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New-York tribune., 1910-01-16

action on the 14O items cited by Mr..
Bacon? The explanation is simple: In
the 140 cases which the Georgia Senator
marshals the Democrats were voting In
the air. The higher rates had safe ma
jority on the Republican side, and 1t
made no practical difference what the
minority did. But in the excepted cases
the higher rates did not have majority
on the Republican side. and it was in the
power of the minority to vote the lower
duties into the bill. Having the chance
TO accomplish something definite, tho
Democratic Senators refused it. Enough
of them always joined with the Finance
Committee to save endangered higher
duties. When the higher duties were
not in danger the minority was found
voting against them in solid array.
Had the Democrats in the Senate
voted as unit in favor Of free coal,
free iron ore, free hides and free lum-
Der, they would have been entitled to
claim some. credit for helping to lower
duties. They opposed free. hides, and
the Republicans Of the House of Repre-
sentatives had to fight in conference to
restore hides to the free list. They op-
posed free lumber. free iron ore and
free coal. and the House of Representa-
tives had to compromise with the Sen
ate and restore duties on those items.
Concurrence with the House in putting
these raw materials on the free list
would have compelled reductions in
rates on the manufactured articles into
which they enter. But the Democrats
in the Senate, under Mr. Bailey's lead
ership, preferred keeping high duties on
the finished products to surrendering
duties on raw materials. They acted
on that theory when their action was
decisive. What they did when their
votes couldn't count is not likely to i'm
press the public. The people must judge
a party by the practical effect of what
its representatives do not by the plaus-
ibiiity Of what they say they meant to
do. Mr. Bacon may conscientiausly
think that he and his colleagues in the
Senate worked for lower tariff duties,
but the public will remain skeptical,
since it knows that they really blocked
the only reductions which their assist
ance would have made possible.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16
TREATING TUBERCULOSIS.

Current reports of the results Of treat
ment of tuberculous patients at sana-
toriums In various states show marked
differences of efficiency, which are per-
haps susceptible of satisfactory explana-
ton, but on the Who'll, give abundant en-
cOuragement for perseverance in the cam
paign against the white plague" Thus
In New York i'm 1907 there were treated
577 patients, of whom 2 were cured, 43
had the disease arrested and So showed
Improvement. In New Jersey in 1909 of
80 treated % were cured, 81 arrested
and 62 improved. In Massac chusetts in
arrested and 279 improved. In Rhode
Island in 1907 there were 313 treated. of
whom IL were cured, "a arrested and rs
improved. Maryland in 1909 showed a
record of $50 treated, 10 cured, SO ar
rested and 100 improved. On the other
hand, Virginia in the same year had 80
treated, of whom only / was cured and
were arrested. The total record of
the states named, with Michigan and
Wisconsin added, shows 3,343 treated,
276 cured, 452 arrested and 629 inn
proved or 1857 substantially benefited.
There were therefore So per cent of
the whole number Of patients cured, 13.5
per cent had the disease checked and
1873 per cent were improved; making
more than 40 per cent benefited to some
perceptible degree. Such percentage
of benefit applied to the whole nation
would mean an enormous saving of life
and an enormous increase Of industrial
efficiency 1t is true that it could not be
maintained in respect of all tuberculous
patients, for of course those who are
treated in these sanatoriums are selected
cases, in the incipient stages of the dis
ease. But SO numerous are the sufferers
from tuberculosis that to cure only So
per cent of only the incipient cases would
mean the saving of great multitude Of
lives. Nor should it escape consideration
that every case cured or arrested means
so much diminution of the danger of
communication of the disease TO others.
The differences in results shown by the
different states may be attributed to
various causes. 1t is probable that some
institutions admit more advanced and
therefore less hopeful cases than others,
and that there are varying standards by
which Improvement is judged. The eff
cheney of methods of treatment and the
skill with which they are administered
also vary, and it may be assumed that
some institutions are more favorably
situated than others 1t will be well, as
the work proceeds and expands, to ap-
proximate unification of standards in
order that results may be more ac-
curately and proftably compared, and it
may be assumed that the benefit of ex-
perience and the exercise of authority
will be brought to bear upon the selection
OF sites for additional sanatoriums. 1t is,
on the whole, hopeful, an encouraging
and an inspiring outlook which the world
now enjoys for the mitigation, if not the
actual extinction, of the most destructive
of diSeaS SeS
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
[ From The Tribune Bureau.


Washington, Jan. 15.-The Assistant Sec
retary of State and Mrs. Huntington Viii
son entertained at dinner tonight in honor
of the Secretary of the interior and Mrs
Ballinger. Their other guests were the Ar
gentine Minister and Senora de Portela, the
Danish Minister and Countess Moltke, SEN
ator and Mrs. Crane, Representative and
Mrs. James r. Mann. the German counsel
lor and Countess Won Wedel the French
military attache and Countess de Cham
brun, Mr.. Carpenter, secretary to the Pres
ident; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas IT. Gaff, Mr.
and Mrs \. Garrison McClintock and Miss
Christian. of Richmond.
Mrs. Norman Williams entertained a
large dinner company tonight in compIi-
ment to the former ambassador TO France
and Mrs. Henry White. Her other guests
included the Secretary of the Treasury and
Mrs. MacVeagh. Mrs. Potter Palmer and
Mrs. L. u. Letter.
Among the hosts entertaining dinner PEI
ties tonight were Mr.. and Mrs wlXlam
Corcoran Hill and Brigadier Gens~aI and
Mrs. Oswald II. Ernst.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert B. RsCsevelt enter
tanned at dinner to-nigbs,-ior their house
guests. the party iE-.udins Mrs. Adolf
Ladenburg and Mis< Mildred Poor. of New
York Mr.. an5<<lrs. Roosevelt will enter
tain a large luncheon party at the Chevy
Chase Club ,Sto-morrow. and on Monday
Mrs. Roose}elt and Miss Roosevelt will go
to New HEven for the Yale promenade.
Mrs Sydney a. Cloman. wife OF the mill
tary attfche OF the American Embassy IN
London/ who is here with her husband for
shoT VISIT entertained large luncheon
party at the New Willard to-day. her
sueSks including Mrs. Dickinson, wife Of
he/Secretary OF War; Mrs. Edison Bradley
arA Mrs. Herbert Shipman
Mrs Roscoe c. Bulmer entertained a din
Her party tonight and afterward took her
guests TO the theatre.
Brigadier General and Mrs Oswald II
Ernst opened their drawing room this
morning for a lecture by Professor Henry
Fairfield Osborn. of the Museum of Natural
History In New York.
Mrs A. c. Barney had among her vuests
at breakfast at Studio House this morn
ing Justice and Mrs. Holmes. Senator and
Mrs. Depew. Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas T Car
and Mrs. Franklin Ellis
MIS- John p. jackson was hostess ar q
large tea this afternoon in honor of har
daughter Nine. Ekengren. wife OF the
swedish nrst secretary. Assisting her were
Mrs Gibson Fahnestock, Mrs. Al,er,op
Cushman, Mrs. Randolph Clark and Miss
Woodruff.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Porter. jr. of New
AorA, are the guests OF Mr.. Porter's parents
wyo nave large apartment at the Drss-
deN this season.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONGRESS.-The Senate was not in
+. session. - House: The resolution
providing for a change of inauguration
oay was referred back to the Committee
on the Judiciary.
FOREIGN.-A special dispatch from
1sondon says the Unionists made sub
ftantial gains, but not sufficient to over
come the great Liberal majority in the
last House of Commons. - Lord
RoSebery, special dispatch from Lon
don says, is engaged in writing his
memoirs. - The Duke of Connaught
IS going 10 Africa, snot TO rival Mr..
Roosevelt as a big game hunter, but to
secure complete rest. - A special
cable dispatch from Paris says that city
has millions in gold for foreign invest
mentS. 49, 4 riot between Royal Cath
plic. and Republican students took place
at the Sorbonne. Paris. - Walter
Ionsdale, who was private secretary to
Dr. Cook, is the latest associate of the
explorer to doubt his having reached
the North Pole. @- 4 dispatch from
Constantinople says the Turkish govern
1nent is holding twelve thousand troops
IN readiness to be sent to Crete.
DOMESTIC.-It was said in Washing
ton that one hundred commissioned Off
GERS of the navy who failed to take the
prescribed physical test may be disci-
plined by the department. - The
dismissal OF three first class men from
The Naval Academy on charges of
drunkenness was recommended to the
Navy Department at Washington. -
Justice Andrews announced at the close
Of a hearing on the case of the Peoples
Mutual Life Insurance Association and
League, at Syracuse, that he would an
nOunce d decision next Tuesday. -
Barrett Eastman, well known Chicago
p. newspaper- man and writer. was found
dead i'll hotel al Biloxi. Miss, appar-
ertly q suicide - The four daily
1lewspaperg of Denver suspended publi-
cation following a strike OF their press
, men - The new battleship Michigan
sailed on a preliminary cruise from Phil
adelphia. = The worst blizzard since
1855 was reported at Nantucket and
Martha's Vineyard; Newport, so far as
. 1'ail transportation is concerned, was
cut off from the rest of the world. -
4 man said TO be Charles a. Potts, of
Philadelphia, died from starvation at
Springfield, Mass.
CITY-Stocks closed higher.
Commissioner Edwards had ten thou
sand snow shoyellers at work through
out the night - Associates of f. p
Scoles in the cotton pool said that he
was not heavy loser. - The Neigh
borhood House. maintained by John D.
Rockefeller for ten years, at an annual
expense of $4,000, in the HeIPs Kitchen
district. was closed. - DR. Alexander
Graham Bell gave his views on aviation.
== An agreement made between the
Orient and Chicago & Alton insures new
railroad outlets for both companies
- The mention of Clifford Pinchots
name. was greeted with much applause
at the luncheon debate of the> Repub-
lican Club on forest reserves.
Mayor Gaynor denied that the storm in
which he was caught on Long Island had
caused him any Inconvenience, and he
came to the City Hall yesterday TO
prove il.
THE WEATHER-Indicati for to-
cay: Far The temperature yesterday:
Highest, 32 degrees; lowest, %.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Two men who are well known in this
city as the proprietors of an old-fashioned
hotel set new fashion in progressive din
nerS the other night. They entertained a
party of guests at different hotel for each
course of the dinner. Beginning at their
own hotel, the hosts provided the oysters,
the party sitting down at a fully laid table
AS soon as the bivalves were disposed of
the party took two taxicabs and went to
the neXt hotel on the list for soup. A waiter
telephoned to the next stopping place, so
that there was no delay. So it went
through all the courses to coffee and
liqueurs.
My wife has cried only twice since
we've been married.
"On what occasions?'
when l told her l couldn't afford to get
her a set of furs for Christmas, and when
1 got 'em for her."-Clevelapd Leader.
The proud parents Of two little boys and
their four-year-old sister are anxious that
the children should have means of knowing
when they have grown up how smart they
were i'll their nursery days. and with this
i'll view the children have sung, spoke
pieces" and held conversations before a
talking machine. The records have been
placed where they will not be injured and
the parents think that some day the chill
dren will value them highly. With the rec
ords there are descriptions of the children
as they appeared to the father and a photo
graph of each.
1T DOESN'T PAY.
1t doesn't pay to be crouch,
1t doesn't pay to wear a frown:
Nobody ever made his pile
By knocking every one in town.
There are some better reasons why
q n aic
But here is one, financially
A gloomy visage doesn't pay.
There's money in a cheerful smile,
A fortune in cheerful word,
And money often reaches souls
That finer things will leave unstirred.
And so | put IT up to you.
Don't nope and whine along your way,
If 1T is money you desire.
gloomy visage doesn't pay.
'Twere better that you smile. because
You wish 10 cheer you fellow man
And speak the cheerful word, 70 helm
weaker brother. If you can
But If these reasons don't apneeI
To you. 1 write 1t down to-day.
There's money in happy face:
gloomy visage doesn't pay
Detroit Free Press
Among those who felicitated tho hapny
people on the twentieth anniversary Of
their wedding was the wife's sister. who
had not been "on calling terms, for r,.r,,
years The cause OF the estranremert
grew out of discussion as 10 whst r,,.s
the proper present for a twentieth ami
versary. Paper for the first: cotton ..c-
ond; leather, third; wood. ffth: Won, s.v-
enth; tin. tenth; silk, twelfth. and crvsta,
fifteenth. all had agreed to when the d,s.
cussion. which became personal, had taS.,
place. but, on the twentieth. some .tooa
for bronze and others for china. Tne s,s.
ters separated angry" neither wou,a ,sL.
step toward peace. and SO wears =, s~o as'
arrangement followed the foolish arr,,r,ent
Recently the pipe OF peace was su,nssd
but when the guests had all gone from the
home OF the celebrating couple. one nisht
last week. IT was found that sister Msry's
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16
MISSING WHEN NEEDED

Senator Bacon, Of Georgia, has repro
duced in aB article written for 1.-The
Saturday Evening POST his elaborate
defence of the Democratic membership
of the Senate against the charge of
voting to retain protective duties. when
the Payne tariff bill was under consid-
Grafton last summer, and of favoring
higher rather than lower duties when n
choice between them was offered. We
called attention 10 some of the inner
fections Of the argument as il appeared
last August in the Congressional Rec
ord, and we cannot that the Senator
has cured them in his restatement. Mr..
Bacon says at the outset:
During the recent extra session Of
Congress, and since its adjournment as
well, it has been so often asserted and so
persiStently repeated that Democratic
Senators, pending the consideration of
the tariff bill. favored protective duties
that this misrepresentation Of their atti-
tude has come in a large measure to be
regarded as in reality the truth And
the fact is not TO be ignored that this
MISREPRESENTATION, gross and unfounded
as this article will show it to be has
come 70 be credited as the truth not only
py poiitical foes but also BY many ill-in-
formed political friends.
In order to prove the baseIessness of
ihe charge, the Senator very properly
analyzes the votes cast by Democratic
Senators on 40 rollcalls in the course
of the tariff debate. On those calls. he
says, the Democratic Senators, with q
few exceptions, favored a lower rate
than that proposed by the Finance Com
mittee and incorporated in the bill. Yet
TO produce the appearance OF uniformity
in favor Of lower and against higher
duties. some OF the most important roll
calls Of the session had to be omitted.
Mr. Bacon comedies that his ANALYSIS
does not cover the votes on rates for
rough lumber, hides and iron ore. 1t
also does not cover the votes on rates
for coal and pineapples. On all those
rollcalis large number of Democrats
on some OF them majority of the Dem
ocratic membership Il preferred higher
duties TO lower.
Why did the public judge the Demo
cratic party In the Senate by its action
on those few items, instead OF By Its
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16
People and Social I1cident.
At THE WHITE HOUSE.
fFrom Tho Tribuns Bureau.I

Washington, Jan. 1.-THE President re-
ceived number OF Ohio visitors to-day,
including ex-senator Foraker, who said
he called to pay his respects. this being
his first visit to the White House In two
years Senator Dick. Representative Tay-
ior, r. g. Iandis and I. r. Longworth
urged the President to reappoint William
c. Kennedy Surveyor Of the Port Of CO.
lumbus.
Representative Tawney had long talk
with the President. He said he saw no
reason why the Judges OF the Customs
Court of Appeals should receive higher
salaries than the judge, OF the Circuit
Courts.
The Secretary OF War introduced TO the
President the executive COMMITTEES OF the
American Bar Association, consisting OF
r. Z. Wadhams. OF Albany; Charles T.
Libbey, of Maine: r. w. lehman. of ST.
Louis; r. II. Breckenridge and Lynn
Helm, of Los Angeles; Albert Ritchis and
John Hinkley, OF Baltimore. and Charles
Henry Butler. OF Washington.
Otto T. Barnard was one OF a number of
New York and New Jersey friends OF Sena-
tor Kean who were introduced to the
President. They attended dinner gzIaA2
by the Senator tonight.
Senator Tillman discussed with President
Taft the possibility Of making Charleston.
S. c.. a stopping point for all War De-
partment steamers bound for Panama. IL
this can be done. Mr.. Tillnan said. mail
destined for Charleston and the vicinity
will reach it's destination two days earlier
than under present arrangements
The Presidents callers included Senators
Burrows and Page. Representatives Aus
tin, Gill, Madden. Cowies. Mckinley. Tay-
lor and Foster; ex-Representative Richard
son. OF Tennessee: Cecil Lyon, Republican
national committeeman from Texas. and
Delegate Kaianianaole.
The President and Captain Butt went
riding this afternoon.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16
which those powers, in common with the
others, stand fully committed.
A LONG WAY BACK.

Reading an official communication
sent to the Mayor by the new Commls
sioner Of Water Supply, Gas and Elec-
tricity, one gets an idea of how COM
pletely times have changed. Wasat It
only q couple Of years ago ItSat the
public was assured that in S'Colonel
Michael C. Padden the sYty possessed
the most enterprising, competent and
admira Bile Water Register who had ever
held that office since Eroton water be-
gan to run? Were we not regaled with
accounts of "Colonel' Padden's martial
excursions along the river fronts, strik-
ing terror to unlicensed tappers of the
city's plugs and pipes? Wasn't 1t re-
lated that the colonel spent most Of
his days and nights running down dead
heads" collecting arrears and installing
meters both as reminder of past de-
linquences of the metered and as an
encouragement to their persistence IN
good faith?
Now the "colonel's' multifarious ac-
tivities are rIdely criticised as involving
absence from his official headquarters
and inattention to the Weightier affairs
of its administration, and his warfare
on the non-userS of meters as inspired
largely by zeal to create business for
friends of his in the plumbing business.
Yet, who ever had dreamed of confining
noted Bowery statesman, aide-de-
camp to no less a parsonage than Lit
tie Tim Sullivan. to the cramped floor
room of Water Registers Office? Also,
where had Colonel Mike" ever read in
the military and social bylaws of Tam
many Hall that all plumbers should be
dealt with on a basis of professional
equality or that trained organization
plumbing should have no right of way
over the crude work of outsiders? We
are sorry for mike" He was living up
to the specifications of bis contract with
the city as he understood it. But the
iconoclasts are abroad, and they are
playing havoc with the specifications Of
the recent past. Mayor Mcclellan has
been out of office only fifteen days. But
il seems already long and dreary
journey back to the bucolic innocence
of his administration. when Mike" was
still 'the best Water Register the city
ever had"
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16

bronze presents were conspicuous among
all the gifts OF china
TIE fellow who complains that there IS
noEning going on evidently forgets about
his expenss&-Philadeiphia Record.
Cleveland has recently adopted an ordf-
nance that has the virtue OF novelty IL
there Is nothing else to commend it. 1t
seeks to eradicate a bad habit among
theatregoers all sover the country-that OF
entering late ana disturbing the early ar
rivals. The ordinance provides that per-
sons arriving late at any public entertain
raent shall not To seated while an act OF
scene Is In progress. How we'll the new
faw will work has not yet been demon
strated.
'Do you mean to tell me their church ID
crowded.
"Yes. Why not? They pay ten thousand
q year to their advertising man.'-Life-
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16
SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT
IBy Telegraph to The Tribune

IBy Telegraph to The Trinunel
Newport Jan. l5-Through the eoa'ss
of Mrs. Lorillard Spencer, ir,, me so.
people OF the winter colony had a siosc''s
ton dance at the house Of Mrs. spencer ~. y.
Rhode Island avenue, this evening. -
cotiuon. which was the feature. was isa
WILLIAM H. Coles. dane us with Mrs ss1, >
Ger. Tas fayors were given ny william :
Hunter. Mrs. Reginald Norman, Mss -
Hunter and II. II. Arrowsnnl.s- -
Colonel Gsersss- - 2 caring. jr, re'a'.a "a
fre-.Sew York this afternoon. As.
Mrs William r. Rusfum have gone -
adelphia.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16
Church statistics showing increase

Church statistics showing increase or
decrease in membership and attendance
and what not else are all very we'll in
way. but they miss the gist of the
matter, which is the personal factor. If
they could tell the character of the min
ister's preaching and other work they
would throw more light upon the SUBJ
ject which they aim to illumine. The
Christian Church as a church has never
lacked prosperity and success. AS po-
lical machine, club or vaudeville show
its fortunes are more dubious.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16
"THE ooNooLIsRs' FOR CHURCH.

reunion OF the present and former
members OF the old East Size parish in
Hase 1Ath stSeet--the Church OF the I'm
sa4ouiaee Coneeption--is planned for Mon
day evening. January 81. at Grand Central
rAiaee' Among the young men and women
nenoers OF the United Societies attached
~ aie cnurch arN many amateur actors.
aaey VIII present the comic opera Tho
Gondoliers." after Which the reception will
take place. The auction sale Of boxes will
90 held on January II In the school hall.
IN East 18th street.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16

The experiment [Boston's new scheme OF
municipal campaigningl seems to have been
a complete failure. 1t was aimed at the
Fitzgeralds Of politics and the Fitzseralds,
on the first attempt. have mounted it and
ridden II according to their will. Partyless
nominations do not seem able to save the
people from themselves. and the public
spirited citizens of Boston who have long
struggled to better the governmental con-
ditions of their city have good reason to
feel diScouraged.-Ric Times-DiS-
patch.
We see no reason for Encouragement
No method of election will save-or
ought to save-the candidate who can't
get either a majority or plurality of
the votes
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16

she touched at Plymouth on Thursday
her captain reported one Of the worst ex-
periences of his lifetime. Fortunately,
such trying conditions seldom continue
more than a day or two at time, and
one might cross the ocean a duIen times
III winter without witnessi. their par
allel
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16
THE CABINET.

IFrom The Tribune Bureau-l
Washington. Jan. 1.-THE Secretary OF
the Navy and Mrs. Meyer have issued In
vitations for receptions on Thursdays. Jan
uary 20 and February 3, at $50 o'clock
Mrs. Meyer will go to Boston to attend the
wedding of a cousin. and will hold her reg
ular Wednesday reception next week.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16
Aflu,1lork Gribu,re.
SUNDAY, JANUARY ,1e, 1910.

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