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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-05-25
TURKEY in BAD"
WITH The POWERS
Military Activity on the Monte
negran Frontier Arouses
Russia's Wrath.
SHARP NOTE is FORWARDED
Believed That Other European Coun-
tries Will Back Demand for
Less Aggressive Policy.

st. Petersburg, May 25.-A solemn
declaration of pacific intentions and
willingness to abstain from menacing
as the sole satisfactory answer by Tur-
KEY to the Russian note which was
sent to the Turkish government Tues
day.
The imperative character of the note,
which warned Turkey that the concen-
tration of Turkish troops along the
Montenegrin frontier since the Alban-
ian outbreak constituted a serious men
ace to peace, was dictated by the ser
iousness of the situation.
RUSSIA COUNTS ON SUPPORT.
In spite of criticisms by the German
press, which have been telegraphed
here, the Russian foreign Office consid-
ers the support of the majority of the
powers and the active cooperation of
Great Britain, France and Italy as
sured
The measures against Turkey, in
case that government proves recalcit
rant, may include the employment of
naval forces, which were efficacious in
the day of Abdul Hamid.
Russia has long watched the scene
of the Albanian uprising with anxiety,
and recent reports have left no doubt
as to the aggressive nature OF the mil
itary movement on the Montenegrin
frontier
CLAIMED NECESSITY.
Turkey explained the massing of
troops on the ground of strategic neces-
sity, claiming that the Albanian strong
holds of Gusinje, PLAYA and Berani
could be threatened only from the Mon
tenegrin side. The Turkish assertions,
however, have been received with
small credence by the diplomatic body
in Constantinople. because Turkey has
refused to allow foreign OBJ
servers 10 join the troops of Turgut
Shefket Pacha.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-05-25
ENGLAND and
WALES THRIVE
Growth of Population Nearly
Four Million During Last
Decade.
LONDON GETS ITS SHARE
Largest City in World Has 1888, 900.
Increase Being All in Outer
Boroughs.

London. May 25.-Provisional fig-
ures returned by the census officers
give the population of England and
Wales this year as 36,075 900 COM
pared with 32.52S,OO3 in 1901
LONDON Is BIGGER.
Greater London's population has
increased TO 7,253.OOo from $751;
600 in 1901. This increase is en-
tirely in what is known as the outer
ring, showing the people are moving
from the more crowded centers. In
fact many of the old metropolitan
boroughs and the city of London
proper have lost their population to
the suburbs.
COUNTY DECREASES.
The county OF London. including
the city of London and the boroughs
Immediately about it, shows a de-
crease from 4.536,267 in 1901 to
4,522, ,961 in 1911.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-05-25
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.

From noon today to noon tomorrow)
Sun sets 7:15, rises 4:So; moon rises
800 a. m-.; planet Mercury seen rising
Just before the sun; 115o g. m, moon
in conjunction with Mercury, passing
from west to east ofthe planet
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-05-25
The Weather

Forecast TIL p. NJ. tomorrow tor
Rock Island, Davenport, Moline
and Vicinity.
Fair and continued warm tonight
and Friday.
Temperature at a m II, highesf
yesterday SO, lowest last night 81.
Precipitation, none
per hour.
Relative humidity at p. m, 33, at
g. m S.
Stage OF water 3-s, a rise Of L IN
the last p hours
J.. M. SHERIER, Local Forecaster.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-05-25

consideration according to the views
Of the defendants, will, it is claimed,
quiet and give rest to the business
of the country. On the contrary, /
have a strong conviction it will throw
the business of the country into con-
fusion and invite widely extended
and harrassing litigation, the injur-
ious effects of which WIN be felt for
many years to come"
MEANT WHAT TT SAID.
Justice Harlan said the supreme
court adjudged many years ago that
congress, when 1t said there should
be no restraint of trade in any form,
meant what it thus said in clear and
explicit words, and that it could not
add to the words of the Sherman
antitrust act.
But those who condemn the action
Of congress are now, in effect, in
formed that court will allow such
restraints of interstate commerce as
are shown not to be unreasonable or
undue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-05-25

Continued on Page Four.I
Evening star., 1911-10-22
NneCdOfe8 COnce1nin0
Wen-knOWn PEOPLE.

the two old cronies came at last TO a
hill a couple OF miles from the town.
where they sat down to rest and enjoy
the view. The whole city of Marion was
spread before them and tile sergeant be-
gan to boast of how well he could see and
pick out the various buildings in the
town. The corporal kept pace with him,
until at last the sergeant exclaimed:
well, I'll bet | kin see somethin' you
cant"
Il bet We ye cant, neither rejoined
the corporal
Well. sir. see the courthouse clock
over there?''
Course l kin it," the corporal an
swered. with scorn. Yen hev to try
somethin harder'n that
Well now, kin We see that fly a crawl
ye see that
The corporal shaded his eyes with his
hand and gazed his face serious as If
he really believed in what he was doing.
He shook his head
Seems like / kin see somethin' crawlin
thar, but | oain't quite make il out; thar
by the figger leven.' he said.
NO. that ain't it" said the sergeant
scornfully; that's jest a speck on the
clock. No. the fy's up by the figger one;
see him, crawlin around up there"
The corporal looked at the sergeant in a
reproachful way. Cupping one hand back
of his ear. he replied:
No. sergeant, I've got to admit nv
eyes amt as keen as they used to be- I
CANT see that fly, but now that I listen
right sharp l kin hear him crawlin'"
Evening star., 1911-10-22

tree surgeon gloatingly eyed the elm and
after the fashion of his kind pronounced
it a beautiful case, and asserted that he
would carve it with joy. He dug
into the trunk and revealed depths Of
fungoid depravity that We're astonishing
He chopped and bored and shaved and
scraped and soused with corrosive subli-
mate. The chasm he produced seemed
big enough to sound the direful fate of
the most tenacious life in freedom. And
then he placed ladder against the tree
and climbed UP where he could bore
holes through the divergng stems. and
on the outer ends of the augur holes he
cut deep places for the boltheads and
nuts, and then inserted bolts and chains
and drew the chains taut, in such fash
ion that the iron bands prevented the
stems from separating and also bound
them together so that when they swayed
in the wind they swayed as one.
Then he descended and filed the great
cavity, which also was drawn together
with iron bolts. the heads of which We're
countersunk in the wood with d compost
ton of cement-jGst such cement as they
when they make an artificial stone
sidewalk-and he shaped it like the trunk
Evening star., 1911-10-22

War was passing through the Capitol
grounds when he saw some workmen
preparing to fell big elm, two already
having gone down before their axes. The
Secretary was much perturbed. and. urg
ing the men to wait a little. he hastened
to the chamber of the House and sue
ceeded in a very short time in getting
passed a resolution forbidding any one
to cut down the tree. There it stands to-
day, one of the most imposing and beau
tiful on the grounds.
Not all of the trees in the Capitol
grounds, of course, are ancient, nor do
all boast of historical associations. Yet
it would take time to replace even the
youngest of them, and people no longer
cut down ruthlessly the fine trees on
their premises unless they find ii I'M
peratively necessary to do SO.
While it is the policy now to plant ma
tive trees as much as possible around
the Capitol, that was not always the
case. and the grounds rese mble to GER
tai extent a botanical garden. Trees can
be found there from many foreign lands.
and some CT them possess much interest
There is the Christ tree, for instance.
so called because tradition says that
Evening star., 1911-10-22

state laws. was first agitated before a
Farmers Alliance lodge. whence the doc
tTine-then new to America-spread
through the land. at first but a smolder-
ing ground-fire that made little smoke.
and then with a skyward burst of flame
that politicians are both feeding and
fighting.
Nine years ago majority of voters of
Oregon adopted an amendment to their
constitution. declaring that 1.-The people
reserve to themselves power to propose
laws and amendments to the constitu-
ton and to enact or reject the same at
the polls, independent of the legislative
assembly, and also reserve power at their
own option to approve or reject at the
polls any act of legislative assembly,.
1t was enacted that per cent of
the legal voters of the state might initiate
any new law by petition. and that ;
per cent might order referendum of the
measure thus initiated-might refer it to
the voters for approval or disapproval
The amendment also provided that 1.-The
veto power of the governor shall not eX-
tend to measures referred to the people"
A law enacted directly by the people, by
the initiative and referendum system, in
1906, imposed a state license tax of =
per cent upon the gross receipts of all
express. telephone and telegraph COM
panies doing business in Oregon. A Port
land corporation, known as the Pacific
States Telephone and telegraph Com
pany decided to test the constitutionality
Evening star., 1911-10-22
cCE1IAToR, BoUR11E Or OREGON OACkSOM n NAl,SIoA
%

part of legislature. empowered to leg
islate without taking the oath Of afffrma-
ton which the federal Constitution re-
quires of state legislators, and without
taking the oath of Office required by an
act Of Congress passed in 17S9.
x x
II body of the voters Of Oregon con-
stitute themselves a part of the legisla-
ture, how-these attorneys want to know
can they comply with that part Of the
Constitution which specifies that state
legislatures shall at times take a recess
Since they are a legislative body. pre-
pared and empowered at all times con-
tinuOusly to enact legislation" they de-
prive the governor of his power, granted
by the Constitution of the United States,
to make temporary appointments to the
United States Senate during a recess OF
the legislature. In other words, if this
legislature never recesSes how can the
governor exercise his constitutional right
of making recess appointments?
The federal Constitution also provides
that the governor of a state may apply
to the United States for protection
against violence when the legislature can
not be convened. But the attorneys fight
ing the initiative and referendum main
tain that the governor handicapped by
that scheme can never apply for such
aid, for this same reason-that the legis-
Evening star., 1911-10-22

the initiative and referendum scheme
claim that inasmuch as the voters them
selves are now this most numerous
branch of the legislature" in Oregon. the
new law makes it impossible to determine
the qualifications of voters for members
of the lower house of Congress.
1t is claimed, too, that the Oregon
scheme empowers a part of the voters
of the state. by direct ballot, to deprive
the representative legislature of power
to consent to the purchase by Congress
of places in the state needed for the
erection of forts. magazines. arsenals,
dockyards and other needful buildings.
And the Constitution of the United States
is held to be Furthermore violated because
the Oregon system confers upon part of
the voters in the state the legislature s
rightful pOwer-tO prescribe the time.
place and manner of holding elections for
senator's and representatives in Congress:
to direct the manner in which the state
shall appoint electors for the election Of
President and Vice President; to consent
to the junction of the state with other
states or parts of states; to apply to the
United States for protection against do
mestic violence within the state; to ap-
ply to Congress for a convention to pro-
pose amendments to the federal Consti-
tuition and to ratify proposed amend
ments, and to choose senators in Con-
sreSs.
1t is charged also that the system Gre
ates within the state a legislature, or
Evening star., 1911-10-22
The Two Veterans.

LION GEORGE W. STEELE, one time
l representative from the eleventh In
diana district and later commandant or
the National Soldiers Home at Marion,
speaking of the foibles, vanities and
rivalries of the aged, told this of two
veterans residents al the home.
The sergeant and the corporal were
both far advanced In years. Both were
growing feeble: failing faculties kept
step with weakening limbs. But neither
seemed to be able to see in himself what
he so readily perceived in the other-the
fact that time was levying his toll on
both alike. and that age had laid
palsyng grip upon each.
The two veterans boasted, to each other
and to every one else, of the wonderful
keenness of their perceptive faculties.
and of the amazing feats of endurance of
which they were capable. To outsiders
this was a joke; to the two ancents it
was all deadly serious. until one day
when a boast of more than ordinary
magnitude let drop the scales over their
eyes.
Wandering in the country near Marion,
Evening star., 1911-10-22

of the initiative and referendum law. and
refused to pay. So the state sued for the
S1O,4jO claimed for the license tax. and
the test suit commenced in the Oregon
courts. in which the company has lost
and from which it has appealed to the
tribunal of final jurisdiction, the Supreme
Court of the United States.
The company claims that the initiative
and referendum system. under which the
tax law was passed, not only violates the
state but the federal Constitution, and
it is this latter charge that is Of vital
interest to the public at large, since the
decision will affect every state in which
the people. by this new method take from
the legislature a part of it's lawmaking
powers.
The lawyers contesting the initiative
and referendum scheme claim that it
constitutes as legislature a part of the
voters of Oregon not elected by the peo-
ple whereas the Constitution of the
United States in nine different sections
implies that the state governments shall
be representative and shall maintain rep
resentative legislatures. The federal Con-
stitution provides that in each state vot-
ers for representatives in Congress shall
have the qualifications required of voters
for 1.-The most numerous branch of the
state legislature. The lawyers fighting
Evening star., 1911-10-22
WoraEM VOTERS 1lKx Now ExERc1SE AAE' INITIATIVE
AND REFERENDUM IN COLORADO

of years; Colorado. which. with Arkansas.
has joined the procession in recent
months. and California. which within the
present month has adopted these doc
trines. together With the recall. In Maine
certain laws can be initiated by 1900
and referred by 10000 popular votes.
Ii is believed that an adverse de-
cision of the Supreme Court would
abolish the initiative and referendum
in most if not all of these states. whose
systems vary principally as to the per
centages of voters required to directly
initiate and refer new laws over the
heads of their legislatures Thus
while in Missouri only = per cent OF
the voters are required to both initiate
laws and refer them to the people in
Arkansas per cent is requisite to ini-
tiate and only per cent to refer while
percentages of all-15 per cent to both
initiate and refer-a proportion so high
that 1T Is deemed imperative by the
popular movements" partisans in other
states.
In eight other states constitutional
amendments adopting the initiative and
referendum have already been referred
to the people by the legislatures. but
have not yet been finally adopted. these
commemorative being California Wash
ington, Wyoming. North Dakota, Ne
braska. Idaho and Florida western
states except Florida. In Utah the sys-
TEN was approved by the Legislature in
1900. but has never yet been accepted
by the voters.
Even in Pennsylvania. the keystone
of the ancient colonial arch. the initia-
tive and referendum have been making
headway. Within the present year the
judiciary committees OF both houses of
the Legislature have made favorable
reports on the adoption of the system.
But in Texas the initiative and refer
endum. as feature Of municipal gov
ernment have lately received a quietus
from the state supreme court, which
by unanimous decision has ruled that
although the system may be constitu-
tional when used as a form of petition.
il cannot be final.
In other words in this tribunals
view the initiative and referendum
method amounts merely to an expression
~of the voters desire TO have certain idea >
adopted. but the constitution does not
give such expression the authority OF
law.
. Copyright 1911 by John Elfreth watkinsl
Evening star., 1911-10-22

itol were not to be allowed to die
without efforts. of a heroic nature if
necessary, being made to save them.
Not that efforts had not been made
ent of the Capitol buildings and
grounds; his assistant, David Lynn,
and his head gardener James Duff.
who learned all that they could teach
him in the old world. had rendered
first aid and had confessed that they
could do little mo<e.
1t was a pity. too. for there was the
great Washington elm, with it's body
riven and the cankerous spot eating
deeper every year into the heart of
the old monarch. And there was
promising young tree, hardly bigger
than the girth of a strong man, with
A lightning cash down its trunk, and
little hope that it could long survive
the hideous wound There were oaks
and elms and naples and chestnuts
and other inhabitants of the splendid
grounds which had suffered from va
riOus hurts. and which would have
their days shortened and their beauty
irrevocably marred for the remainder
of those days unless some remedy
could be found for their various all
ments. And as Supt Woods cherishes
those trees. and would as soon. al
mCst. see his arms severed as to al
low one of them to be cut down. lie
counseled with his assistants. and
finally II was resolved to call in the
best tree doctor they could find And
they called him in.
1t need not be recounted in technical
phrase how the experts came TO agree
on diagnosis and treatment. They finally
did agree and the Old monarchS of Cap
itol Hill were slated for surgical opera
tions of various degrees. Axes, saws,
Evening star., 1911-10-22

of the tree, leaving its surface even with
the inner bark. And it was filled nicely
into the groove around the edge of the
cavity. put there to keep the rain from
leaking in. Then the carpenter-dentist
nailed sheets of zinc over the whole. and
painted it over to resemble the bark of
the tree. and his work was done and ma
lures work was to begin. for nature is
expected to cause the bark to grow over
the zinc until at last the old wound will
be entirely healed and the scar will
scarcely be visible.
Sometimes tree doctors put bands OF
iror or chains or ropes around trees
which have been partly split asunder.
This is condemned as bad practice by
the newer school. Far better. they think,
to use the chains and rods piercing the
limbs or trunks and covering over the
wounds as carefully as possible.
Among the trees with a history is the
Cameron elm. named after Simon Cam
eron. Secretary of War in President Lin
coins cabinet and later senator from
Pennsylvania. One day the Secretary of
Evening star., 1911-10-22

wiping of The income tax law off the
statute books. when hundreds of thou
sands of people clamored for the return
of assessments Illegally collected.
Heading the list of counsel to appear
before the Supreme Court in support of
the initiative and referendum will be the
attorney general of Oregon. A. NJ. Craw-
ford. progressive, republican. Asso-
ciated with him will he George Fred Viii
liams former representative from Bos-
ton. who has been three times demo-
cratic candidate for governor of the Bay
state: also Jackson II. Ralston. demo-
crat and singIe-taxer of Washington, d.
c., who. following the Spanish American
war was counsel at the National Capital
for F'ilipe Agoncillo representative of the
Filipino republic. He will appear in the
initiative and referendum case particu-
larly as a representative of the Oregon
State Grange.
The chief spokesman of the counsel
aligned against the disputed system Will
be f. s. Pillsbury of the Portland hrm OF
Pillsbury & Sutro. His partner Oscar
raignment of the law. Associated with
them are Charles Henry Carey of Pert
land former vice president of the Amer1-
can Bar Association. and at one time re-
publican national committeeman for ore
gOn, and Harrison Allen of Portland.
Among the interested attorneys within
the bar of the court during the hearings
will be George E. Chamberlain or Port
land. who as a result of this popular
movement in Oregon was. although a
democrat. elected United States senator
by an unwilling Legislature which stood
seventy-six republican and fourteen dem
ocratic: and his colleague. Jonathan
Bourne. the first United States senator
ever chosen by the direct vote method,
and now president Of the National Pro-
gressive Republican League. which. from
its headquarters in Washington, is wag-
ing war against President Taft and for
the initiative and referendum method in
every state of the Union. Senator Bourne
has out -Bryaned Bryan in his zeal for
spreading the gospel of the initiative. ref
erendum and recall. and has mailed his
speeches on the system to millions of
voters scattered throughout the land.
The outcome of this important case
will be watched with nervous anxiety by
the states which. with Oregon, have al
ready adopted the initiative and refer
endum by constitutional amendment
South Dakota, which did so even foul
years before Oregon-the pioneer asita-
tOr-adopted il: Montana, which followed
in 1907; Oklahoma, Missouri and Nevada
which fell into line during the next couple
Evening star., 1911-10-22
London Jokes.

DAVID BELACO was talking to a
Il New York editor about an English
musical comedy.
at wasn't very fresh. he said. They
tell a story about it. According to
this story the manager took the lib
rettist aside one night at RomanO's,
and said:
Cut out all the old jokes
''Yes?' said the lbrettist, turning
pale.
cut out all the old jokes, re-
peated the manager and put in a lot
older ones Our London public's al
ways keen for something fresh.
Evening star., 1911-10-22
Doing Justice.

SENATOR LA TOILETTE was con-
demninG, at dinner in Madison.
that new feature of American life. the
lawyer who shows rich corporations how
they may legally break the law.
"A lawyers first duty" he said. with
smile. ''is to see that justice is done
and he who does her often enough be-
comes a Riverside drive millionaire"
Evening star., 1911-10-22

Exam the f the ree

hammers, chisels. augurs. iron chains and
bolts, sheets of zinc and pots OF tar ana
antiseptic dope formed part of the para
phernalia which the young men who un-
dertook to carry out the prescriptions
brought to the Capitol. Sometimes they
Sometimes they swarmed into the
tree tops like squirrels. But al
ways they worked busily and with
enthusiasm and they cut slashed, dug,
bored and hammered If they would
leave nothing behind them but chips and
logs fit for the fireplace. When they fin
ished with tree and were ready to put
the filling of cement into its great heart
il would look il a cabinet maker had
been busy with it, carving, chiseling and
aping the wood for mysterious pur-
poses.
x
But there was deep wisdom in this new
surgery. And it is new, as exemplified
at the Capitol, for never since man first
evinced love for the trees has any one
else ever mastered the secrets shown in
this marvellous work. And il is simple,
TOO. when one comes to inquire into it,
as all great truths are simple. 1t is
much like dentistry on human molar.
There are few principles in this. and
among them are these: TO clean out the
cavity thoroughly, and steriiiZe it; TO
make sure that there Is proper holding
prevent any leakage into the cavity after
the work is done,
BY way of showing why some things
are done in the new way. see how un-
learned tree doctors have sought to do
what the newer school has accomplished.
Take at random some tree which has
been dOctored up with cement Probably
the workman dug out as much or the