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The daily sentinel., 1912-01-30
THE WOODMEN
DISCUSS RAISE
Grand Junction Members as Well as
Those in Every State, Have Much
to Say About the Rate In
crease in Their Insurance.

Ever since the announcements was
first made in The Sentinels $ Associat-
ed Press dispatches to the effect that
the Modern Woodmen of America had
voted to raise the insurance rates of
the order, the matter has been topic
of lively discussion among Grand
junction Modern Woodmeu- Howev-
er, from what The Sentinel can learn
the increase is generally accepted in
good grace among the local members,
but from the reports from various
parts OF the country the increase in
the rates is meeting with daeided dis
approval in the west
The following dispatch came out
OF Kansas City yesterday;
Kansas City, Mo, Jan. 29-ALodern
Woodmen of America in Kansas are
talking of seeding from the order
because OF the increase in insurance
rates made at the convention in Chi
cago- There are 81, 900 Woodmen in
Kansas A meeting of Woodmen to
discuss the situation will be held in
Kansas City, kas., Friday night.
The Kansas delegates to the Chi
cago convention were instructed to
vote against any increase in the rate
IL was carried over their protest
E a. Enright of Kansas City, who
returned from the Chicago convention
last night, says the order has spread
recently to the east, whose Young
delegates raised the rates over the
protests of the old western charter
members
The daily sentinel., 1912-01-30
Home from Virginia.

William Lacy returned home yes
terday from a visit of several weeks
in Fredericksburg, Va.
The daily sentinel., 1912-01-30
TO Mines.

John Fonder left this morning for
his mining Interests in the UrnaNeep
canon, where he will spend tine next
few weeks.
The daily sentinel., 1912-01-30
Rack to Ranch.

r. II. Sawyer left this morning for
his ranch, the Elk Glen orchards on
Kaunah creek This is his first trip
to the property since going east re-
Gently.
The daily sentinel., 1912-01-30
Nickery Back

Vickery Back.
At. Il. Vickery returned at noon
from trip to Grand Valley and
Rifle.
The daily sentinel., 1912-01-30
Here for Day.

Here Tor Day.
f. J. Richards. glad hand man for
the talk trust here, with n. II. Cas-
tie, spent the day in the city return
ing this morning to Delta.
The daily sentinel., 1912-01-30

Seasons latest style White Buck
Shoes at Elliott's Shoe Store.
The daily sentinel., 1912-01-30
To Oregon

w. B, MCCary was passenger last
evening for Ontario. Ore. where he
will spend the remainder of the win
ter
The daily sentinel., 1912-01-30

Hauling of any description done in
the most satisfactory manner by the
Milne Transfer company. 319 Col
orado avenue. Phone Junction 22S.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-01
THE RIGHT WAY.

The speech on pension legislation
which Senator Cummins made last
Monday contains suggestion which
the Senate ought to heed if it passes
a general pension bill at this session.
Mr.. Cummins said that In favoring
larger pensions he was not greatly In
tluenced by merely fiscal considerations.
He thinks that I'VE are able TO do what
I'VE ought To do. whether IN doing it
I'VE add to our appropriations twenty
millions forty millions or seventy
millions" But in Difference to the
opinions Of those who have pointed out
that the governments revenues are not
large enough to meet an extra annual
draft of either forty millions or seventy
millions he is willing to cOncede that
Congress ought to impose new taxation
at the same time that ii votes larger
pensions
The Senator from Iowa is 4 little
mysterious about the sort OF new taxa
tion which he favOrs lcvying. He says
that the present ordinary income of the
government is practically all obtained
by taxation "on the consumption Of the
people" He naturally shrinks from in
Creasihg that sort of taxation, confess
ing frankly: IF | believed that to in
Grease pensions, or TO add to the ex-
"pendtures of any other field Of ex-
'penditure would. as Il consequence.
require us to still further tax the con-
sumption of the people ana especially
"of the poor people, | would hesitate
long before giving my assent to any
increase in appropriations" But II
new revenue must be raised, from what
other sources than customs and internal
revenue is ii TO be obtained?
We wish that Mr.. Cumnins had been
more definite. He assures us that there
"is way in which the government can
add TO its revenue and do justice to all
"its citizens" What is that way: He
talks about getting the money from the
rich and leaving the poor untouched.
Does that mean that he purposes i'm
posing an income tax without waiting
for constitutional authority to do So an
inheritance tax or an excise tax on
automobiles. yachts and other convey
anccS &c IurcP 1t would he interesting
to know just how Mr.. Cummins is going
to get the extra millions ont Of the rich
alone without adding TO the taxation of
those not SO claSSiiiable.
Yet in the economic principle which
he lays down the Iowa Senator il abso-
lutely right Any pension bill creating
a new annual liability Of either SiO,-
100000 or $7O,0O0GO0 ought to carry as
one Of its sections new tax legislation
assuring the collection Of one or other
Of those sums. We hope that Mr.. cum
minis will see to it that the new income
is provided before the new outlay Is
incurred.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-01
MAJOR BUTT ENGAGED?
Rumor of Betrothal to Hiss Dor
othy Williams Revived.
IErom The Tribune Bureau.

Washington. FEB @9.-The announced de-
parture on leave Of absence OF MAJOR Archi-
boId Rutt tho Presidents aid and conn
den,ial friend. has accentuated tonight IN"
rup,or of his engagement to Miss DorothN
Williams. daughter OF Colonel ana MIS-
.John Il. Williams and sister of Mrs. joseph
7 otter. The friendship Of Major Butt anu
Miss Williams f. undoubted and tne al
,,iration of one for the other unquestoheo'
hut no confirmation or denial ot the report
az two engagement could be obtained at
,ha homo OF Colonel Williams. As Major
Rutt will sail from New York on SATURDAY
for Naples. 1t is thought by some oil MIS-,
NyiIiiars's friends that the engagement VII.
be announced just before his departure or
tr rot thea Immediately upon th' return
.of N,ior Butt To this country IN May
Some of their most ardenty htoreS'e"
friends even suggest that they intend 10 ne
or,i.,lv ard sail together on their
Wedding journey.
Nifs Williams has been duly ens"se" 30
Far as rumor goes-to about all OF 'ne
.uoible men in Washington society since
she made her debut two or three years aso'
rba most persistent OF these rumors en-
.,,ccd her 10 Postmaster General iiltch-
noct Rpt as one OF Miss William s mt
80, friends expressed II. the Postmaster
loaf out I'm the homestretch. Miss Nilhams
Is prcttv. accomplished, vivacious ana he'
dipsd and danced with more and met MAJOR
Rutt oftener than any other girl ot the
same set.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-01
f STRONG POSITION.

la an article in the current issue OF
The Outlook" which we quote at
length this morning. President Taft re-
states his confident belief that the voters
will show at the polls next fall their
preference for his programme Of scicn'
tific tariff revision over the rival Demo-
cratic programme Of slashing away at
the schedules in the dark. He is entirely
willing to 20 to the country on his policy
of maintaining an expert tariff board
for the purpose of supplying information
as to industrial conditions here and
abroad in Industries affected by customs
rates and Of using that information 10
make the protection given fairly repre-
sent the difference in the cost Of pro-
duction here and abroad. II the Demo
cratic party wants to ind0rse the tariff
record of the present House Of Repre-
Scntatives it will have TO defend the
opposite policy of rejecting the assist
ance of permanent non-partisan board
Of experts and Of trimming rates up
and down arbitrarily to suit the whims
of politicians or appease the demands
of favored sections and interests.
1t is becoming more and more evident
that the Democratic majority Of the
House Of Representatives has merely
played politics" with the tariff. 1t
has pretended to be willing TO do every
thing possible 10 reduce tariff rates in
the consumers interest. but at the same
time it has manpuvred so as to bring
about a deadlock with the President
and TO prevent actual reduction at any
point. Whether Mr. Underwood aimed
at that result or not, his leadership has
operated TO keep the present schedule
intact and to discredit the sincerity Of
the Democratic party's boosted purpose
to tighten tariff taxation. Had Mr. Tn
derwOod been a confessed "stand-patler'
he could not have labored more adroitly
or successfully to prevent tariff legisla-
ton Of any sort by this Congress.
The country is sick of the Underwood
programme of indirectiOn and false pre-
tence. President Taft is right in hold
ing that the voters will approve his plan
Of intelligent. orderly, non-polltical re
vision in preference to the evasivc, hap
hazard, dark lantern method to which
the Democratic party has been com
mitted
New-York tribune., 1912-03-01

actual Intervention might commend itself
by it's results. The war seems TO nave
fallen into the condition of drawn
game. Neither beligerent shows as
sured ability to conquer the other. Italy
possesses the African lttOral, but cam
not 90 In and occupy the inland regions.
Turkey holds her ground inland, but can
not drive the Italians from the coast
into the sea. 1t Is realization OF the
tabled conflict between the elephant ana
the whale. or the tiger and the shark.
There is the possibility. which was dis
cussed the other day. Of ltaly's seeking
TO force Turkish REIMBURSEMENT of
Tripoli and Cyrene by ravaging the Turk
ish coasts in Asia and Europe; but there
are obvious and weighty objections to
such a course.
Intervention is always delicate and
momentous operation. the Interior com
plications and ultimate consequences OF
which il is impossible 10 foresee and
might not be easy TO exaggerate. Par
ticularly formidable would ii he III Il
case like this. in which Il number of
Jealous powers are Interested. 1t IS
scarcely conceivable that such action by
any single power would be tolerated by
the rest Of Europe, and it is by 10 means
certain that concerted action by all of
them would he possible of arrangement.
Yet if the war; after being started rs it
was in utter disregard of the principles
of The Hague. were to he permitted to
drag OH year after year Il grave reproach
would rest upon the professions or the
participants i! the peace congresses.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-01
CHANGING THE poor MANS
COURT"

The bill introduced by Assemblyman
Colne of Kings County, and already re-
ported for passage, which amends the
law by giving the Municipal Court juris-
diction over actions involving sums up to
81 500, might not unreasonably be dc-
scribed as "an act to abolish the poor
mans court" At present the limit Is
$500. Actions in this city involving
sums larger than that must be brought
in the City Court or the Supreme Court
When the Municipal Court was estab-
Iisbed the limit on the amount involved
i'm litigation to be considered by 1t was
fixed at $500. The institution was
MANNED so that when the plain, average
citizen had So or $50 In litigation the
suit need not be brought in court where
actions involving hundreds or thousands
of dollars were being tried and where
long delays were involved. Some law
yers having q Municipal Court practice
may wish to bring their larger cases
TO trial in the courts and under the pro-
cedure with which they are most IA
milIar rather than to bring those actions
In the City or the Supreme Court Tne
iudges Of the Municipal Court may also
wish 10 increase the jurisdiction Of that
court, and, in sense. its dignity by
putting il more nearly on the plane OF
the City Court. But any step In this
direction is almost certain to interfere
with the efficiency Of the Municipal
Court i'm the work for which IT was pri-
marily established. If its calendars are
loaded with larger cases those same de-
laws. now familiar In other courts. are
likely 10 occur which ia the settlement
of O small claim amount practically TO a
denial of Justice. Moreover, judges with
the best intentions, If burdeBed with
cases involving larger sums, are likely
10 be impressed with the responsibility
of dealing with them, to the neglect Of
as careful attention to litigation SEEM
ingly Of less moment.
The plan for changing the Municipal
Court first contemplated an Increase OF
salaries for the judges. making them
equal 10 those In the City Court, as well
as the broadening Of its jurisdiction. The
salary part Of the plan was abandoned
but If the responsibility Of the court Is
Increased it will not be long before the
salary increase comes. The present
measure merely contemplates making
two bites of the cherry. A bill frankly
New-York tribune., 1912-03-01
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.

From The Tribune BuFtdul
washington, Feb. z9.-The President re-
maIned in HIS private study the entire day
working on his mail. The rush OF pu1-
ness at the executive cfiices has been ire
mendous recently, Mr.. Taft getting iittio
time TO devote to his mall because or the
unusually largo number OF callers. In ao-
dition 20 this. each mall has fe1riy
swamped the President. his secretaries ana
the office force. Secretary Iiilles also re-
mained away from the executive off1ces TO-
day. to catch up with business, which has
accumulated faster than he could take care
Of It.
The White House denied the report that
Vice President Sherman had been selected
as Mr. Tafts running mate. saying that
the President and Mr.. Sherman hal not
discussed the subject. that no Cabinet ON
Ger had furnished such information. ana
that william Barnes, jr.. did not mention
Mr.. Sherman's name nor discuss the vice.
Presidency with the President.
President Taft was much amused at the
heading of a letter he received to-day ITO
Western Justice of the peace, who wro g
about political c. nd.tions In his att. IL
read: "Will baptize you, marry you' jail
you or bury you while you walt
Political letters reaching the White House
show that a large number OF persons nave
changed from Roosevelt to TAFT stree the
coloners Columbus speech and third-term
announcement.
In a special message to-day President
Taft urged that an officer of the coast ar
tilcry corps be permitted TO serve as an
instructor in the army of Chill, pursuant
to request of that South American re-
public.
Commenting on the report that re"r-
ganization OF the Department OF Agricult-
urc would be undertaken in short time
and that Dr. Wiley would leave the gov
ernment service, Secretary Wilson sal
that. as far as he knew, there would De
no change and that Or. Wiley would not
leave the service.
Among the White House callers were the
ce-Presdent, the Secretary Of War. the
Secretary of the Navy, Senator'S Root ana
Wetmore, Representatives Miller. Nye, Da-
wilson and Curry and ex-Delegate Cam
eron, OF Arizona.
Major Archibald W. Butt, military ald
TO the President, has obtained one month
and twenty-foCr days sick leave. He VIII
sail from New York on Saturday for the
Mediterranean.
Jules Rossnwald. of Chicago, who was
the guest OF the President overnight left
here to-day for New York.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-01
LEGAL AID SOCIETY MEETS
Handled $500 Gases in 1911
and Spent S43,114 SO.

The annual meeting Of the Legal Aid SO
ciety was held at the Offices of the pTes''
dent, Arthur Won BrIesen. No. - Brosu
street. Yesterday afternoon. The reports ot
tho president. The secretary and the at
'o,ney were submitted. Nineteen new as
eoclate members we're admitted TO the So
ciety. including Otto T. Barnard. Frederick
q. Bourne. Thomas ~ Buckner, NicIolas
Murray Butler Haley Fiske and Edgar l..
Marston. Members OF the board or direc-
tors. to serve until 1913. who were electe1
Yesterday were =. Augustus Johnson. Carl
l.. Schurz, Charles f. Wiebusch and LOUIS
Windmjiller Manfred w Enrich and LOUIS
l.. Seaman we're elected % MI yacanes on
the board.
Ia his report for the year Mr. Won Brieseh
spoke briefly concerning the work the so
ciety had done. mentioning the sueceSsinl
opposition 10 the sullivan bill when pro
vidod for the election Of judges and mag
istrates by districts. laws enacted through
the efforts of the society for the better pro
lection Of sailors. the lessening OF the eVils
resulting from instalment purchases ana I've
reduction Of the injurious effects cIeate'
by loan sharks. The number OF cases
brought TO the attorneys Office during the
year was SO, 500. an increase OF about i4,Voo
over the year before. The report OF ths
treasurer showed the expenditures for lsll
were S43,ll4S5.
At meeting OF the board OF director
held at the end OF the business meeting
the following officers were re-elected
President. Arthur Won Brlesen. yice-presi-
dent. Carl l.. SchurZ; treasurer, LOUIS
Windmuller, and secretary. Cornelius +.
Kitchel. The name of Mrs. Il. Fairfield
Osborn was added to the list OF honorary
yice-presidents.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-01
MARRIAGE FACILITIES ~ NEW
JERSEY.

The enactment of the bill for depriv-
ing New Jersey justices of the peace or
the power To perform marriage ceremo-
uies was effected with n promptness ana
unanimity which probably surprised even
its most earnest advocates. The incident
is symptomatic Of the popular disgust
which has long been felt nj the abuse or
this power, especially in Jersey City,
Hoboken and Camden. 1t has not been
edifying TO see justices of the peace pub
licly competing by means of all sorts OF
advertising dodges for the business OF
marrying couples whose Unions were OF
such dubious propriety as to invite haste
and concealment. All has been grist that
came TO those marriage mills.
With the radical correction Of such
abuses we heartily sympathize, or should
# the measure which has just gone into
Eject assured II. But there is reason
10 fear that the new law has merely
shifted the evil to another quarter while
imposing n hardship on large NUMBER
Of entirely well disposed people In the
very cities In which the wrongs done by
New-York tribune., 1912-03-01
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.
tryon The Tribune Bureau. ]


w.sb,ncton. Feb 29-The French AM
bassador and Nine. Jusserand were enter
tsined at dinner tonight by Mr.. and Mrs
Theodore Marburg, Of Baltimore. Inc!
were Mrs. Marburgs guests at the opera
tonight.
The British Ambassador was the guest OF
honor at a meeting OF the Washington
Board of Trade tonight.
The German Ambassador and Countess
Won Bernstorff will be the guests OF MI
and Mrs. Cyrus Mccormick at dinner IN
Chicago on March %, et which timo the
ambassador will officiate at the laying OF
the cornerstone of the German Hospital.
Tine counsellor of the German Embassy
and Nine. Haniel Won HaimhaLsen enter
tanned dinner party Of fifteen to-nighL
afterward taking their guests TO the CO.
tIlon given by Miss Cameron.
The German military attache and Frau
Won Herwarth entertained Brigadier Cen
eral and Mrs Wotherspoon, who VIII leave
'.,ra soon for their new post IN the South'
luncheon to-day. Their other guests
were the Austrian counsellor ana NINE
vop I,oewenthal-Linau the French naval
attache and Viscountess d Azy, the German
second secretary and Nine. kenln' MI
and Mrs. Coolidge, Miss Lippitt ana Lieu
tenant Won Herwarth.
cantain Baron f. Preuschen yon und zu
Iiebenstein, the Austrian naval attache'
has returned from long visit 10 Ne"
York
The German naval attache, Captain Retz-
mann. will return to sea duty when MS
successor arrives in this country. in MarcA.
CAPTAIN sowerby, British naval attache'
will also return to sea duty, leaving here
for his new post in the early future.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-01
Pecple and Social Incidents

Melville B. ingalls,. preceding the dance a.
Miss cameron's.
One OF the Iiveliest and most charrninp,v
arranged leap year cotillons Of the seaso,
was given tonight by Miss Cameron for
Miss Kitty Cameron. both OF whom ara
here for the spring season. Miss Taft and
her cousin, Miss Anderson. were among taa
thirty couples, the other guests includln.
the younger members Of the diplomatic
corps and society in general. Mr.. de Bach.
Russian second secretary. led the cotillon.
There were six figures, several OF which
We're new and funny. The favors for tba
latter were drums. bugles and funny toys
while those for the other figures included
variegated chiffon scarfs. desk iurnishinxs
etc. James Byrnes, Of New York. who haS
played 'ragtime" and other music for the
Monday Night Dancing Class at the Play.
house, furnished the music tonight.
Mrs. Sherman has returned from Utica
and brought with her the Misses Baker.
who will be her guests for some time.
Glst Blair entertained a number OF guests
at dinner tonight. and among other hosts
of the day were Mr.. and Mrs. John z.
wilkins, who entertained at dinner. and
MRS. Robert Mccormick, who entertalned
at luncheon.
Miss Kathleen Berestord, OF England,
who has been staying with Mss Wood at
the home Of Colonel and Mrs. Robert
Thompson for several weeks, will sail for
England on March 9. Size was the guest Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen Pell in New York
for part of the winter.
Miss Caryl Crawford is the guest OF Miss
Molly Elliot Seawell for the spring season.
The Assistant Secretary OF State and Mrs
Huntington Wilson have returned fr0m
Baltimore. where they went to attend ths
funeral OF Mrs Wilson's father.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-01

the justices have been most fiagraht
there are various more or less notorious
marrying parsons" who are authorlzed
to perform marriages by virtue or their
status as ministers of some church de-
nomination, though perhaps without pull
pits. and who are fully as careless, not
TO say INSCRIPTIONS. as any OF the dis-
credited justices. We expect to see their
patronage largely increased in response
TO the sensational and suggestive bids
which they are publicly making for the
reversion of the justices' trade.
There would seem, moreover, to be Il
real hardship in depriving the public or
facilities for civil marriages. In the
cities and large towns IL will he possible
for couples to 90 before the mayors or
Judges Of courts of record, though even
this will at times be inconvenient. But
there are many smaller communities III
which there are no mayors or judges
and none within many miles. Yet they
may contain many couples VINO are en-
titled TO be married and who wish for
a purely civil ceremony. They will now
be placed in IN awkward predicament
and sometimes put TO Inconvenience and
pyDeusn. That is not desirable or an
inevitable accompaniment Of the correc-
ton of abuses of the marrying power
II would surely he possible for the Legis-
laturc to provide some scheme for the
faciitatlon of legitimate civil marriages.
If. indeed. it WAS not possible To correct
abuses without entirely abolishing IN old
and useful system.