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Electric Light Contract.

A long discussion followed the reading
Of the paragraph directing the Commits
sioners to effect settlement for arc light
ing under the existing contract with the
Potomac Electric Power Company. This
revived the controversy, aired before the
appropriations committee several weeks
ago. with regard to the furnishing by the
Potomac Electric Power Company of arc
lights Of 700 candlepower when 1,00-can-
dlepower lights are mentioned in the con-
tract.
Representative Tawney told his col
leagues he doubted the possibility of the
District recovering any money from the
power company.
1T is" he said. purely a technical
money due the District. because If the
100 candlepower inclosed arc lamp is
equal to the 1,OO0-candiepower open arc
lamp there is nothing due. The electrical
steady and a more valuable light than the
1.GC0-candlepOwer open arc light in Use at
that time. There was no controversy until
the present Commissioners. seeing that
the present light was not rated in can
dlepower equal to 1000. felt that they
were not justified in paying the contract
price without reporting the facts to Con-
gress. In the meantime, they negotiated
with the Potomac Electric Light Company
or light in the future that will save the
first three years 100000 or more, and
after that about $4,000 year. That is
the result of their Withholding the money
on this contract. They have got a con-
tract and they have got a rate which, IL
it becomes legal rate. will inure to the
benefit Of the people Of the District"
After adopting All amendment rrovid-
ing that the Commissioners shall report to
Congress the terms of the settlement they
may make with the electric company, the
paragraph in question was passed.
The House then adjourned.
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pairs, including labor, equipment. sup
plies and necessary incidental and con-
tingent expenses, 5000
finder this paragraph, appropriating
$1,000 said Mr.. Johnson. 1.-The very next
paragraph, in order to carry out that al
lowance. creates forty-seyen new offices
at an expense of $15.S7O"
The chair oyerruled his point of order.
On motion by Mr.. Mann this play
grounds paragraph was passed over tenn
porarily. Mr.. johnson made a point of
order against the ensuing paragraph-for
salaries of those employed in connection
with the Fairgrounds. The point of order
was sustained Further discussion of the
Fairgrounds was by unanimous consent
postponed until today.
The paragraph providing for the recla-
nation of Willow Tree alley and the crea-
ton Of a park where the unsightly alley
now exists was stricken from the bill on
point of order by Representative john
son of Kentucky.
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Point of Order Sustained.

At the conclusion of the discussion a
point of order made by Representative
Carlin of Virginia against the Peters
amendment was sustained and the propo-
sition eliminated.
The House then took up the paragraphs
in the bill providing for Fairgrounds
There was big fight on this question
last year when an exception was made
In this particular instance of the general
law providing for half-and-half appro-
priation for District purposes and the
local government was forced to pay the
entire cost of the Fairgrounds.
This year the House appropriations
committee recommended that $1,000 be
appropriated for Fairgrounds, half to be
paid by the federal government and half
by the District. and that s13.s7O be APP
prOpriated to pay the salaries of those
employed for playground purposes, this
entire amount to be paid wholly from the
revenues of the District.
Provision Receives Approval.
Representative johnson of Kentucky
just before the House adjourned last
evening made point of order against the
paragraph, and Representative Parsons
Of New York submitted an amendment
that the $3.50 also be paid on the half
and-half principle.
Today Mr.. Johnson withdrew his point
of order and Mr.. Parsons withdrew his
amendment. Consequently the play
ground provision was approved by the
House as IT came from the committee.
When the provision for the purchase
Of text books for use by the pupils of
the public schools was reached, Mr..
Johnson offered an amendment TO the
furnished only to INDECENT pupils Of the
public schools. On Il rising vote this
proposition carried, % to Is. But Rep
resentative Gardner of Michigan, in
and this time the johnson amendment
was defeated. "a to 81. Then the Ken
tuckian made point of no quorum,
but was not. sustained, Representative
Stafford Of Wisconsin. who was In the
chair, managing to see quorum. To
the unframed eye only about fifty men,
bers were on the floor.
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Opposes Fairgrounds Items.

Representative Johnson Of Kentucky
made a point OF order against the play
grounds paragraph for maintenance, re-
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Naval Orders.

Rear Admiral w. c. cowles has been
commissioned.
Passed Assistant Surgeon NJ. e. Lando
resignation accepted to take effect Janu.
airy 81. 1911.
Passed Assistant -Paymaster T. J
Bright, from navy yard, Puget Sound
WASH. to Philadelphia, Nipsic. Nava
Hospital. yard craft and submarines.
Passed Assistant Paymaster r. B. Lup.
ton. from Philadelphia, Nipsic, Nava
Hospital, yard craft and submarines. navy
yard, Puget Sound, Wash, and continue
other duties.
Chief Carpenter 8. FYoathe, from naya
station, New. Orleans, La, to Naval Med
ical School Hospital, Washington, d. c..
for treatment.
CARPENTER J. A. Davis. to naval station
New Orleans. La.
Pharmacist 8. \ Wierzbicki, to Nava
Medical School Hospital Washington
d. c.
Commander r. o. Bitter, from Helen.
to home.
Commander c. M. knepper, from nava
station, OlongapO. p. l.. to Helena
Ensign G. c. Logan, from New York Il
Elcano.
Ensign c. NJ. Yates. from Mohican t,
Barry.
Passed Assistant Paymaster E. A. Nc
~o' " uasa statioh' Oiongapo, +. L.
Passed. Assistant Paymaster w. c. Fife
from Olongapo. p. l.. to Monterey.
Assistant Paymaster r. " de w
Blocker, from naval station, Cavite. p
l.. to bureau Of supplies and accounts
WashiEAson, d. c.
Carpenter A. 'Bledsoe, from New Yorl
to Monterey.
Ensign F. ]. Fletcher. DISCHARGED treat
ment Naval Hospital, Canacao, p. T.. t.
Dale. =
Ensign Z. W. Jukes, discharged treat
ment Naval Hospital Canacao p Z,
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Representative Gardner explained that
this entrance to the park is not for the
benefit OF any particular interest. but is
for the general public. 1t leaves the high
way that intersects Columbia road at 18th
street. You now have to go long way
around or come way back near COnnec-
ticut avenue in order to get into the park.
This is to go down through u ravine at
convenient grade, for the road that en-
ters there cannot be travelled by vehicles.
1t Is the judgment of the Commissioners
that not less than two-thirds should be
assessed against the property owners. 1t
may be more but We accepted their judg-
ment''
Representative Foster of Illinois then
withdrew an amendment he had offered
eliminating the two-thirds proposition in
the paragraph and offered another, pro-
viding that all the damages should be as
sessed as benefits. This met opposition
and was defeated.
Representative Carlin of Virginia made
a point OF order against the paragraph
empowering the Commissioners to organ
ize a force to sweep the streets of the
District instead Of letting the work on
contract He was sustained and the para
graph went cut.
Representative Cary of Wisconsin re-
served a point of order. against the pro-
vision 'for cleaning snow and ice from
streets, sidewalks. cross walks and gut
tiers in the discretion of-the Commissions
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ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
Robinson Held for Grand Jury
on Federal Charge.
breaches TO CONFERENCE
Rev. J. w. Masedale Addresses Free
acknowledgements Company
Granted Charter.
breaches TO CONFERENCE
,cinl orresnonflencn of The Star.

Special Correspondence of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA,, Va, January 2S, 1911.
John W. Robinson, colored. of Orange
Va, was arraigned before United States
Commissioner r. p. W. Garnett this
morning and given preliminary hearing
on a charge of sending obscene matter
through the mails. He was held for the
action of the grand jury at the July term
of the United States court In default
Of bond in the sum of $500 he was COM
mftted TO The Alexandria county Jail.
The alleged offense occurred December
last and at the January term of court
capias was issued for Robinson's arrest.
He was brought here by Deputy United
States Marshal David Z. Robey.
The quarterly conference of the Free
Methodists. which began Thursday last,
held a meeting at $50 o'clock this mo. n
ing and this afternoon a sermon was
preached by Rev. j. W. Masedale, his
subject being Holiness as a Second
Distinct Taste There will be a saliva
ton meeting at 7:3O o'clock this evening.
Regular quarterly meeting services will
be held at 1880 o'clock tomorrow morn
ing, $50 o'clock in the afternoon and
80 o'clock in the evening.
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ers. including services. $1,000" He asked
how much there was in the fund at pres
ent
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The West Virginia and Maryland have
arrived at Santa Barbara; the Paducah
and Yanl<ton at Guantanamo: the Pauld-
ing at Key West; the Dubuque and
Patapsco at Norfolk: the Delaware at
Sewall point: the Tacoma at Livingston:
the Prometheus at Mare Island; the Mars
at Hampton roads and the Vicksburg at
Amapala.
The Stewart has sailed from Mare
Island for San Diego: the New York, Al
bany and New Orleans from Manila for
cruise In the southern Philippines: the
Baltimore from Philadelphia for Charles
tom the Rocket from Indian Head for
norfolk: the Vulcan and Hector from
Guantanamo for Hampton roads and the
Princeton from Amapala for Panama.
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PROBATE COCRT-Justice Gould
Estate OF Elisa Ballauf; will dated De-
cember Is. 1901. filed.
Estate Of Herman y. Fay; exemplified
The Washington herald., 1911-05-02
FOLLOW WASHINGTON'S LEAD,
Paducah Women Ask School Chill
dren to Beautify Yards.

From the Louisville Courier Journal.
Three thousand school children in
Paducah put in a couple Of afternoons
recently in clearing up the back yards
at their respective residences. The work
was done at the suggestion of the
Woman's Club Of Paducah. In addition
to the cleaning up. an effort will be
made to induce the children to beautify
the back yards by planting vines and
flowers along unsightly fences.
The spirit Of Identification should not
make the front lawn its permanent abid-
ing place. There is a pretty general
tendency to neglect the back yard. About
spring cleaning time 1t gets "a lick and
a promise" About the time the sanitary
inspector 10 due 1t Is curried over with
rake and made to look fairly presen-
table and passably germless. For the
rest Of the year in a majority OF cases
it is left to take care OF itself. The front
yard gets ''barbered" about once a week
and manicured and massaged between
times. but the back yard looks more
disorderly than a Populist beard in a
Kansas cyclone and more disreputable
than one Of James Eads Howe's hobo
conventions
There is no good reason why the con-
trast between the front yard and the
back yard should be SO marked; why
the front yard should be groomed like
a prince while the back yard is garbed
like a pauper. In the nature of things
1t is somewhat difficult to make the
rear premises as attractive as the front
lawn, but it is easily possible to keep
the back yard clean and sanitary-and
that is of sufficient moment to the
household health and comfort to justify
whatever effort is required.
Why not give the back yard
chance? Why not make it ornamental
as well as useful? Why not give it a
bath. a shave, and shine with the
same regularity that those courteous
attentions are extended to its pampered
neighbor. the front yard?
The Washington herald., 1911-05-02
spsr;al Cable to The Washington Herald.

Special Cable to The Washington Herald.
London. May 1.-Everybody who has
seen the gorgeous trousseau Of Lady
Decies Is wondering what the pretty
American bride will do now that Queen
Mary's ban has gone forward against
"hobble' effects and tight skirts at the
coronation, for whenever the youthful
and pretty young woman has appeared
she has been remarked for the ultra
tightness Of her American-made clothes.
English court matrons state that Lady
Decies will be obliged to have an entire
new wardrobe.
The former Miss Gould's wedding
gowns were made with regulation court
train effect with the coronation in mind.
Even it must be remodeled to meet the
almost Victorian prudishress of Queen
The Washington herald., 1911-05-02
LADY DECIES MUST
DEHOBBLE FOR QUEEN
Edct for Coronation Demands Women Wear Sen
sible Clothes When Presented to
Royal Maiesties.

I Mary. AS for her other frocks, they were
all cut in the tight hobble fashion.
At the Punchestown races recently
Lady Decies astonished the Irish ladies
by wearing draperies SO tight that her
big husband was obliged to help her up
the grand stand stairway. While her
gown was Of brilliant silk, accompanied
by a plume trimmed hat, the others
about her appeared in heavy tweeds and
walking hats.
Among the pretty frocks seen on Lady
Decies, which are tabooed on account Of
the court edict, is a tailor-made white
serge with a skirt with inserted plated
panel trimmed with buttons. The panel
gives the hobble effect so much disliked
by the Queen. With this gown, Lady
Decies wears a black straw hat trimmed
with black velvet and pink rosebuds.
The Washington herald., 1911-05-02
ARMY ORDERS.

Leave Of absence for three months. TO take effect
upon his relief from duty in Newark. Del. is
granted First Lieut. EDGAR =. STAYER
Twentythird Infantry.
Leave Of absence for two months to take effect
upon his relief from duty in the Pay Depart
ment is granted Lieut.. Col. WILLIAM r.
BLAUVELT. infantry.
First Lieut.. DEAN HALL, Coast ARTILLERY Corps.
Is relieved from duty with the Fnty-second
Company and attached to the lid Company.
Leave Of absence for four months. take effect
upon his relief from duty at the Army Serv-
ice Schools Is granted Capt. WILEY
HOWELL. Sixth Infantry
The Washington herald., 1911-05-02
GIRLS SOCIETY MEETS.

Business Meeting and Dance In.
cluded in Programme.
The Girls Friendly Society of the
Episcopalian Diocese Of Washington gave
its annual reception and dance at the
National Rifles Armory last night. Men
were not invited.
afternoon at st. Marks Church. at which
the following officers were elected: Mrs.
H. c. Bolton, president: Miss Marion
oliver, vice president; Miss Mary Nc
CURE, secretary; Mrs. J. c. Boyd. treas
urere
The Washington herald., 1911-05-02
PICTURES WILL BE SHOWN.
Capital Camera Clubs Exhibition Il
Omen on Thursday.

The twelfth annual exhibition OF pho
tographs by the Capital Camera Club will
be given in the hemicycle OF the Corcoran
Gallery of Art, May to Is. There will
be on exhibition 2es pictures. the work OF
eighty-six exhibitors, many of them mem.
bers Of out-of-town clubs.
The pictures have been judged by a
jury of artists composed of R. N. Brooke.
president of the Society of Washington
Artists: E. c. Messer. principal Of the
Corcoran School of Art; James Henry
Moser, president of the Washington Wa
ter Color Club. and Mathilde NJ. Leisen-
ring. portrait painter. No awards Of
prizes are made at these exhibitions:
Francis c. Crow. president Of the Capital
Club. will be in charge of the exhibition.
The public is cordially invited
The Washington herald., 1911-05-02
NAVY ORDERS.

Capt. f. ". KELLOGG. detached duty command
Indiaha; to duty navy yard Portsmouth,
N. H., connection fitting cut Maine and to
duty in command Of that vesse! when placed
in commission.
Lieut. Comman W. 7. CLUvERIUS detached
duty Massachusetts,; to home and wait orders
Lieut. j. &. TAUSSIG. detached duty Louisiana
to duty Delaware.
Lieut. L. ]. CONNELLY, orders April ls 1911,
modified detached duty Missouri; to duty navy
yard, Boston, Mass.
Midshipman H. g. COOPER. IT,, detached duty
Louisiana; to temporary duty Franklin
Passed Assistant Surgeon X. HAYDEN, detached
duty Naval Hospital. Norfolk. Va; to duty
Naval Medical School Hospital, Washington,
d. o..
The Washington herald., 1911-05-02
Agricultural Implements,
;ugressional. Recor,

From the Congressional. Record.
Mr.. Stanley-An agricultural imple.
ment. generically speaking, is an imple-
ment used in the tilling of the soil
whether you are raising a potato or
raising a ear Of corn. applause on the
Democratic side)
Mr.. Mann-The gentleman, then. In
cludes all market gardening tools?
Mr.. Stanley-Why. certainly. I would
not cut the gardeners out. You would.
Mr.. Mann-All right. Are knives aRrt-
cultural implements?
Mr.. Stanley-Not table knives
The Washington herald., 1911-05-02
Temperance Event Planned.

The field day temperance committee of
the w. c. T. U. met yesterday afternoon
and decided to hold field day athletic
meet at River View on June 1s. All tenn
perance and Christian societies and
women's federated clubs will be invited
to attend. Mrs. Charles A. Williams. Of
1922 street presided.
The Washington herald., 1911-05-02

waits and Of the use they were making
of their lives. Mgr. Falconio. apostolic
delegate to the United States, after in
| for its efforts
The Washington herald., 1911-05-02
CONCERT A SUCCESS
Monday Morning Club Ends
Banner Season.
MRS. BLAIR As CONDUCTOR

Gifted Women Singers Give Artistic
and Beautiful Rendition of Classi-
cal Numbers Before Distinguished
Audience at the New willard.
Miss Banks Scores Triumph.
The Washington herald., 1911-05-02

French patent covers Q process for bleaching
and drying seaweeds 50 they may be used for pack
ing purposeA
The Washington herald., 1911-05-02

Gray horses arc the longest lived; aeau+colored
ones the most easily affected bg changes In tempea-
ture. .... -..
The Washington herald., 1911-05-02
GIRLS SEWING PRAISED.

Christ Child Society Holds It's An
nual Meeting.
The Christ Child Society Of Washington
yesterday held its annual meeting and ex-
hibition at Rauscher's. The work of the
poor girls attending the sewing schools
was on exhibition.
Rev. William Kirby In an address
praised the work of thte society among
poor children Of this city. He said that
it would be a good lesson to rich moth
ers IL they could see the work OF the
The Washington herald., 1911-05-02

Mr.. and Mrs. oscar T. Crosby and the
Misses Crosby closed their apartment in
the Dupont and left Washington yester-
day for their country homo, near War
reuton, Va.
The Washington herald., 1911-05-02

Mn. william Kuttayer was hostess at
luncheon yesterday at her home IN Six
tsenth street. which was followed by
bridge.
lGiss MaxgarektA evmoas returned to
Washinetoa xoekee1a 1xua Du6Alo,
The Washington herald., 1911-05-02

Mrs. John Cropper. who will close her
Washington residence the last Of this
month, will sail from New York June
3 on the Baltic to spend the summer
months with her cousins. Marquis and
Marquise Saint-Mars.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-28
WEALTHY MERCHANT DIES
Retired Silk Dealer Suicide by
Poison, Coroner Says.

Heinrich Meyer a wealthy retired silk
merchant. who still retained an interest
in the silk importing business Of Passa
want a. CO.. at Nos. 13 and IL Greene
street was found dead in his room at
the Hotel buckingham last night Cor
oner Holtzhauser said he has no doubt
Mr.. Never committed suicide. A gla-s
containing a white sediment was fou. d
in the room. The Coroner says he be-
leves the sediment 10 be cyanide Of
potassium.
letter addressed TO his wife. Mrs
Ada Meyer, was found, and also an open
note on the letter which read:
Mrs. Meyer will be at Or. Peterson's
at , O'Clock Telephone him / am very
sick and want him 10 come over with
Mrs. Meyer without fail. Don't let the
people i'm the hotel know
The note was unsigned The letter ad-
dressed To Mrs. Meyer was sealed. She
did not disclose it's contents
Mr.. Meyer sent his chauffeur out on
an errand yesterday afternoon, and
when he returned he found his employer
sitting In "A chair breathing family. He
hurried downstairs and informed Mr..
Meyers private secretary. Charles Mon
roe. who called two doctors at once.
They worked over the aged man. but he
died. despite their efforts.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-28
LOST-AN ASTER0ID
Harvard Observatory Hears
Astronomers Made Mistake.
TBv Telegraph to The Tribune. J

TBy Telegraph 10 The Tribune
Cambridge. Mass, oct. 1.-THE Har-
ward Observatory favors starting lost
and found" column i'm astronomical cir
cles If 1t will result in the relocation OF
asteroid MT" which was discovered on
october 3 by Palisa, Of Vienna. The fol-
lowing day tine freak planet gave a
glimpse of Itself 10 Professor Pechuli, OF
Copenhagen. Nothing has been seen of
II since The astronomers, however, at
Greenwich, England. evidently got
crossed in their calculations, for the
Harvard Observatory received informa-
tion yesterday from Kiel, Germany, that
asteroid Mt was observed at Green
wich. England. at 10 p. m. last Wednes-
day.
Another cable dispatch came to Har-
ward to-day, which said that the planet
was still missing the Greenwich astron-
omers having been mistaken in their
calculations. The asteroid is different
from it's kind inasmuch as ii is moving
in an entirely different direction than
tn. seven hundred members Of its fam
ily and is travelling many miles Easter
than the earth.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-28
FRUITS OF MURPHYISM
low Legislature Abolished Court Of Claims
to Get Jobs.
PUT THROUGH AT LAST MOMENT
Bill Signed by Governor Dix Despite Its Denunciation
an Attack on the Judiciary.

the three judges of the court and per-
mitted the Governor to appoint their
successors. This was so rank, so arrant
a piece of partisan job grabbing that
howls of protest went up from all sides
In the first place it was denounced as
unconstitutional, as many lawyers held
this court To be court of record in
the fun meaning of the constitution
which forbids legislative attacks on
courts of record
The Democrats who wanted these jobs
contended that it wasn't; nevertheless,
at the last they decided they didn't want
any lawsuits on that score and would
play safe by abolishing the court abso-
lutely and then substituting for it a
board of claims with similar duties.
Attorney General Carmody, himself a
Democrat, insisted that the change in
the court was against the interests of
the state. I'm vigorous language he de-
clare:l publicly that the court was trans
acting its business well and satsfacto-
rly. He pointed out that its calendars
we're crowded with cases and that any
change i'm it would entail confusion and
complications, with much delay and per-
haps great injustice in the settlement OF
claims This was important in connec-
ton with the many claims arising from
the construction of the barge canal. To
reorganize the court arbitrarily" he
wrote TO Justice McLennan, presiding
Justice of the Supreme Court, 4th De-
partment, would swamp the Attorney
Generals office as well as the court.
"In the confused desire for fame and
economy, etc." wrote the Attorney Gen
eral (which seems more powerful in
some quarters than common sense, these
reasons perhaps will not receive their
due weight They didn't.
Justice McLennan had expressed his
opinion of this attack on the courts
frankly He said the court was doing
splendid work, both for the state and the
litigants in the court. 1t was compare
lively rare he said for an appeal 10 be
taken. and this came with weight from
him, the presiding justice Of the court 10
which appeals from the decisions of the
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