thunder Of
those Republicans who were prepared to
answer the widespread demand of the
public for a larger share in the: control
Of the parties by the granting of a
grudgfng measure of direct nominations.
Mr.. Grady is ready TO introduce the
system in regard TO local nominal tons
except, of course, in New York City,
where the Democratic League finds every
one saying good word for Murphy and
SO satisfied with his dispensations that
there is no desire for a change. Mr.
Grady, of course, does not differ rom
the league on this point. One advantage
of his early perception of the revolution
of the wheels is that the Republican
opponents. of the Governor. who were
preparing to commit the party to about
the same measure of primary reform
that Grady proposes, will now have to
say to him Me too" or bow little
lower to the Inevitable.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-02-03
dropping IN" ON THE SENATE.


Perhaps no one drops in at the
White House, but that Is not true of the
Senate. The advent of the new Sena tor
from North Dakota was certainly the
most casual in many years. The Senate
was surprised when q total stranger
came in with some informal writing
from the Governor of his state and de
manded seat. No one was aware that
the seat was vacant up to the moment
when the new Senator arrived TO calm
it.
The chief wonder is that the Senator
came from the West, whence new men,
bers are won't to arrive with the sound
of many voices, the roar of mulutuI-i-
nous press agents and the thunder of ap-
pIauding Chautauquas. Before ore SE
them has crossed the boundary of his
own state on the way to the Capitol his
features are as familiar to the country
as those Of a patent medicine "eXam-
pie and views" upon everything under
the sun have covered acres OF white
paper His name is a household word
Though nine persons out of every ten
in the street could not for their lives tell
til" names of ten Sena tors actually in the
Senate, every one in the country knows
the name of the new Senator from the
commonwealth west of the Mississippi
whichever one it is---the maiden name of
his wife the names and ages of all their
children, together with the pedigree OF
the new statesnan's bull pup.
If he is discreet his hand is not visible
In the beating Of the tomtoms. If ne is
not, he makes the noise and manipulates
the spot light openly himself. Perhaps,
like the Hon. jeff Davis, he even invites
the attention of the country by promis-
ing his constituents to enter the Senate
chamber In his stocking feet, shaking
This boots in the face of the old guy on
"the rostrum." In this age of publicity
it is a pleasant surprise to have West
ern Senator drop in unannounced. We
hope more will do il.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-02-03
ROYAL ARCH MAsONs ELECT

Albany. Feb THE Grand CHAPTER of
Royal Arch Masons of the State of New
1ork to-day elected these officers: Grand
hish priest Jay &. Kline Syracuse; deputy
grand msh priest, Edward S. Hill. Peeks
klii' grand king, NJ. +. Hemingway. Troy:
grand scribe, Frederick w. Cutler. New
YORK; grand treasurer. James B. McE;wan
Albany and grand secretary. Christopher
u FOX bunalo. The following appoint
hlehts We're announced: Grand chaplain.
the Kew. Pierre Gushing. Leroy; grand
captain or the host. Arthur Warren. Roch-
ester; grand principal sojourner, Alfred A.
Adams. Newburg: grand royal arch can
taln' Jared A Reed. Newark: grand master.
third ven. Oss'an Lang. Mount Vernon:
grand master second veil, Charles +.
keeler. Potsdam. and grand sentinel. WILL
lam II. Gladding. Albany.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-02-03
THE CONTROLLERS CHANGES.

Controller Prendergast could hardly
take any more important step for the
improvement o. the city's credit than the
one he has taken for reorganization Of
the auditing system of the Finance De
partment, making for the prompt pay
ment of bills against the city. Formerly
there was no system worthy OF the
name. Bills went back and forth to re-
ceiye meaningless initials. The process
consumed endless time and was subject
to frequent Interruptions anywhere
along the line. Fayoritism in expediting
claims was a regular feature of old con-
ditions.
The result was that the city's creditors
found the collection OF bills slow and
difficult This was shown upon investi
cation TO be one cause for the high
prices which the city had to pay for sup
plies Many of the best dealers in COM
modities which the city purcha sed re-
fused TO compete for the city's trade be-
cause Of the delay in payments; those
who did deal with the city charged a
higher price because of the difficulty Of
collection, and others transacted their
business with the city through political
middlemen who were able to hurry the
payment Of claims.
But, as The Tribune showed in its in
vestigation of the Finance Department,
lack of system in auditing bills was not
the sole cause OF delay in the payment Of
the city's creditors. The bad financial
methods of previous controllers have
also been largely responsible. Their
habit of borrowing from one account 20
pay the creditors of another has kept
the creditors of the former account
waiting when money should have been
available, with decent financial man
agement. to meet their claims If the
new controller establishes a system
under which bills will be paid in ten
days after they are presented he will
effect great reform.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-02-03
LINES AND MEASURES.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Party lines are hard to find now
adays. Some say the cause is that policies
advocated by one party are often taken
UP and put into force by the other. In the
last Presidential campaign the Republicans
advocated tariff reform and postal savings
banks, the Democrats an income tax and
guarantee Of bank deposits.
Last year President Taft induced Con-
gress to work out tariff bill and an in
come tax law, thus taking plan advocated
by the Democrats as we'll as one fathered
by the Republicans.
This year he is pushing the postal saw
ings bank plan, which as formulated and
presented provides that money taken In
by the postofices shall be deposited in
nearby banks the banks to furnish security
collateral. bonds or surety bonds, which
means that these deposits are guaranteed
In the one act are embodied plans adyo-
Gated by both parties; posta! savings banks.
Republican: guarantee of bank deposits
Democratic.
Shall we vote hereafter for parties or
policies men or measures?
r. E. LYFORD.
Waverly, n. Y. Jan. 81, 1910
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-02-03
NEW YORK SOCIETY.

,,-s r,senF Stiekney gave a dinner, FOL
,oDs5 bv a dance. al her house. No Sss
Fifth avenue, last night Two otnsr CHI
rers were given in connection with the az
fair ona by Mrs Pembroke Jones ana the
other by Miss Harriet Daily. both of whom
afterward took their guests on 70 the danes.
Mrs. stickney's dinner guests were MI anu
Mrs John r. Drexel. Mr.. and Mrs Car
ence H Mackay Mr.. and Mrs. j. GORDON
Douglas. Mr.. and Mrs. Edmund Randolph.
Mr.. and Mrs Theodore 4 Havenleyer' MI
and Mrs William Forbes Morgan. IT., MI
and Mrs ]. Norman de r. WhltehouseI
Mr.. and Mrs ". Goadby Loew. Mr. and
Mrs. Herbert Hartman, Mr.. and Mrs r
I.orillard Ronalds. Mr.. and Mrs NeWoo-d
Ie Row Edgar, Mr. and Mrs Cortlandr
Field Bishop, Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs, Miss
Carolyn Reynolds. Miss Mabel Gerry, Miss
Anna Sands, Mrs. Adolf Ladenburg. Miss
Isabel Nay, Postmaster General Frank H.
Hitchcock. John Barrett, OF Washington;
Lord Robert Innes-Ker. stephen B. Elkins.
IT., Phoenix Ingraham. Lloyd Warren. Mon
cure Robinson. Alexander S. Webb, j..
Roderick Terry, tr., Henry F.. Eldrtdge,
william T. Eldridge, Henry May and Mr..
de Florez.
The Thursday Evening Club win meet az
Sherry's this evening as the guest OF Ar
thur Sedgwick.
Mrs. J. Stevens CInaan will give dinner
this evening at her house. in East s1st
street.
A benefit performance of The O4d Town
was given yesterday afternoon at the Globe
Theatre Among those seen in the audience
were Mr.. and Mrs. Henry NJ. Alexander.
Mrs Gouverneur Kortright Miss Grace
Henry, Mrs. Edward Van Ingen. Mrs How
ard Dickinson. Mrs David P Morgan, Miss
Adelaide Spohord and Miss Vera Gilbert
Mrs. John R. DTexel will give a small
dance this evening at her house. in East
ed street, and Mrs. Ridgely Hunt will give
a dinner and theatre party for her 6augh-
ter. Miss Virginia Livingston Hunt
Mr. and Mrs H H Thorndike. of Bos-
ton, will arrive In town on SATURDAY. 70 Ia
the guests for a few days of Mr.. and Mrs
Walter : Gurnee, at their house. in FIFTH
avenue.
Miss Olga Roosevelt, who had been =,
town for a few days, returned 10 Uasbir--
ton yesterday
MI and Mrs Herbert Coppeu have gone
10 California to remain until after Lent.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-02-03
4 CAPTFOTS CRITIC.

''The Philadelphia Record a strenu-
GUS and often a prejudiced critic Of the
Payne tariff law, tries hard to belittle
the significance Of the steady increase
in duty free importations under that
measure. It is accustomed to attacking
Republican protective tariff laws as uni
versal interferances with freedom OF
commerce and insurmountable barriers
erected against foreign trade. The fact
that more than half our present pur-
chases from foreign countries are not
in any way affected by the tariff is
naturally disconcert.ng to an anti-Pro-
tectlonist critic. who is bound TO rep
resent the protective system as a de-
vice TO isolate us commercially from the
rest of the world. Says orr Philadel-
phia contemporary:
Republican newspapers are cackling
jubilantly over the computations of the
Bureau OF Statistics which show that
an increasing percentage Of the total
imports comes in free OF duty. Nearly
all of these free articles are materials.
and their admission without duty is an
undoubted concession to the manufact-
urers: but in reducing duties on ma
reductions on the products of manufact-
ure?
II did on leather goods and on iron
and steel products, the duties on the raw
materials which enter into these prod
uctS having been abolished or reduced.
Reductions were made on many other
manufactured products. But whether or
not reductions were made all along the
line on manufactured products, there is
no question Of the value to the nation of
q policy under which the percentage of
free imports is mounting higher than if
ever rose under any previous tariff,
whether protective or for revenue only.
Under the WilSon-Gorman law the per-
centage of nOn-dutiable importations was
below 80 Under the Payne law it has
risen TO 1896
THE Record" is unfortunate in giving
this supposedly depreciatory explanation
of the expansion of the free list under
the Payne law:
In the last five months 81 per cent of
the imports of the United States were
free of duty. OF this increase the prin-
cipal factor is free raw sugar, solely fer
Inc Dtuellb OF the trust.
The only raw sugar dutiable under the
old law and free under the new one is
sugar imported from the Philippines,
which can now enter without duty I'D TO
an amount not exceeding 100000 tons a
year. Formerly all Philippine sugar
paid 40 per cent of the full duty. The
opening of our market TO one of the
staple products of the Philippines was
a long delayed act of justice. II was a
tardy acknowledgment of a moral OBJ
legation 10 give the Philippine archpel-
ago the same economic chance that we
have given TO Hawaii and Porto Rico.
Th admission of Philippine sugar was
moi Intended to benefit the Sugar Trust,
and if ii has had that effect, and that
only, the federal government is com
petent to deal In another way with the
monopolistic conditions which exist in
our sugar market But the Payne law
cannot be thus condemned for exhibiting
toward the Philippines a spirit of gen
crosby and true craftsmanship. The
Philippine section was one of its most
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-02-03
REARING GAME FOR MARKET
Massachusetts and New York Con-
traSted.
ON The Amateur Sportsman

From The Amateur Sportsman.
Many farmers are aware that thousands
of dollars are sent abroad every year ITO
purchase Game) which should go 10 me
American farmers. They know that small
farmers, as well big ones in foreis n
countries make lot Of money out of their
game.
Many New York hotekeepers wish N
know why Ii Is criminal for them TO sell
pheasants reared on the farms The Bos-
ton hotelkeepers sell pheasants reared ON
the Massachusetts farms, and those WIZ
rear them are glad to receive the good
money which pheasants yield There an
pears to be lack of uniformity in our
criminal laws. and we have advised the
people of New York TO visit Boston and
try the delicious food enjoyed by the neo-
pie OF that city without fear of police in
reference. The chairman of tha
Massachusetts Commission OF Fisheries ana
Game, in recent letter to The editor of
The Amateur Sportsman" says: You will
notice in the Acts of 1909 Chapter 500. Para
81, relative to pheasants. that the state
takes an advanced position upon the cues
ton which You are so properly and Consist
emily advocating. In addition to that va
are giving permits for the propagation of
York game officer state any good reason
why the people OF New York should NOT
have the same freedom which is now en-.
joyed by the people OF Massachusetts,?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-02-03

The gentleman who proposes in addition
TO start movement for export duties on
meats is apparently inspired more BY a
sense OF justice than by economic consid-
eratlons- Any such extreme measure would
tend 10 promote tariff contests, and what
ought at all times to have, is the greatest
possible freedom OF exchange in all the
necessaries of daily life.-NeW York Times
The enterprising gentleman aforesaid
is also inspired by an ambition to null
lily one of the evident purposes of the
Constitution Of the United States, which
forblds the imposition by Congress Of a
tax or duty on articles exported from any
state and forbids the states themselves
TO lay export or import duties except
with the consent of Congress. Congress
might tax exports from the District of
Columbia or from any of the territories.
but that sort of impost wouldn't have
much economic effect. The states which
hanIle exports would not be likely to
ask the consent Of Congress to tax, with
nc benefit TO themselves, a profitable
business, which might be driven else
where, nor would Congress be likely to
allow any state to impose taxes on for
cfgn commerce not imposed by all the
other states, since the Constitution for
bids any preference to be shown to the
ports of any one state over the ports of
another
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-02-03
ABATING THE HUNTING NUISANCE.

A promising suggestion has been made
in New Jersey for the abatement of the
hunting nuisance with which that state
has long been grievously afflicted. The
best agricultural and gardening regions,
and even closely settled residence dis
tricts in the suburbs, are annually III
tested with vagrant men and boys, by
overstrained courtesy called sportsmen,
who trample crops. break down fences.
mutilate trees and shrubs, scare, cattle
and incidentally shoot at and sometimes
MAIN or even kill such birds, rabbits,
squirrels or other game" as they may
espy. They probably burn powder worth
ten times as much and destroy property
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-02-03
TEXAS CLUB ANNUAL BALL

The Texas Club of New York City gave
Its annual Lone Star ball last night in the
large ballroom OF the Waldorf. This or
sahizatioh, woman's club. Is composed OF
former residents of Texas or those who are
visiting Ne" york. There were more than
three hundred members and their guests in
attendance the latter being mostly men
who form an auxiliary OF the club Tia
president Is Mrs. Clara Driscou Sewer.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-02-03
THE CABINET,
rFrorn The Tr,bun. Bpreau4

lFron The Tribune Bureau
Washington. Feb. Mfrs MacVeagh re-
ceived this afternoon, and had TO assist her
Mrs Robert W. Patterson and Mrs J. N.
Clark, of Chicago.
Mrs. Dickinson held her Wednesday re-
ception, and had Mrs. ". J. Calhoun, her
house guest, and others to assist her.
With Mrs Ballinger this afternoon dur
ing her reception were Mrs. Thomas II.
Anderson, Mrs. Hugh Wallace, Mrs. Ma
thaniel Francis and others.
Mrs. Meyer and Mrs. Wickershana also
received guests during the afternoon.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-02-03
A BREVET.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: / find the following dispatc
Dit 81 LIZ,

10 inc tdlLOT OF The 1rlDune.
Str: I find the following dispatch from
Pittsburg in to-day's Tribune:
The Rev. Wright Gibson, pastor of the
McKee's Rocks Presbyterian Church, yes
terday notified engaged couples among his
partshiopers that he did not purpose to
unite any couples unless the intended
bridegroom could prove that his income
was at least $1,000 a year
The minister declares that with the pres
ent price OF commodities this income is ne
vorces,' he said, and / do not purpose to
assist the divorce cause
From the moral, as we'll as the economic
point of view the only obvious commentary
which a person Of intelligence may make
upon this ebullition of opinion is that the
Rev. Wright Gibson should change his
name TO the Irreverend Wrong Gibson.
ROBERTUS LOVE.
New York Ian. 81 1910
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-02-03
SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT.
tBy Telegraph TO The Tribune

tBy Telegraph 10 The Tribune
Newport, Feb. Miss Marianne FrIlarn
entertained at luncheon this afternoon ir,
honor OF Miss MurieI Morris, daughter ot
Mrs Lewis Csss Ledyard American
Beauty roses were used for the table deco
rations
MIS- Harold Brown entertained with a
husicai at her home this evening
MT. and Mrs. t. Shaw safe and their son.
Kenneth. have gone To Los Angeles for tho
remainder OF the winter 1t is understood
mat MT and Mrs Safes visit to California
Is on account of their sons health.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-02-03
BROOKLYN LIBRARY TRUSTEES.

Ihe Mayor announced yesterday the fol-
lowing appointments of trustees for tho
brooklyn Public Library: Nathaniel n.
Levy and Daniel NJ Somers. to succeed
themselves; Paul Circuit. brother Of Edward
NJ Circuit. TO succeed William : Hurley.
and William II English. to succeed Ed
ward Kaufman. now Tax Commissions.