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New-York tribune., 1910-02-04
DEAD MATTER.

The House Of Representatives has re-
Gently been wrestling with the problem
of dispoSing of the useless and worthless
documents which accumulate in its doc
ument room. y special committee drew
up list of condemned publications and
presented 10 the House the other day q
plan for getting rid Of them which was
cheerfully adopted. Not little amuse-
ment was created by the discovery that
among the useless and worthless"
sleepers in storage was the illumina ting
report prepared by the Hon. Champ
Clark on behalf of the minority of the
Ways and Means Committee which was
intended 10 demonstrate that the revision
effected by the Payne tariff law was
''upWard,' not downward, revision.
Mr.. Olmsted, Of Pennsylvania, made the
astonishing statement that Of the ten
thousand copies of the Clark report Or
dered printed not single one was ever
circulated, no Democratic Representa-
tive appearing TO want to frank copies
of it to his confiding constituents. .Ir.
OImsted said, moreover, that the chair
man of the Democratic Congressional
Committee, as Il member of the select
committee to frame a list Of documents
incapable of circulation, had Joined in
recommending the consignment of Mr..
Clarks ten thousand analyses of the
Payne bill to the junk bin
Can it be that the leadership of the
Missouri humorist is so little appreciated
by an ungrateful following: AR Clark
has been unavoidably kept away from
Washington the greater part of the pres
ent session. He is said to be filling
ChautauQua lecture enga agements. Yet it
- seems strange that he has left behind
him no lieutenant vigilant enough to see
that Democratic Congressional cam
paign documents as weighty as his tariff
lucubratiOns are not consigned in bulk
to Il government store room and then
condemned to be auctioned off as mere
waste paper. Is there a conspiracy
against the distinguished absentee now
'torming the Chautauqua circuit? Is
there motive behind this branding of
his tariff deliverances as dead horse lit
erature? Speaking the other day of Mr..
Clark's supposed availability as d Demo
cratic Presidential candidate, that genial
anti-Bryan Bryanfte, Major James {.
Hemphill, late of The Charleston News
and Courier" remarked:
Then in the House. excusing his va
garousness. Champ Clark, the Demo-
cratic leader, could easily be trimmed
down to the right size-in his present
shape he would be impossible,
1t is part of the trimming down"
process to advertise to the world the sad
fact that Mr.. Clark's political pubIica-
tons lack self-circulatiIg energy, and
that even the opportunity of free mail
transmission under the franks of fellow
statesmen will not lure them from the
darkening crypt?
New-York tribune., 1910-02-04
THE DEITY AND DISASTERS.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Such a letter as that of w. 3. Tenn
pleton. in a recent issue, practically an
swers itself; but 1t is impossible to let
it pass without a word of plying COM
ment especially as the same monstrous
conception of q deity and gross ignorance
of natural law appear in an utterance
ascribed to Cardinal Gibbons and pub
ished in this mornings Tribune
Even 'cursory examination OF human
history ought by this time to have made
it clear TO all but the duleSt minds tnat
great physical disasters follow the strict
law OF cause and effect and are in no
measure prOportioned TO the relative
wickedness of different cities and coun-
tries and still less to their views and
practices in matters of religion. There was
no greater moral reason for the San Fran
cisco earthquake or the Paris flood than
there would be for the destruction OF Lon
don, New York or Berlin; and these ca
lamities would have occurred just as GER
tainly if every inhabitant of the afflicted
cities had been as blindly devout the
thousands of sufferers from the late erup-
tions of Vesuvious,
The only sin of the French which can
be held in any way accountable for the
awful afliction OF the last few weeks
was that of insufficient precautions against
a disaster which previous experience had
shown to be always imminent; and we
who in a carnival of national eXtrava-
gance have suffered our own forests to be
wasted and destroyed have the least right
to reproach our French brethren.
At time when human hearts every
where are full of sympathy for the suf-
ferers of Paris the tongue and pen of the
bigot should be silent for very shame II
is no hour for the display OF that AFRO
giant Phariseeism which always sees in
the miseres of others Il divine judg-
ment' for their assumed wtckedness
Whatever power rules the universe, there
is no substantial reason for supposing 1t
to be that of a malevolent fend.
JAMES F. MORTON, Jr.
New York Feb / 1910
New-York tribune., 1910-02-04

receipts in the last seven months has
been almost S400o0,000. Ordinary eX-
penditures have increased only $1,000
600. Expenditures have undoubtedly
been held down, because the ordinary
outlay for I909-10 will probably exceed
that for 19oS-'09 by at least S50o0oWV
But even allowing for disproportionate
advance in expenditure between now
and June 80, the present deficit of So
6i4.656 is not likely 10 he materially IN
creased, since there will be further
gain in receipts, and as soon as the first
new issue of Panama bonds is foated
Sl9,136,00o of current funds advanced
since last July on the canal account can
be covered back into the current re-
sources of the Treasury.
The Treasury's cash account looks
low Just now because So much cash mas
been tied up in the canal, and Secretary
MacNeagh has delayed issuing bonds 10
release that casht in the hope that
currency legislation may be first OBJ
tained which will prevent a derange-
ment of bond values. There is reim-
bursable to the Treasury no less than
S1020Il121 IL diverted since 1904 out
of current receipts to the canal enter
prise. OF course. the repayment will
have To be gradual, but the loan is an
important asset TO be considered III
estimating the Treasury's resources, At
the end of June the first payments of
the corporation tax will also be avail
able. unless the Supreme Court decides
i'll the interim that that tax is not con-
stitutionally collectible. If there hap
pens to be Il deficit, therefore. on June
80. 1910, it will be more or less negli-
Sible because of credits not yet used
tinguish it.
New-York tribune., 1910-02-04
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
lFrom The Tribune Bureau-I


washington, Feb. 2.-The Fice-Presidsnt
and Mrs. Sherman entertained at dinner to-
night the Secretary of the Treasury ard
Mrs. MacVeagh, the Secretary of Way and
Mrs. Dickinson. the Attorney General and
Mrs. yickershara. the Secretary u tSs
NAVY and Mrs Mzyer. the SecretarT 0s ths
Interior ard Mrs Ballinger. the Secretary
OF Agriculture. Mrs T. T. Letter M-s
Norman Williams. Mrs. Nicoll Ludl)x
Senator Warren and Senator Bacon.
Senator and Mrs. Depew entertained az
dinner tonight Justice and Mrs SrsTeT.
senator and Mrs McCunber, Senator and
Mss Burnham. Senator and Mrs -srtsr.
Senator and Mrs. sutherland, Senator Bur-
ton, Senator and Mrs. Gugsenheim. Ar- ard
Mrs Timothy L. Woodruff, Governor and
Mrs. Toole, Representative and Mrs. Jar1es
Breck Perkins Representative anG 5Irs.
". NJ Calder. Representative George R.
Malby. Mr. and Mrs. c. c. Glover and Yrs.
". z. Ridgely.
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Brownson an
nounced to-day the engagement os their
daughter. Miss Caroline BrOVvusou, % Lieu
tenant Commando Thomas c.. Hart Tbs
marriage will take Elace in the near fI,uFs
Mr.. and Mrs John Hays Hammond en-
tertained a number OF New York and
Washington people at dinner tonight -
meet the minister to China and Mrs. W :
Calhoun
Among the hosts entertaining dinner par
ties tonight were General Black and his
daughter. Mrs. VTooman: 3Ir. AMI Mrs
Henry Cleveland Perkins. VI. and Nrs
Henry Kirk Potter. Representative sad
Mrs. Louden. Mrs Robson. Rear Admiral
and 8irs. McGowan. Solicitor General anil
Mrs. Bowers and General and Mrs John
A Johnston
Commander and Mrs. William Manning
Irwin entertained at dinner tonight for
Miss Leslie Lindsay. OF Boston IN ths
party were Miss AIsshire. Miss CarOIine
Murray. Miss Vera Downing Miss Mary
Davidson, Miss Elizabeth HOwFy. 8Gs4
Katherine BrittOn. Miss Stewart Hiss
Marguerite Barbour. Miss Baxter Mis4
Ruth PiIling. Miss Finley Commander No
Lean, Commander White, LieutznaE-
Bowel, Lieutenant Bristol Paymaster. .Ado.
Captain Johnston, Or. Davis Lieutenant
Pratt. Lieutenant Sultan. Lieutenant Goet-
halls. Lieutenant Edgerton. Lieutenant A.
exander and Lieutenant Hale
New-York tribune., 1910-02-04

was encouraging in a high degree tnat
the assemblies were regardful of their
constitutional rights and limitations,
that they conducted their proceedings
in Il dgnitied, orderly and businesslike
manner, and that instead Of indulging
in extrayagant and visionary proposals
they gave their attention to the most
practical and urgent subjects of imme-
diate public interest
In brief, DR.. Morrison gives us view
of legislatures working as seriously and
practically as though they had been in
existence for years and as though the
Chinese people had long been accus-
toned to representative government
This confirms the belief that the Chinese
are capable of awakening" as fully
and as effectively as Japan, though
probably they will achieve the work in
a radically different way. That awaken
Ing is now in progress. The process may
be slow, but it is earnest and methOdical.
1t is probable that the world will ere
long have to reckon with a new great
power. an empire of hundreds of mill
ions of intelligent industrious and reso-
lutte people, exercising self-goVernment
on an enlightened constitutional basis
and manifesting legitimate jealousy
of these national rights and digni-
ties which during the long period of
Chinese subserviency have been so
largely ignored by other nations.
New-York tribune., 1910-02-04
RECRUITS TO THE CAUSE.

The public spirit of the Jail prisoners
who. according TO a newspaper dispatch,
have Joined their fellows on the outside
In the strike against the high price OF
meat awakenS admiration. It might be
Imagined that persons placed under re
straint by society. for the protection of
society. would entertain some feelings
of resentment against the public gem
orally, and might even take an u1holy
joy in Watching the Meat Trust or the
law of supply and demand or the gold
output gouge the meat consumer. But
these individuals have not only sent
back untouched the portions of meat
allotted to them, but have signed petit
ton to the Sheriff to have that article
of diet stricken from their bill of fare.
When the sentiment against high
prices is so strong as would be indicated
by this, it is certainly time-we had
almost said nigh time-for soaring costs
to adjust themselves to a lower level.
When even our prisoners are willing to
eat Sawdust, shredded hay and the vari.
Gus other articles of food associated in
the public mind with a vegetarian
diet there can be no question as to the
temper of the people. Much has been
said in favor of modern prison methods,
but it is doubtful if the most ardent
supporters of humanitarianism in the
enforcement of prison discipline could
have hoped to develop within prison
walls patriotism which, if the Sheriff
takes the signers of the petition at their
word, will probably result in more rigor-
Gus adherence to the vegetarian prin-
ciple than will be found among the loud
est protestants on the outside, who make
speeches and circulate petitions in pub
lie and hasten around the corner to
dine on planked steak IN -nch and
half thick
New-York tribune., 1910-02-04
DIET OF CHILDREN.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: The clergyman's protest against the
remarks of DR.. Woods Hutchinson on the
subject of The Proper Food for Children
has encouraged ME to add mine
] am the mother OF seven unusually
healthy children Past the age of baby
hood and have for twenty years studied
the subject upon which DIR. Hutchinson
spoke SO authoritatiyely. My experience
absolutely disproves the statement that
the instinct of the child guides it to the
selection of proper food and the quantity
to be taken The average human product
of our modern civilization if permitted to
select his own food and eat all he feels
like eating will ge sick. and If he per
ssts in such course will be permanently
injured.
The statement in regard to dogs and cats
is quite as far wrong as that in regard TO
children. Puppies and kittens will delib-
erately turn from, the food they should
have, and win eat refuse or anything
that is handy, and will become sick lust
as the child does who follows his own
sweet will, and this in spite of plenty of
fresh air. exercise and freedom from
mental strain. PHYSICIANS WIFE
New York, Feb ., 1910.
New-York tribune., 1910-02-04
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
rFrom The Tribune Bureau. J

Washington, Feb. 5.-The President dis-
cussed the Ohio political situation Al di'
extended conference with Arthur |. FofSS'
Walter Brown, Republican state chairman
and Henry Williams. former state chan
man. to-day. w II. Phipps. of Ohio, also
discussed this subject with Mr.. Taft
S. C. Mead. secretary of the Merchants
Association of New York, accompanied Oy
REPRESENTATIVES Olcott and Bennett, enteIeu
a protest on behalf of the associaIi0'
against the publicity clause OF the coi
poration tax law. Mr.. Mead was assufeu
by Mr. Taft that this feature OF tle
measure would not prove detrimental "
anv CORPORATION. as the administration can
direct the Commissioner of Internal Kew
enue to withhold the reports from the gen
eral public.
Charles d. HiIles Assistant Secretary OF
the Treasury, was amcng the Presidents
callers Mr. HiI!es has been mentioned Tor
the office of Surveyor OF the Port of New
York, in place of James s. Clarkson. who
is to retire on leaving the White House
Mr. Hilles said he was satisfied with hts
present place.
Representative Bartholdt called at the
White House to make an engagement for
Saturday when he will take the subject
of a public buildings bill with Mr. Tart
Senator Jones introduced j. j. Browne.
representative of the Western Conservation
League. with headquarters at Spokane VINO
assured the President that If all power
sites were opened to entry it would greatly
reduce the consumption of the coal and
timber of the United States
The President has settled for the time
being the factionaI fight in Oklahoma over
the United States Attorneyship for the
Western District by requesting John
Embry, VINO rendered his resignation TO
take effect February 1, to continue in Of
flee indefinitely Mr.. Embry, who was
presented by Representative, Mcclure. con-
sented.
A delegation from Arkansas consisting or
G. A Cole state president of the Farmers
Union; NJ F. Dickinson. o. n. killauSh'
DR.. c.. z. Adams, Judge J. B. Walker and
Judge J. L. Light, and introduced by Sena-
tor Clarke and H. L. Remsen, sought the
support OF the President for federal drain
age of swamp lands. which they say viii
provide more valuable and economical farm
lands than irrigation.
Senator Depew asked the President 10
attend a dinner he is to give tomorrow
evening In honor OF ia members OF the
Republican Editorial Association Of New
York Mr. Roosevelt attended the dinner
several years ago, ana Ihe oeHdIoi tO'"
Mr.. Taft that the editors desired to meet
the present occupant of the White House
W. ]. Calhoun, the new Minister to China,
called to pay his respects TO the Presi-
dent. Mr.. Calhoun will sail from san
Francisco for Peking about March 3.
Representative Small introduced TO Mr..
Taft General ". P. Roberts. of Galesville.
n c., who claims to have been the young
est brigadier general of the Confederate
army.
The Presidents callers included the At
torney General, Senators Burkett Depew,
Jones and Lorirner, Representatives
Dwight Steenerson. Diekema, Austin,
Foster, Mcclure Gurney. Olcott and Ken
dali, and Henry NJ. Butler. Of Columbus,
Ohio
New-York tribune., 1910-02-04
CHINESE LEGISL4TURES.

Some recent remarks of ours concern
ing the hopeful character of the con-
stitution and opening sessions of the
Chinese provincial assemblies are more
than abundantly confirmed by the per
sonal observations and report of one of
the most expert authorities on current
affairs in China. The letter from DR..
Morrison, the veteran Peking CORE
spoDdent of The London Times" of
which we reprint a copious abstract,
affords at once Il vivid picture OF a
series of great historic scenes and a
judicious estimate of the purport and
enduring value Of this first attempt at
representative popular government in
the Chinese Empire, and it will be per-
ceived that his estimate is a high and
almost unqualifiedly hopeful one.
1t was no light thing that the i'm
perial decree of two years before was
faithfully fulfilled and that in the
eighteen provinces of China and the
three Of Manchuria local legislatures
were constituted by limited VET fairly
comprehensive popular franchise. 1t
was Of hopeful promise that at the time
appointed these assemblies met In an
orderly and intelligent fashion and en-
tered seriously upon the work of de.
yising ways and means for promoting
the popular welfare and for facllitat-
ing the complete establishment and
operation of the constitutional system
throughout the empire. 1t was char
acteristic Of the genius of the Chinese
people that in various provinces wide
spread instruction was given by lect-
urers, in advance Of the polling. in
order that the voters might understand
the new system and be enabled to ex-
ercise the franchise inteliigently. Ii
New-York tribune., 1910-02-04
WHERE SNOW MEANS DOLLARS

FROM The Lewiston Journal
Unless heavy snowfall comes With,
80 80, 'iiic' the thaws and rains of the iasr
' Meeh' WIncn washed away nearly an tbs
th, ow - Si'i GU the roads. will mean the loss nj
S4t S4ous'iiuS or dollars TO lumbermen i'm
n" It nc iie. ne pare ground makes il aimost
,aIt ,atIosS.o'e TO maui the lumber and a large
i,ar1 vi ,nc WlnterS cut is still in me-
s saaus MOST or the operators had snow
weat55a- " ~ WoFk on before the present
weT we1,"St e. SCI m and while the conditions
ahia "a tS ldeal, the roads were pass~
tba aniias All t.'e hauiings from the wards Ia
~ riH nun We're well under way when the
tIa stS1diu"" IN weather came and stopped
one bI,oGraSI ii;'umbermen operating Within
ths. Sle hHed th miles of Bangor suffered worsn
ti"ns in trntsJ,htr t.tiJhtr up the state. but condi~
bcsf The vs<rJok JJook County are not OF the
hoins SIi,I con,iIn4ed h,I but none OF the lngs = !,
New-York tribune., 1910-02-04
4mascmentS.


ACADEMY OF Observation-Disclosures Robin
ASTOR-S: :I5-SeVen DAYS.
RELASCo-s. .2o-Just q Wife
RTJOf--S 2o-The Lottery Man.
BRoADw AY-S: :I5-The jolly Bachelors
CARNEGIE 2:3o-Concert-
CASINO-s:15-TheC Chocolate Soldier
COLONIAL-e-S-Naud
CoMEDY-s:1b-The Watcher.
S-FITFRToN-S. .20-The Bachelors Bahy-
AIY'S-S:30-The Inferior sex
EDEN MUSEE-The world in Wax
EMP IRE-S:l 5-Mid-Channel-
FIFTH AVENUE Vaudeville
CsATFTY-S :I5-The Fortune Hunter.
GARRICK-S: :l5-Your Humble servant
GLOBES :l5-The Old Town.
HACkETT-S:I5-None So Blind
FAMMERSTEIN' So IFS .ls,--N auoeNitie'
HERALD SQUARE+S:I5-Old Dutch
HTPPODROME-2-s-A Trip to japan IN
side the Earth; the Ballet oi Je"eis, ,,x
HUDSON-S-Hindu Dances-s;la-A A1O0A'
star ,-,,r.,,
KNICKFRBOCK ER-s-The Dollar Princess
GIRERTY-s-The Arcadians.
LyCEUM-s:I5-Mrs. Dot.
LYRICS :15-The City. Nat,
MANHATTAN OPERA HoTSE-o--5rlssL,iu 3, =
MANINE ELLIOTTS THEAItE--S S.sV 'ie
Passin, Of tho Third Floor Back ,.
METROPOLITAN OPERA EOlSf-S--A'e
NEW TFRDAN-s:l5-Madauie X
NEW YORK-S .I5-The Young Turk
SATOT-s:I5-The Heights
STTYVES MS :15--The Lily
wATI.ACK' S. :15-Aliss Jimmy aleh'he-
BER.S-S:I5-Life Of the World
WEST ENDS :I5-The Prince OF BoheIilla-
New-York tribune., 1910-02-04
THE CABINET.
fFrom The Tribune Rureau. ]

From The Tribune Bureau
Washington, Feb. 3.-The President was
the guest O. the Postmaster General at
dinner tonight, and as Mr.. Hitchcock is
a bachelor Mrs John F. Hill. wife Of ex-
Governor Hill Of Maine. who accompanied
her husband here for the dinner, received
the guests with him. There was a generous
use of white and pink roses and sInilax
and the table. The Marine Band orchestra
furnished the music. Mrs. Charles Ander-
son, the sister of Mrs. Taft, accompanied
the President The other guests were Mr.
and Mrs Charles r. Brooker- OF Con-
necticut; Mr. anu Mrs. George ". Perkins,
of New York; Mr.. and Mrs. James j. Stor-
row, of Boston; Mr.. and Mrs Albert Shaw
and Mr.. and Mrs. James r. Sheffield. OF
New York; Mr. and Mrs. Robert l. Beck
man. OF Newport; Mrs Robert W. Pat
terson. Of Chicago; Miss Catlin, OF New
York: Mrs. Phillips, Miss Nina Hopkins,
Miss Mabel Boardman, Miss Marion Oliver,
L. T Stotesbury. of Philadelphia; FTeder-
ick Carpenter, John Philip Hill. OF Balti-
more: Frank Hale of Portland, and Mr
Catlin, of New York
The Secretary OF the Navy and Mrs
Never gave the second of their evening
receptions tonight In compliment 10 Of
ficers of the navy stationed in WaSh hing
ton apd their families. The reception was
preceded by a dinner III honor of Miss
Ethel Roosevelt, and dancing followed.
when a number of young diplomats and
men and women in society were present.
New-York tribune., 1910-02-04
THE MAYOR AND THE POLICE.

Mayor Gaynors various actions i'll
regard TO the police, taken individually,
have met with general approval, perhaps
with almost unanimous applause. he
has interested himself in the case OF
various "clubbers" investigating some
complaints TO q certain extent himself,
with salutary results and TO the satlsfac-
tion of the community. He has held an
inquiry into the arrest of an army Of
ficer, one OF those unjustitiable appre-
tensions of mere witness 10 arrests by
the police the general purpose Of which
is probably intimidation, and he has
properly called the attention of the po-
lice captain responsible therefor to the
limits of police authority. The position
that he thus took was sound, and
warning 10 the police in regard TO this
particular abuse of their powers was
necessary He has called various police
subordinates down to the Mayors office
TO discuss police affairs with them. pre-
ferrng TO do this rather than 10 cOmmu-
nicate his orders TO them through their
superior No doubt his counsel to them
was as excellent as has been his action
upon the various police questions Of
which he has taken personal cognizance.
Nevertheless, it is TO be observed that
the force is in an unusual state of dis
organization. RumOrs fly about from day
to day that the Commissioner tenure
Of office is to be brief and that the head
of the detective bureau is to be dis
placed. and it is apparent that the police
do not know who is III authority over
them. Commissioner Bakers friends
protest that the present uncertainty is
sUbversive of discipline, and even those
who have no special admiration for the
head of the department feel that he is
entitled to their sympathy. Meanwhile
the efficiency Of the force I'll dealing with
the graVer crimes appears TO be at the
lowest ebb.
No doubt much of this confusion is
unavoidable, because the Mayor must
personally busy himseITJn the affairs Of
the Police Department in order to i'm
press upon it the purposes which differ
entiate his administration from its
predecessors. But it silollld be his aim
Ia make his plans SO familiar to the
Commissioner and have his relations
with the department so SyStematiZed
that he would not be compelled person
ally 10 appear in its transactions except
on rare occasions. He should find. if he
has not one already, IA commissioner i'll
sympathy With his purposes and of suf-
ticient force 10 impress the character of
the administration upon the department.
He should either place his confidence in
one i'll whom lie can place his confidence.
II he should ill the department with
doubt whether its master was at Head
quarters or at the City Hall he would
destroy discipline and create disorgani-
gatiOn. That is always risk run by an
executive with passion for details