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TAFT AND CONGRESS.

Such feeble onts.' was the reply, that
now there are two views held by men whose
loyalty To the administration cannot he
questioned. One is that it would be wise
to abandon the Presidents legislative pro-
eraunrne. pass the few remaining appropria-
tion bills and adjourn. and in the coming
campaign TO appeal 20 the voters to sup
port regular nominees for Congress and 20
indorse President Taft and his efforts 10
clinch the Roosevelt policies. The other
view IS that II would be wiser to accept
such an interstate commerce bill as can be
passed by the Senate the President 20 join
sritll the regular leaders 20 bring sufficient
Number % insurgents into line to pass a
reasonable measure. although one shorn of
the merger and the traffic agreement pro-
Visions.
The President. however. positively re-
fuses 10 accept the pessimistic view of the
legislative situation, and he purposes TO
rally the Republican forces with the hope
Of obtaining the enactment not oply OF the
railroad bill, but of the other measures on
his legislative programme. Mr.. Taft be-
New-York tribune., 1910-05-08
LONDON SHOPS.

,--;.o5 C+atPS
Presbyterian laymen in the United oIacs
died suddenly from heart disease IN f"nl
deIphia Clarence Charles Mlfezesiieiiii'
head of the banking and brokerage house
Charles Minzesheimer Co, dled III -.
apartments at the st. Regis Hotel
Horace B. Sllinlan, wealthy prlilali'h
and benefactor of colleges, died at MS iioiilo
In Cohoes at the age of eiShty-tour Seat'
DR.. George Fisk Comfort, L. Fl. d. LII i
an art critic and educator, dlen d. Wv
home of his son, Ralph H. ComIof'' i"
Montclair. N. J. He was seventy-s'N Se0iS
old. A body found in the East River "o'
identified as that OF Henry pennington
ToIer former golf player, wealthy orohei'
Christian Science patron and head claim
ant to $4,000, 100000 in land and houses N
Harlem. who In February, 1910, disappeared
from the Manhattan State Asylum Tor lI'
Insane, on Blackwelrs Island. He IS ohc
OF several followers of the cult who COM
nitted suicide in the last year.
What progress has Mr.. Roosevelt mace
in his Journey toward home?" asked Busy
Man.
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GREAT COST OF INSANE.

Controller Williams gave out a state
ment at Albany concerning the states
finances for the last ten years. and the
care of the insane proved to betthe biggest
single expenditure. The total receipts of
the state for the ten years following Oc
tober l. 1899, amounted to sS42, ,025 S05. while
the disbursements We're $326. .6S9, 532 For the
by a vote of &c to . the Senate passed
the bill Incorporating the Economic and
General Foundation for scientific, benevo-
lent and al:ruisric purposes and comforting
on the trustees of that body almost limit
less powers of acquiring, holding and dis
posing of property and funds. Not a hint
was given of the identity OF the mysterious
wealthy philanthropist who desires. under
the provisions of this bill, to educate and
generally uplift the world by giving sone
$o.500,OO0.
After bitter fight. in which it was
denounced as the entering wedge for a
system of pensions for the entire civil list
of state employees. the Thorn bill, compel
ling the state to pension teachers, in its
normal schools and other institutions, was
passed in the Senate by a vote of "a to 13
According to agreement, the Senate
Judiciary Committee voted TO report for
the consideration of the Senate the Hin
man-Green direct primary bill. favored by
chimes primary bill and the so-called di-
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The report of the Department Of Com
merce and Labor on labor conditions at
the Bethlehem Steel Works, South Bethle-
hem, Penn says that 1892 men out of 9.1S4
persons employed worked twelve hours a
day for seven days week and tPat large
percentage of the laborers earn only = :.
cents an hour.
The Standard Cordage Company, 81
500. 900 corporation. commonly known as
the Cordage Trust, and the successor, three
times removed, of the old National Cordage
Company, the failure of which, just seven
teen years ago, brought about the panic of
1888, was placed in the hands of a receiver
after an involuntary petition in bankruptcy
had been filed against it in the United
States District Court by three creditors.
with claims aggregating $4,000 They say
the liabilities of the concern are S2,400.000.
and that its assets are not worth more than
81 600 Geo
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THE HEARST -GAYNOR FEUD.

What else happened that ought to re-
member" asked Busy Man
A crop of libel suits has sprung from
the speech of Mayor Gaynor last Thursday
evening at the dinner of The Associated
Press and the American Newspaper Pub
ilshers Association at the Waldorf. Ac
tions for 100000 each against nineteen
newspapers have already heen fled by
Clarence j. Shearn, acting for William
randolph Hearst Moreover. Hearst has
brought suit against The Associated Press
ior S'"o'oo for s-nding the Mayors speech
10 It's members, Including Mr.. Hearst's
new hork American which published II
III fuh. with the statement that II was fur
nished by The Associated Press.
Papers were served on the Mayor. City
Chamberlain Hyde and Mr.. cohalan in a
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Obs is Intended Especially
for the Bzssy Man

consolidated with a fund OF 100000 ere
, >ated several years go by Andrew Carnegie
The United Surety Company Of bhiti-
more has been ordered by the New YORK
State Insurance Department to stop doing
business in this state William H Hotch-
kiss. State Superintendent of Insurance,
who made an investigation Of the company
in February, refused to renew the license
Of this company because, for one thlns, ne
found the capital of the company. s59o,eoo,
had been impaired by the controlling di-
rectors by about ssh.090.
The Consolidated stock Exchange Of
this city VAS found to be in connection with
an ella borate system of telegraph wires over
which stock quotations alleged to have oeen
stolen from the New York stock Exchange
haze been supplied to bucket shops all over
the country This discovery was made by
special agents Of the Department of Justice
in simultaneous raids on three alleged
bucket shop wire offices, two in Broad
street. this city. and the other in Jersey
City.
New-York tribune., 1910-05-08
NATIONAL GUARD NEWS.

Veterans OF the Tth Regiment will hold
their annual memorial service at St Thom-
ass Church. Fifth avenue and SD street,
next Sunday afternoon. at O'Clock The
Rev. Claudius NJ. Roome. chaplain OF the
association. will preach the sermon
team of five men from Company will
shoot match with the Essex Troop of
New Jersey on Friday night. May 20. at
the armory of the New Jerseymen at Rose
dale. The regiment will parade this after
noon for divine service In the Church of
the Incarnation. at Madison avenue and
3oth street. The sermon will be delivered by
CHAPLAIN William T. McCord. and will be-
gin at o'clock. A tactical walk for OFF,
GERS will begin on Thursday night, juno g,
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tions in the manner of a supreme court OF
arbitral justice. Colonel Roosevelt sug-
gested that representatives of the various
governments might to advantage study
what has been done in the United States
by the Supreme Court in it's administration
regarding interstate disputes In the
third place. he said. something should be
done as soon as possible to check the
growth Of armaments. especially naval
armaments by international agreements
Finally. II would be master stroke If those
great powers honestly bent on peace would
form a League of Peace, not only TO keep
the peace themselves but TO prevent by
force if necessary its being broken BY
others In the mean time. and while work
ing slowly toward the contamination of the
International peace ideal. Mr.. Roosevelt
argued that a nation should be ready 10
uphold It's rights In war II necessary, rs
we must ever bear in mind that the great
end in view is righteousness.
New-York tribune., 1910-05-08
HEARST FREE; CITY MULCTED.

"A decision by Justice Greenbaum In the
Supreme Court that the city alone Is re-
sponsibIe for the killing of Dennis Shea'
whose head was blown off in a fireworks
explosion outside Madison Square Garden
or the evening Of November 4, 1902, frees
William Randolph Hearst from the burden
OF N.a92so which the city already has paid
In damage suits. The pyrotechntcs were in
celebration OF the victory Of Hearst. who
was elected Representative from the utn
Congress District. In premature explo-
sion eighteen men lost their lives and
scores of others were injured dangerous
". The Shea suit was included in the
eighty-fve that were begun against the
city In almost every instance the decision
was In favor OF the claimant for damages,
and in the entire list of actions the city
has had to pay judgments of S,71S,26o The
city always has contended that as Hearst,
who then was president of the National
Democratic Club, had ordered the celebra-
ton he should share the damages. Hearsts
answer was that his responsibility ceased
when the city officials granted the permit
and undertook the protection OF the spec
tators He had an aldernlanic permit for
the display on the evening of Election Day.
and, thus, he argued through his lawyers,
the city really fostered what generally is
considered nuisance.
More than 10000 automobiles have been
registered in this state, according TO Mr..
Koenig, the Secretary of State, the 10000
number being assigned to Peter T. Barlow,
president of the Board of City Magistrates
of New York. The number of licensed
chauneurs recorded to date is mere than
$1,000 The majority of the registrations
come from New York and Brooklyn, with
Buffalo Rochester, Syracuse, Utica, AL
bany. Niagara Falls, Troy, Poughkeepsie,
Elnira and Binghamton following in that
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Man
MaEESaN
kGf-aTsW&IS

lieves that an even better bill will come
out OF conference than Is sent there.
Nevertheless, progress is being made in
other ways For instance, the Secretary
of State and the British Ambassador ex
changed ratifications putting into effect the
treaty between the United States and Great
Britain regarding the waterways of the Ca
madam boundary. The treaty was approved
by the Senate on March or last year but
a proviso regarding the use of the waters
at the rapids of the Sault Ste. Marie made
necessary further negotiations of a delicate
diplomatic nature by Secretary Knox, which
have been carried to a successful issue.
I'm addition TO establishing the rights Of
the citizens OF either country to the use II
the boundary waters, the treaty provides
for the establishment of a joint commission,
consisting of six members, three from the
United States and three from the Dominion,
which is clothed with authority to investi-
gate and report on any question arising
between the two countries along their COM
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aAe eHn0y pRFn E c0.

federal income tax amendment came TO its
end i'm the Assembly. A motion to recon
slider the vote by which it failed to pass
recently lacked one vote of the necessary
76 to PASS. Sixty-seven members voted
against It, When the measure came up III
th,, Assembly before this year 1t received
II votes
The lower house of the Massachusetts
Legislature also went on record against
the income tax when motion to sunsu-
tute a favoring resolution for an adverse
report Of the Committee on Federal Rela-
tons was beaten by vote of l26 to lO2-
.'Under an emergency message the New
York City debt limit legislation. designed
TO permit the exclusion from the deot
limit of self-supportirg bonds so that funds
will be available for new subWays was
passed in both houses. This bill is the
compromise between the city administra-
tfon's measure and the Citizens Union bill,
which was worked out by the Senate Cities
Committee.
by a vote of 81 to Is the Senate passed
the so-caIled oral betting bill, most I'M
portant of the Agnew bills amending the
artt-racetrack gambling law of 1908, in &C
cordauce with the recommends tions made
in Governor Hughes's annual message.
This is the first of the racing bills to get
through the Senate. In a slightly different
form, as the Perkins bill, 1t has already
passed the Assembly. 1t is expected that
the Rules Committee in the lower cham
Der will accept the change and report the
bill out for early passage.
! "Assemblyman Whitney's white slave
bill was passed without debate. 1t makes
importation of women and girls into this
state for immoral purposes a felony, pun
ishahle by fine of not more than 5000
and imprisonment for twenty years.
New-York tribune., 1910-05-08
WAGES INCREASED.

1t VS. announced thet the arhitrat0rs IN
the mage schedule dispute involving the
Kew YORK Central s Hudson River Rail
read and tie Boston & Albany Railroad in
which the Delaware. Lackawanna d West
eTn Railroad was also party, had pre-
sen1eG their decision i was compromise.
The company won important points. as did
the men, but probably the company was
winner in tne main The Baltimore & Ohio
schedule is granted II the men IN the case
Of short hauls. Where the hauls are long
and the equipment is of the hest. so tha:
the elenen. OF danger IS eliminated. the
1ifTerentisl rate. for which the company
stood ca;. IS approved The fremen three
thousand in number. wiIl receive an ad-
vance in wages averaging per cent.
Increased wages 10 railway employees
nilI add s1oa gcaCo0 To railway payToIls of
Ihe country before :5e year is out. This
estimate was made ny President Brown of
the Nev York Central. 1t includes. OF
course. many advances the details OF which
have Eot yet been settled.
Following the example of the Western
trunk lines, which have fled tariffs with
5he Interstate Commerce Commission for
~ increase In freight rates averaging IS
per cent, the railroads in the territory be-
tween ire Mississippi River and the At
lsnfic sesboard. comprising the water-and
gail a. well standard and diferentisl
laii lines, are at work OF d rate readiust-
sllent which VIII bring ta al lines some in
crease al revenue In both freight and pas
senger traffic.
-Albert Il. WaIher q lawyer, who has
JUST completed an invest ga tion OF the coal
business OF The Reading Railroad. sent 10
Attorney General WlckeCsnaTn 4 report OF
his inquiry. in which he charges that the
Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company
has made legal determinations ID the
shape OF discounts 10 the Philadelphia and
Reading Coal and Iron Company during
the last eleven years amounting 10 Sc
100000 This discrimination. Mr Walker
says. has been at the expense of inde-
pendent miners and owners os coal.
The National Association of Employing
LithogTaphers. which several years ago
Fought the labor unions and defeated them
and which eve2 since Ias frcen able to
maintain an open snop' decided al its an
ISual convention in this city 10 syrans al
eigAi-hour day 10 lis enylos es
New-York tribune., 1910-05-08
STATES WIN AGAINST TRUSTS.

The hands OF the states in their fight
against combinations were upheld by the
Supreme Court Of the United States, with
telling effect. The Association IF Retail
Lumber Dealers in Mississippi and Louisi-
ana was disbanded by affirmance Of the
decree Of the Supreme Court of Mississippi
and the Standard Oil Company of Kentucky
MAS ousted from Tennessee by the ap-
IrovsI OF the decree OF the Supreme Court
Of Tenneseeez Both. the state courts had
held. had violated the antitrust acts Of the
respective states.
In an opinion written by Judge Noyes
the United States Circuit Court Of Appeals
affirmed the decision Of the United States
District Court at Buffalo. which fined the
Standard Oi! Company S2n00a with costs,
For violations Of the Elkins act. in accept
ing concessions lowering the published
rates on shipments Of oil between August
Is. 1854. and May IL. 1905.
BY filing a new tariff with the Interstate
Commerce Commission the New York. New
IIayen & Hartford Railroad gave notice Of
2 fiat increase Of five cents on each fare,
irrespective OF the total amount for pas
senEer traffic. for about 70 per cent of the
lcints between New York and Boston. No
change is To be made in the through fare
between these two cities nor between New
.aprtant increases are 10 so into effect on
.uue next Between New York and New
Haven and from Now York west the com
mutation rates on the road are to be in
o'ss-ei from. u 10 81 per cent From New
York - all stations in Maine by way Of
1lew London tf.ere is 10 be 2 fiat increase
G. Eve cents ia each fare. but to points in
Maine ty way Of Boston there IS TO be no
increase.
The communication tariff filed with the
commission also provides that no commu-
tatiou fares on q scale basis viii he in ef-
feet between these points'-the points being
New York on the west and all points he
tween New York and New Haven on the
east
Not only viii the mayors Of New Ro
caelle and Mount Vernon and the presi-
6er.ts of The villages along the New Haven
Railroad from Mount Vernon TO the Con
recticut line engage counsel to make a
uitter legal battle against the increase of
commutaticn rates OF the New Haven S!s-
tom. but the commuters have drawn up
long petitions. as well as 4 round robin
containing their protests. which will be
submitted 70 the corporation.
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rect primary measure of the Democratic
League. Thus the Governors primary
form proposition in both houses has been
started on its way to that fair. square
vote which he believes is the only thing
which viii! satisfy the people of the state
this ISSUE
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CoDsfdrafRedderIeIJ
Wbof He Missed an
Lasf Weeks
Papers.
) ~zask
Papers

hat CO you consider the weeks most
sensational piece &C news asked BUSY
Man. as hs met Constant Reader last even
ins
TIE death O. England 8 monarch KING
Edward VII" was the reply. who s-ie-
caI-77boC TO pneumonia On Friday night ia
Buckingham Palcoe. At The aSc ot sixty
eight years. five months and tN-enry-seNen
s2vs. after reign Of nire years. His eldest
surviving son. tle Prince Of Wales. succeeds
10 the throne. as George Y This event
leaves the erl2irA in q grave political sllua-
ton II Is believed that the struggle oe-
tween the lords and the Commons VII oe
temporarilz abandoned
a second sensation was provided ny al
earthquake not very far from the Panama
Canal which destroyed the city Of Carriage
in costa Rica. burying several hundred per
sons beneath the ruins -Four hundred bodies
have already been found and more are eX-
y,ec;ed. The beautiful Peace Palace. erect
"a through the generosity of Andrew Car
negie. WIS converted into 4 pile of debris.
Other public buildings met the same fate
Mary students Of the College of the Sale
sian Fathers were killed Only three Of
them ESCAPED 1IninjUreG
a third development that interested
many rersof deeply was the victory Of the
District Attorney ana the grand jury, OF
which John D Rockefeller. jr-- is foreman.
il, procuring the confession of one OF three
prisoners charged with selling four young
women. or white slaves into the custody
of ,'ersCns whom they believed 10 be pro-
prietors # iisorderlv resorts, hut who were
really two college women in the secret en-
l7loy of the District Attorneys office The
man who confessed WAS Harry Levinson,
y no with Belle Moore and Alexander An
cerson. was indicted upon evidence fur
nish,d by the two svor1en college graduates.
Ev pleading guilty Jevinson faces term in
prison Of from one To three years. or f1ne
Of from 81 aOo to S5.HnF or both He said he
was ready to tell al that ne knew about
The traffic in girls for immoral purposes
The District Attorneys Office was gratitied
BY the plea, and Mr. Whitman hopes that
Levinscn will supply further clews to be
followed up by his agents
What has been happening in the world
Of commerce. asked Busy Man
New-York tribune., 1910-05-08

Among the names submitted 20 Governor
Hughes for appointment as adjutant gen
eral vice Henry. appointed Surveyor Of the
Port. is that of Captain Louis ". Stotes-
bury of Company F. eth Regiment He Il
very highly indorsed for the place by
nUnber of officers from different regiments.
who desire an officer who has had expert
ence IN the line. Captain Stotesbury joined
the 7th as a private IN April. 1892. and is
military aid on the Governors staff
New-York tribune., 1910-05-08
ALBANY LEGISLATION.

What has the Legislature at Albany ac-
complished?" asker Busy Man
After hanging in the balance for several
weeks the Murray resolution TO ratify the
New-York tribune., 1910-05-08
TWO NEW BATTLESHIPS.

The desire of the administration for two
new battleships will be granted, the Senate
Committee on Naval Affairs practically de-
Gliding to accept the provision of the House
bill on this subject.
After twelve years the battleship Maine
is TO he removed from Havana Harbor
and those who went down with the vesse:
will he inferred In the National Cemetery
at Arlington a bill providing for such re-
moval and burial. which has passed the
House, was passed by the Senate on
Wednesday.
In reward for his services in acting as
a subject for yellow fever tests, the Senate
passed bill granting an annuity Of $500
to John r Kissinger of Indiana lie IS
one Of the soldiers who were used in dem
onstration of the theory that mosquitoes
transmit fever. Senator ShiveIy said that
k1ssnger had become a hopeless paralytic.
THE Senate paid Governor Hughes the
unusual compliment Of confirming his nom.
ination 10 the Supreme bench on the same
day that his nomination was favoraby re-
ported from the Committee on the Judici-
ary AT the last threats of opposition
dwindled away, and in a brief executive
session of the Senate the nomination was
confirmed 1t is significant that under the
rules Of the Senate the nomination could
have been held up for at least one day by
single protest. but the protest was not
made. Ordinarily the newly appointed JUS
tice would at once assume the duties of his
office. In Governor Hughes's case. how
ever, the commission will be dated October
Until then. Meanwhile he will continue his
New-York tribune., 1910-05-08
BIG PENSION FUND

Following the establishment recently Of
liability insurance for fts employees came
the announcement that the United s.a,es
Steel Corporation had established 2 r.en
sion fund Of 100000. This fund Will be
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a NOA, 5ai7ss4 + 5:s'f.s5 s.:.-
III "EDEN PALACE, %

and will end on Sunday. June IS The proc
lem will be a brigade command moving 10
an enemys country This innovation -
considered very practical method OF in
struction and has become popular in the
West.
New-York tribune., 1910-05-08

mon frontier and to hear and determine any
question whatever between the two coun-
tries bN the consent Of both.
New-York tribune., 1910-05-08
.ILDUNGEN
LONDON HOTELS.

taxpayers suit brought by Julia smith,
supposedly IN the Hearst interests, 10 COM
eel the restitution of the greater part OF
the money on the ground that the claim
was excessive and exorbitant and that It's
payrnent was illegal.
New-York tribune., 1910-05-08

Second Lieutenant Alfred c. &. NcNsvln.
Of the 18th Regiment. has been unaDiulous-
w elected first lieutenant Of Company z.
He has been q member OF the regiment
since January, 1893.
New-York tribune., 1910-05-08
THE DEATH ROLL.

ANY persons of Importance die?" asked
Busy Man.
King Edwards death. we have already
sp ken of, replied Constant Reader Rear
Admiral Bowman II. McCaua L. S. N,
one of the most picturesque characters the
American navy has ever known, and one
of its famous officers. died of apoplexy at
,his horne, In Santa Barbara, Cal In the
Spanish war McCalla as the commander
of the old cruiser Marblehead. directed the
landing and fighting of the marines at
Guantanamo
'Jehn Quincy Adams Ward. dean of
American sculptors, died at his home. No.
296 Manhattan avenue in hts eighticJh
"ear Nord Alexis, ex-PTesident of Hayti,
died in Kingston, Jamaica. where he had
heen refugee since the rev, ution of 1905.
Rear admiral Philip f1ichborn retired). who
was chief constructor OF the navy. died in
eVashington He was seventy-one years
old Edward Theodore Bartlett. of New
York, Associate Judge of the Court of Ap-
paals. died from heart disease at an Albany
hospital John II. Converse. president 81
the Baldwin Locomotive Works, a philan-
thropist and one OF the most prominent