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The Washington herald., 1912-06-12
PRESIDENT ALONE
CAN SAVE COURT
Senate Action Nay End Existence
Of Commerce Body
Here,

The United States Commerce Court will
be wiped out OF existence unless It is
saved by President Taft's veto. The
President In order to save the court
will have to withhold his signature from
the big legislative, executive, and judicial
appropriation bill, carrying millions Of
dollars for the running expenses OF the
government.
The abolition Of the court 80 far as
the legislative branch Of the government
is concerned was secured yesterday when
the Senate by a vote OF IS TO . sustained
the provision inserted into the money
measure by the House, wiping the court
out Of existence.
Congress has not yet decided what
shall be done with the five judges who
were appointed IN this court by Presi-
dent Taft two years ago. Under the
law creating the court the members Of
II were made Circuit Court judges ap-
poInted for life. The House provision
abolishing the Commerce Court proposes
that no more United States Circuit
judges shall be appointed until the total
number Is reduced from 81 TO ., the num-
Der in existence before the creation Of
the Commerce Court. Strong opposition
to this provision developed In the Senate
and when adjournment was taken late
yesterday afternoon the question OF the
continued existence Of these five Circuit
Court judges was still hanging in the
balance. The Senate will continue TO
consider this phase OF the legislation to-
day.
The Democrats voted almost solidly
against the retention OF the court. Sen
ator Thornton OF Louisiana being the
only one who favored its continued ex-
istence. Nine progressive Republicans
voted for the abolition OF the court.
The action Of the Senate on the Com
merce Court adds another angle to a
situation that is fast assuming a serious
aspect. The President will now be con-
fronted by two big money measures
carrying important special legislation,
and there is a possibility that he may
veto both OF them. In that event, Con-
gress is likely TO be IN session until
close to September /. The second money
bill containing legislation Objectionable 10
the administration Is the army appro-
priation bill passed Monday which practi-
caIly legislates Mai. Gen. Wood out Of
office as chief OF stan. The legislative
and executive appropriation bill, which
provides for the abolishment OF the Com
merce Court, supplies the money not only
for the Presidents salary, but for the
salaries and mileage OF members Of Con-
gress. II the President should veto this
measure the action would be almost un-
precedented.
The Washington herald., 1912-06-12
FINLEY
TO MAKE ADDRESS
Railway Surgeons, in Session Here,
Received at the White
House.

W. W. Finley. president Of the South
ern Railway. will deliver an address this
morning to the seventeenth annual meet
ing OF the Association OF Surgeons Of
the Southern Railway. which opened its
sessions at the New Willard yesterday
morning. After President F!nley's ad-
dress an informal reception will be held.
Col W. A. Henderson, general solicitor
OF the Southern and allied lines, will
speak on The Damage Doctor" this
afternoon. The discussions at to-day's
and to-morrow's meetings, according to
Dr. W. A Applegate, chief surgeon Of
the lines, will be confined entirely to
railway injuries.
Business meetings will be held this
morning. this afternoon and tonight.
Tomorrow will be devoted to sight
seeing.
President Taft received the members
their wives and families at the White
House yesterday afternoon.
The officers Of the association are:
President. Dr. John H. Mitchell. OF
Mount Vernon. Ill; first vice president,
Dr. r. L. Gibbon, Charlotte, n. c.; sec
ond vice president, DR.. R. T. Ramsey.
Elba, Va; third vice president. DR.. F.
A. Webb, Calvert. Ala; fourth vice
president. DR.. W. r Mckinley, Column
bus. Miss; historian, DR.. George Ross.
Richmond, Va, and secretary treasurer.
DR.. ]. L. Ray, Woodstock. Ala.
The Washington herald., 1912-06-12
PedIrree of the Horse.

Biologists have finally completed a
distinguished genealogy for the horse.
Here is the list, with the geological eraS
In which each lived. as arranged by Prof.
W. n. Rice:
The line of descent begins with Hyra-
cotherium and Eohippus OF the lower
Eocene age. Then follow Protorohippus
and Orohippus OF the middle Eocene,
EpIhippus OF the upper Eocene, Meso-
hippus OF the Ongocene- Anchitherium
OF the lower Diocene, Parahippus, Proto-
hippus and Pliohippus OF the middle and
upper Miocene, and finally Equus OF the
Pliocene and the QuaternaTy, from which
the modern horse directly descends.
Hipparion and Hippridium represented
ancient side branches that died without
descendants,
The Washington herald., 1912-06-12
GOSSIP HEARD
IN THE CAPITALS OF EUROPE

these two sisters should be so charming
since their mother. the Grand Duchess
Anasatasia, Of Mecklenburg-Schweri
born Romanoh, in her day was one
OF the most delicioUsly graceful women
OF the court OF St Petersburg. Often It
has been claimed that the beautiful An
astasia has been rather wicked in her
youth. some others say she was only
gay witty, amusing. and sparkling.
But she had other moods, too, as for in
stance that morning when she broke a
thousand rubles' worth OF fine china be-
fore breakfast just 20 Try her nerves
and occupy her fists
The new Queen Of Denmark Is a
great helpmeet to her husband, a coun-
selOr, and whatever serious problems
Will confront him he is sure to dis
cUss them first OF all with her. for he
believes strongly in her sagacity.
There is one main difficulty awaiting
the new monarch. the question OF po-
itical friendship with either Germany
or England His late father. Friedrich
VIII, belonged to a generation that still
bitterly remembers the invasion OF Dem
mark in 1854. and what resulted there
from; while the fact that King Chris
tian's brother, King Haakon Of Norway,
Is married to a younger sister OF the
King Of England, and that the Crown
Prince OF Sweden has welded the daugh-
]
than likely to prove a serious obstacle
TO a project cherished by King Gustav OF
Sweden and the German Emperor-to
found a Scandinavian league against
Russia, France, and Great Britain.
A Russian mother-in-law, the impress
sions left by an anti-German father. and
a whole collection Of English relatives.
are not factors likely to bring about an
easy political solution in this regard
But since the new sovereign, like his
predecessors, practically controls the en-
trance to the Baltic, his task will prob
ably be shorn Of some OF its difficulties.
However. IL may be just as we'll to re-
member that Christians principal friend
and associate is, after all. his brother
ir-law, the German Crown Prince, which,
taken altogether, makes up a neat sort
OF mix-Up for the monarch ascending
the Danish throne
His grandfather. old King Charles TX.
tFe idol OF his people in spite Of his
well-known reactionary ideas, was an
ideal King in every possible sense OF
the word, and there are many who
think that his namesake Christian Y
resembles him in more than one way. II
this is the case his success Is assured,
especially II he has inherited from the
rather or European Royalty as Chris
tian IN was called. even a trifie OF that
power OF resolve which during the forty
years OF his reign prevented him from
setting his feet in Paris because he
could not bring himself to forget the
treatment he had experienced at the
hands Of France when. in 1888 and 1854
Napoleon III, after having encouraged
Denmark to resist the Austro-Prussian
coalition, not only left the gallant Danes
to face the subsequent fray alone, but
also discouraged the powers from coming
tO their assistance. FLANEUR
Copyright. 1917. by Court Gossip syndiatsl
The Washington herald., 1912-06-12
Indiana.

The modest request by Indianians for
$4,000 seats at the Republican National
Convention is but one way the Hoosier
politicians have to get there" We are
not at all surprised, for modesty never
has been a speciality with Indiana vot-
ers, no matter of what political per-
suasion. The pension rolls bear mute
evidence of it. The convention hall
proper will seat all told II,ISo persons,
delegates included, and 50 far State
Chairman Simms and Chairman New
have been in receipt of letters request
ing 1900 tickets with more demands
pouring in upon them hourly 1t is true
Indiana is "debatable" and the Hoosier
voter is a 'big" man at this juncture,
but really, now, few seats ought to be
reserved for the delegates themselves,
for the press, and for some men of
prominence in other States.
The decision of the National Com
mittee in the case of the four delegates
at large from that State, seating the
Taft claimants was unanimous, show
ing that even the Roosevelt adherents
in the National Committee were con-
WINGED that the delegates in the State
convention, the seating of whom formed
the basis of the contest, had been elect
ed at a primary at which majority in
favor of Taft had been recorded. The
Indiana situation had been the occa-
sion of loud complaint on the part
of Col. Roosevelt and he was seconded
by the defeated politicians who made
the most of his vigorous denunciation
of the fraudulent" manner in which
they had been beaten.
1t was the same thing in the South.
and as the emptiness of these contests
becomes apparent it may result in less
and less support of the contestants by
the Roosevelt members of the National
Committee.
The Washington herald., 1912-06-12
French Submarines.

When two years ago the French sub
marine Pluviose was sunk by a chan
mel steamer in the port of Calais with
the loss of all on board, marine au-
thorities agreed that the accident could
have been avoided by means of the sub
marine signal devices which are in
stalled on the vessels of other navies.
The loss last week of the submarine
Vendemiaire, off Cherbourg, which was
run down by a sister battleship during
sea maneuvers, again demonstrates the
absence of such signals in a most hor-
rible manner 1t was the sixth IA
tality to underwater fighting craft in
the French navy, disasters that are par
ticularly deplorable because of the need
less sacrifice of human lives due to
either carelessness, as in the case Of
the destruction of the Republique, or
the failure to provide adequate means Of
apprehending and avoiding danger, as
in the case of the other catastrophes.
The Pluviose like the Vendemisire,
rose to the surface directly under the
bows of the battleship ST. Louis, which
cut her down before her course could
be altered. We read in an article from
the pen of an eminent naval authority
that an accident of this kind is in
excusable, because with the use of the
submarine receiving apparatus the sound
made by the propellers or the paddle
wheels Of an approaching steamer can
be heard clearly several miles away,
or near at hand, and the direction of
the onooming danger correctly indicated
1t is said that these instruments are so
delicate and so impressionable that it
is an easy matter to judge approximate
" the distance and relative position of
other vessels.
Lack of suitable precaution has caused
the French losses and this places heavy
burden of proof upon the French navy
department.
The Washington herald., 1912-06-12
Cinemntographs in China.

From the London Gl0be.
Cinematograph exhibitions are popular
in China. They are Of three kinds-those
given in buildings specially erected for
the purpose or in other places adapted,
and the third class is itinerant. after the
manner Of the old strolling players. It
seems that the Celestial prefers scenes
from real life to the faxed pictures. Ger
man films are said to be the most popu-
lar. showing military maneuvers, battles
and street scenes. These pictJffes appeal
to the imagination Of the Chinese and
can forth expressions OF admiration.
Great interest is also shown in pictures
OF the Rheims aviation week and the
Paris floods Of 1910.
The Washington herald., 1912-06-12
The Platt Amendment and Cuba.

The situation in relation to Cuba at
the present moment is very much like
that Of fly which has alighted upon
'tanglefoot" paper in warm weather.
If the fly IS anxious to get away it must
take part of the ''tanglefoot' with it or
perish in the attempt.
There can be no mistaking the sig
aifcance Of events. First warships were
sent to the Caribbean; then United
States marines were landed and used
within the Cuban governments jurisdic-
ton to protect property from the dep
relations Of the insurgents, and now
an expeditionary force is being mobil-
lied. The legal right of the United
States to intervene is found in the
Platt amendment $50 called) which now
has a treaty basis and is also incorpo-
rated in the Cuban Constitution. 1t
says this:
The government of Cuba consents
that the United States may exercise the
right to intervene for the preservation
of Cuban independence, the maintenance
Of a government adequate for the pro-
lection of life. property, and individual
liberty, and for discharging the obi
cations with respect to Cuba imposed
by the treaty of Paris on the United
States, now to be assumed and under
taken by the government of Cuba"
Some say that the power of the Pres
ident TO act independently of Congress
in sending American military forces to
Cuba is not determined by this clause.
Others say tits. At any rate, in this case
there appears to be no conflict of pol
icy between Congress and the President
Intervention under the provision of the
Platt amendment would not mean that
this government would be obliged to
support the Gomez administration.
While intervention would be "for the
protection Of life, property, and indi-
vidual liberty" the United States gov
ernment may at the same time exercise
its judgment as to what Cuban admins
tration is adequate to the performance
of such q task If the Gomez govern
ment should be found inadequate" it
may have to go the way of the Palma
regime, which in 1906 was permitted to
expire, when Washington declined to
uphold it against the insurection then
led by the man who is now President
Of Cuba.
The statement that Americans have
had something to do with fomenting
trouble in Cuba we have reason to be-
The Washington herald., 1912-06-12
HALF-CENT PIECE ABsURDITY.
Plan in Response to No Demand
and Meets No Situation.

From the Chicago Examiner.
The vote in the House Of Representa-
tives for the coinage Of one-half cent
pieces will strike the thoughtful public
as pueriIe and antiqusted. It is in re-
sponse to no demand and is to meet no
situation. 1t is the least intelligent
piece Of legislation that the House has
passed. 1t is simply the return OF a
lous OF Chinese currency.
Cinnamon carry pounds Of copper
pieces with a hole in the center. and
when they go out to buy cents worth
of rats they hand the seller a long,
heavy string Of copper coins in payment
Is that what the American Congress
would bring US to in this age and coun-
tryI
Is our progress in currency reform to
be measured by a return to a system
which prevails only in China and Egypt
and among the beggars OF the Orient?
Surely the House must have been nap
ping or without thought when such a
foolish piece of legislation got through
All modern nations have grown out OF
rather than toward the attenuated divi-
sions Of coinage. The centime Is ban
l5uCu AANAA anu LLC
England, and the centisimo from Italy.
The smallest coin in France is the sou,
which is centimes, and the smallest
in modern England 3 the ha'Penny,
which is cent.
Why should America 20 backward
when all other progressive nations are
going forward?
What a.spectacle the average future
American will make with his pockets
bulging with copper and haggling with
tradesmen over the matter OF one-half
Of a copper cent?
And what an absurdity to suppose that
such farce in coinage could reduce the
high cost OF llvingi Would IL make
things any cheaper that q man has to
pay for them in two pieces OF copper
instead OF one?
Such legislation as this would have
been an excellent diversion on some Ist
OF April, but II Is worse than a waste
Of time in serious assemblies.
We trust the deliberate Senate will
promptly sit down upon the folly OF the
House.
The Washington herald., 1912-06-12
Nursing His GrudEe.

From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
A rural clergyman missed one Of his
parishioners several successive Sundays
from his place in church, and when he
met the absentee one day he said:
''Wel, William. haven't seen you at
church for some time"
NO, sir. I have reasons for stayin
away"
'Oh. you have! And what may your
reasons be? should like to explain them
away, II possible
well, sir. doubt you'll manage that
They are very decided objections The
first is that I don't believe in bein'
where one does all the speakin'; the
second is that don't believe in so much
singin' as We get in your church: the
reason Of all is that It was in your church
that I got my wife"'
The Washington herald., 1912-06-12

lieve is an attempt to throw the ahthori-
lies of the track and that the Nelson
resolution offered in the Senate is aimed
at the wrong parties. Here it IS:
Resolved, That the Committee on
Foreign Relations or a subcommittee
thereof is hereby authorized and direct
ed to inquire, investigate, ascertain, and
report whether any persons, associa-
tons, corporations, or other interests
IN the United States have heretofore
been or are now engaged in fomenting,
melting, encouraging. or financing re-
bellion, insurrection, or other fragrant
disorder in Cuba and Mexico against
the lawful organized governments of
those countries"
The Senator, as the saying is, may
be in the right church but in the wrong
pew. For what would It benefit the
sugar rehners, for instance, to create
trouble on the island when by doing
so they will have no sugar to refine? On
the other hand annexation of Cuba
would mean to the beet sugar men the
elimination of the import duty, result
ing in placing Cuban sugar on our mar
kets at half the cost of beet production,
while continued agitation, interfering
with the receipt of I,75o,ooo tons of cane
sugar annually from Cuba, would result
in enormous prices for beet as well as
cane sugars under the American flag.
Millions of American dollars are in
vested in Cuba. This makes it very
plain why the United States should
have a word to say as regards situa-
tons there and to make use of the pro-
visions of the Platt amendment.
The Washington herald., 1912-06-12
For Their Country.

There is no authentic record in his
tory of the terrible toll exacted of the
devotees of science, but from time i'm
memorial its victims have paid the pen
atty for delving into the unknown
To-day more than ever before the
world is searching for the unknown,
trying to overcome what heretofore have
been mysteries. That man will be vic
torious in the end there is little reason
to question; that future generations will
benefit is certainty, the same as we of
to-day are benefited by the experiments
of those who have given their lives
with the same purpose in view in the
years gone by.
A fearful price is being paid by those
who are venturing into almost unknown
realms; but gradually and surely mans
nerve and mans ingenuity are overcom-
ing all obstacles.
After the great object has been at
tanned and the mysteries of the air
solved, the long list of heroes who have
given their lives with that one object
in view will be practically forgotten.
Before they ventured on their dangerous
career they knew what they had to
face, they realized that one mistake, one
freak move of a treacherous current,
meant the end. Yet with that knowl-
edge they CALAMITY voyaged into the
unknown.
Lieut.. Hazelhurst and A. T. Welsh
are the latest victims of the Unsuitable
greed of monster science. They have
given their lives so that the country
would benefit Countless thousands
will mourn their untimely end. Thou
sands will seek their places. Other sad
accidents will occur, but in the end
human ingenuity will prevail.
Those who knew and loved the vic
tins of Tuesdays accident have the
melancholy satisfaction of knowing that
both men gave their lives in the in
terest OF science and did their share
in helping to perfect what is destined
to be a revolution in the transportation
problems of the age. The Herald, with
all Washington, deeply mourns' the sad
affair and trusts the government will
do whatever IS possible to homer the
memory of the dead and prevent a repe-
tition Of such heartrending accidents.
The Washington herald., 1912-06-12

end OF the hail. people $50 feet away in
the other end can hear II bounce. It Is
also proud Of its wholesale houses. It's
new and vast hotels its streets, which are
navigable in the cutters and 50 wide that
hurried people take taxicabs TO cross
them. its Alma club OF millionaires, its
mountain ranges. which edge up into the
outlying wards and supply free scenery
at all times OF the year, the great marble
homes OF its mining kings. It's territory
1000 miles square, of which Il is the
metropolis. and Mauds Adams. which the
city still regards as its principal export.
tory district.
The Washington herald., 1912-06-12
BATHS WELCOME TO MORSE.
Take Pride in Ice KinE
and shows Its Loyalty.

ana SHOWS It's Loyalty.
Prom the St. Louis Republic
The little town OF Bath. Me, takes
pride in being the birthplace Of Charles
w. Morse. It cherishes him as its most
distinguished son. So II has welcomed
him back home as one who had brought
fair honors to the house. Its citizens
in solid column, headed by the brass
hand, paraded before the Morse resi-
dence. They shouted Justify at his ap-
pearance. What though a court has
sent Charles w. Morse to a penitentiary7 2
Bath takes him back TO her bosom, not
forgivingly but exultantIy. There are
no long, sOrdid rows OF tenements in
Bath. The nights of Bath know no
gasping vigils. No father or mother
in Bath has seen a child burn TO death
in the flames Of a raging fever for want
Of a piece Of fee. They do not know
the stark wretchedness upon which an
ice trust levied its tolls. The good
people OF Bath do not know the tears
and sin. they cannot see the long train
OF little coffins and all the rest OF the
pitiable background Of the Ice Trust $
dividends.
The good people OF Bath have never
come into personal contact with frenzied
finance. Their bankers are their friends
and neighbors, Of the same homespun as
themselves. No Bath bank has been
looted to carry on the vast enterprises
Of its president New York Is far from
Bath. To Bath Mr.. Charles W. Morse
is still Charlie. His youthful escapades
are among the towns traditions Bath
recalls the first stories that reached
home Of the young mans business sue
cess. And Baths cup of pride spilled
over when a magazine article ElOrifed
its townsman as among the greatest Of
the commercial great and presented his
career as an inspiration TO American
youth. What came after. Bath loyalty
AZ nd resnlntnlr rnfIaas N hnlinrn
The Washington herald., 1912-06-12
RaiIroad Travel I'm ChIna.

From the Worlds Work.
In spite OF China's great size the total
mileage OF the railroads already built
within the eighteen provinces does not
exceed 200. This is only half Of the
railroad mileage OF Japan. a country that
is not larger than one OF the Chinese
provinces-Szechuen. The State OF ILL
nois, one-fourth the size Of Szechuen, has
five times as many railroads as the en-
tire China proper. It takes from thirty
to forty days to reach Chengtu from
Hankow. A candidate for the Presidency
Of China might require at least three
years for a campaign tour II he cared to
visit every important town in the coun-
try
The Washington herald., 1912-06-12
Black wolves Born in Captivity.

From the Anaconda Standard.
The population OF the Columbia gardens
zoo was increased by FIVE yesterday. A
quintet OF black wolves were born and
Bess. the mother. was the proudeest ami
NAL at the resort. Black wolves have
become a rarity during the last few
years.
Bess has a history. A few years ago
hunt was being made for female black
wolves. An Indian boy on the Crow res
ervation caught Bess in a trap in the
Big Horn Canyon. An Indian friend in
Billings wrote for him to the management
OF the gardens and received an offer OF
so for the animal. He accepted It. Since
that time Bess has shown scruples
against race suicide. and black wolves
are not uncommon at the gardens