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The Washington times., 1913-05-11
RAIL Way KEY MEN
MEET IN BAL T|MORE
TeIegraphers win Open Their
Annual. Convention With a
Public Reception.

BALTIMORE, Nd. May 11-From III
sections of the United States. Canada,
and Mexico delegates are arriving On
every train today to attend the con-
vention of the Order of Railroad Tele-
sraPhers, which begins here tomorrow
morning.
morning and afternoon for the next
week or ten days, win be held in Odd
Fellows Hall. Most of the delegates
are accompanied by their. families, and
1t is expected that by tomorrow nlosn-
ing there will be over 2.0oo visitors in
the city.
Program of Meetings.
Ar elaborate program has been ar
ranged for the entertainment of the
delegates and their families and frienis
On Monday. night public welcoming
reception will be held in Albaugh.s
Theater, at which Governor Colds
borough. Mayor Preston, Congressman
David j. Lewis, State Senator Blair
Lee, and prominent officials of the
union will speak.
On Tuesday night theater porty
will be given at the Maryland Theater
and on Thursday, when no sessions
will be held, the party VIII 90 to
Washington and Mt Vernon on a spe-
Cial Baltimore and Ohio train. A trip
down the Chesapeake Bay will take up
all Sunday afternoon,
On Monday afternoon, May 10. a
grand ball and luncheon win be given.
Cannot Deliver Address.
s. j. Konenkamp. who was to have
addressed the railroad telegraphers
tomorrow morning or behalf of the
Commercial Telegraphers' Union, Of
which he is president, wired from San
Francisco today to ]. w. Freeman, a
prominent member of the international
executive board of the C. T. U. A, of
this city, that, owing To the strike of
the wireless operators on the Pacific
coast, he will be unable to attend, and
delegated z. H. Trainer, president If
the Baltimore local, to represent him.
The Washington times., 1913-05-11
p N CHAUTAUQUA
ON SEVERN RIVER
Local Baptist Pastors Told Of
Proposition, But Baltimore
Men viii Push 1t.

Washington Baptist clergymen have
been approached in the past few days
with appeals to back movement for
a new Chautauqua at Winona Cliff, OF
the Severn river. about twenty miles
from here. Thus far none of the local
pastors has taken the proposition mp.
so Baltimore ministers and business
men plan to finance the proposition
alone.
The Chautauqua will be on larger
lines than any heretofore established
Four hundred and fifty acres of land
have been obtained. seventy acres OF
which will be apportioned among the
thirty-five subscribers of s2.00o each
Then the hackers will sell the remain
ing land for summer homes TO defray
the expenses of the movement.
The total cost will be 100000. A large
pavilion. hotel and amphitheater will be
constructed this summer. and courses
will be started soon.
The superintendent will be the Rev.
DR.. John Roach Straton, OF Baltimore.
who has resigned his pastorate on ac-
count of i'll health.
The location of the institution viii be
on a high bluff overlooking the Severn
rlver, about five miles from Annapolis.
1t is probable that some of the local
pastors will attend the courses given
especially for ministers in the month
OF August.
On the executive committee of the or
ganization are II. s. Dulaney. e b.
II. Maitbie. John S. Bridges and J. y.
Watkins
The Washington times., 1913-05-11
CONF F[RENCE T0SEEK
UNIFORM STANDARDS
Weights and Measures Officials
Will Hold Eighth Annual Ses.
sions in Capital.

A unification OF Quantative stand
ards, which now vary widely in Differ
ent parts of the country, will be the
chief aim Of the eighth annual confer
ence Of weights and measures, which
days sessions.
The meeting will be held at the Bu-
reau of Standards and the delegates
will be welcomed by Secretary of
Commerce William c. Redheld. Twen-
ty States will be represented.
State officials having charge Of
weights and measures departments,
cnty sealers from nearly all the large
cities in the country. and many pri-
vate citizens interested In the work
Of such departments will be in at
tendance.
Under the present laws thirty-two
as a bushel In Massachusetts, but 1t
takes forty pounds to make Michi-
gan bushel; forty-two pounds Of turs-
nips make q Wisconsin bushel. but in
the Dakotas the local weight for a
bushel Of this vegetable il sixty
pounds. Such conditions as these are
what the conference / saiming to cor
rect .and, tho ugh they have done much
there are still lmany discrepancies.
Even SO common q commodity as po-
tatoes il not standardized. as in Penn
sylvania fifty-six pounds make a legal
bushel. while in New York. New Jersey.
Ohio. Maryland. and West Virginia. all
neighboring States, the laws require
sixty pounds. The biggest discrepancy
10 in Stacked lime. which need weigh but
thirty-five pounds to the bushel in Ken.
lucky, but in many other States must
weigh eighty pounds.
The conference here also will urge
more stringent laws requiring commodi-
ties to be marked in such a way that
the purchaser will know what amount
he il getting for his money. The action
Of Congress in requiring the net weight,
measure. or numerical count to be
stated on the outside Of all packages
covered by the food and drugs act was
a direct result Of the efforts of those
connected with the conference.
The Washington times., 1913-05-11
OLD BERKELEY SPRINGS.

Tucked away in q picturesque nook in the West
Vrsnia mountains lies the ancient village of Berke-
ley Springs, just now on the qui vive because the
Vice President is to pay it a visit Time was, very
lcng while agone, when that would have been very
minor incident to Berkeley Springs Its wonderful
waters, IN the days when Washington was surveying
that part Of the American wilds, enjoyed repute for
Unsurpassed curative powers 1t was famed water
hg place century before Newport had become So
eieys circus ground; before Atlantic City was
freamed of, Hot Springs discovered, or Palm Beach
ven fitting material for the dreams Of railroad pro-
hotter. Berkeley Springs saw the bewigged and be-
powdered danes and gentry of colonial days do the
sinuet At least generation two before there was
Washington City 1t is now prosperous county
town. but its glory has departed chiefly because it
Nv where main line of railroad could not reach it.
The Washington times., 1913-05-11
MINOR CAMPAIGN COMMITTEES.

While the Democrats Of House, Senate, and
White House are worrying about the organization of
their Congressional campaign committee, it is good
time to recall that this organization mas been in the
past highly efficient instrument for doing things
in left-handed way that the national committee
could not very we'll do.
Reference is had rather to the Republican than
to the Democratic Congressional committee; but in
both parties these Congressional managerial commit
tees have served the purpose of holding up powerful
interests for campaign funds, in ways that often
scandalous in the extreme. 1t has certainly not yet
passed from memory, that when Joseph w. Babcock,
of Wisconsin, was head of the Republican Congress
sional campaign committee he introduced with great
eclat his famous-rather Infamous to put
steel and iron on the free list The real purpose of
the measure was perfectly understood in political
circles. 1t was strike bill; threat with which
to mold up rich interest for campaign funds. That
was good many years ago, when it was easier to
work such schemes than it is now. 1t has always
been understood that Babcock got what he wanted.
The men who constitute Congress ought to be the
last ones to form the personnel of campaign COM
mittee 1t is too easy to trade off influence for con-
tributons. 1t has been done too many times. Every
body with half an idea about the inside of political
methods in this town knows that
supervised by nobody in particular. Time and again
it has been a grim joke for a national committee
soemny to report its financial transactions while
this auxiliary committee told never word about
whence it got its money or where it was spent.
President Wilson has nigh-toned ideas about po-
ltica organization II he would study the history of
the Congressional campaign committees, and consider
how dangerous business it is to have the same men
making laws today, and tomorrow making promises
in consideration of campaign contributions, we i'm
agine he would agree with our notion that these
committees ought to be abolished entirely.
There is no need for such organizations. They
do nothing-tnat is, nothing that ought to be done
that the respective national committees could not do
as well or better They have always had bad smell
about them. They always will. A law to prohibit
such organizations would be in point, and it would
promote the uplif of political morality that every
body favors in the abstract and commonly forgets
when the concrete details of practical affairs demand
attention.
The Washington times., 1913-05-11

subsistence line than it costs woman but We douo'
it. Perhaps the minimum wage must make some
allowances for the hghbalIs and cigarettes he con-
sumes but the woman doesn't. 1t may be doubted
if any better reason could be given for dscrimna-
ton at the bottom of the scale Higher up of course,
mems and women's wages would be based, not on
consideration of the subsistence level but of their
actual accomplishments; their earning capacity
The Governments minimum wage would hardly
tend to drag down other cofpensations in its service
to the minimum basis and it would undoubtedly tend
to raise the minimum in private employment toward
the Government level In those ways it would be a
good thing with none Of the objections that may be
urged against the attempt to fix minimum wages in
general employment.
The Washington times., 1913-05-11
THE YOUNc-MDoNALD CONTEST.

In the Twelfth Michigan district last November
William ]. Mcdonald, Progressive, was elected to
conlfess by the voters. Because his name was in
correctly printed certain ballots the returning
efficers threw out sufficient number of the votes
east for him to leave bare majority in favor of
n. Oin Young, Republican. Young was given the
certificate, took the seat despite protest, and was
promptly contested by Mcdonald.
Young has now resigned his seat. In doing so
De made statement to the House. admitting that
he voters intended to elect Mcdonald.
Il But when asked if he intended, in resigning to
}elinquish the contest and concede the title of Nc
Donald 10 the seat, Mr.. Young said he did not he
(onsidered that another election was necessary to
Settle the legal question involved
n II is quite impossible to believe that the House
will accept that view, and accept the Young resgna-
6on as ending the contest If one man owns piece
Of property and another falsely claims it, is the right
fal owner to be forever dispossessed because the
bogus claimant gives quit-claim deed?
The House can in decency, equity, and conscience
DO nothing less than hear the contest of Mcdonald
against Young and decide it, just as if Young had
rot resigned. If then Young should be neld to have
been elected, his resignation could be accepted if
n6t the seat should be given to Mcdonald.
VI 1t is rather a coarse proceeding, this of trying
b euchre Mcdonald out of seat which he would
Be certain to get if there interference with
6ue legal process Neither the Democrats nor the
shndpat Republicans can afford to engage in that
sort of chicaney. 1t is quite possible that if new
election were ordered now, Mcdonald would be de-
feated but stealing seat is hardly justable in the
circumstances surrounding this Congress.
q The Progressive party in Michigan would be a
good deal stronger if this steal should be perpetrated
The case is understood throughout the State. To
teal the seat would simply make the Democratic
majority guilty of the sort of outrage that
perpetated by the corrupt old Taft machine during
and before the Chicago convention of last year. 1t
is unfhnkabie that the Democratic leadership will
make their organization and their big majority a
catspaw to pull that sort of cestnus out of the fire
for the standpat Republicans.
The Washington times., 1913-05-11
SAYS MEXICO WANTS
j. S..ENGL|SH WAR
Jose vasconceIos Intimates
That Huerta Is Assisted in
Plot by Lord Cowdray.
Continued from First Page.)

has become absolutely necessary for
him to take whatever measures his des-
perate plight dictate: and so he has
made the fearful mistake of threaten
ing the United States that IL 1t doesn't
recognize him he will be unable to rec
ognize its AMBASSADOR except in routine
and very urgent matters.
That has merely served to sr.ake the
United States wary, and has cost
Huerta the friendship of the American
ambassador, who was his most useful
friend"
The Huerta regime Is continuing ex-
treme measures Of repression. MI, Vas,
concelos declared: and he mentioned
that he had to escape from the country
with a good deal Of care and caution,
coming here via Havana and Key West.
Ninety per cent Of the people in the
republic are opposed TO Huerta." he de-
that is the case HIS fearful treachery
and the murders by which he attained
the Presidency. for which he had long
been intriguing, turne dthe people al
most solidly against him.
Stands for Graft.
"Huerta stands for all the corruption,
grating and plunder!ng methods that
have served so well the big interests
that are exploiting Mexico. In the
period preliminary to the seizure of
power by him. a great English interest
which holds vast concessions in the
country was most active in contributing
toward the success Of the plot, right
down to the events that ended in the
assassinations. Huerta controls the
capital district because he is keeping
1000 troops there out of about 16.o0O
men in the federal uniform. He domI-
mates the congress merely because he
keeps its members under guard, to pre-
vent them fleeing 70 Carranza's camp to
hold their sessions. He dominates the
supreme court because its members fear
for their lives.
"The people look upon Carranza as
the Cromwell of Mexico. Felix Diaz
has no following worth mentioning;
those who are supporting him are
what I believe you Americans call
mollycoddles-isn't that itC The de
la Barra supporters are for peace at
any price. The Diaz and de la Barra
crowds will be getting out of the
country very soon for safer regions,
and the collapse Of the Huerta gov
ernment will come at almost any
time"
The Washington times., 1913-05-11
THE CHICAGO CONFERENCE.

Those Republicans who are gathered in Chicago
talk about possible plans for the rehabilitation oi
their party represent broadly, the element that stuck
by the organization and nominations last year under
protest, or that declined to stick at all. Probably
more than half the Republicans VINO on election day
voted for Mr. Taft would have preferred if some
other man had been their partys candidate. 1t is
reasonably apparent now, that the Republican party
could have elected some other man than Taft last
year, if it could have nominated him. II might have
won with Roosevelt, or with any one of several
others; but not with Taft
The progressive element of the party is trying to
convince the reactionay element, which today con-
trolls the organization, that it is worth while to turn
the organization over to the progressive crowd and
give them chance to try getting the party together
once more. The standpatters might be willing to do
this but for their hope that Democratic policies will
presently bring industrial misfortune to the country
and in the revulsion of feeling incident thereto they
hope the country will swing clear back to the ex-
tremest standpat doctrines, and 60 Republican with
the most conservative Republican doctrines acclaimed
as the purpose of the new regime.
Sol is really waiting game on the part of the
standpatters. They don't want to give up their grip
SO long there is still possibility that the countrys
misfortune will be their good fortune and vindica-
ton. Ii the panic doesn't materialize, it business
continues good enough to keep the country in amiable
humor, if good crops and foreign trade produce
enough buoyancy to Offset, reasonably, the depress-
ing effects of tariff revision, then the reactonary
Republicans viii have lost their chance, and there
will be nothing for them to do but turn over the
parys control to the progressive element, else
60 it alone and meet another sweeping defeat
But the progressive faction of Republicans is un-
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any good result from the amalgamaton of the various
elements that were formerly Republican and that are
still Democratic those results must be achieved
through early action; through immediate application
to the big business of reorganization, amalgamation
and planning for the future. Somehow or other,
there must be effective accomplishment, in the direc
ton of this junction of forces, before the Con-
gressional election of 1914 or else the Democrats
will once more confront sharply divided opposition
and win another victory that will be anything ex-
cept real popular Endorsement
The Washington times., 1913-05-11
English Ambassador
Sees Cricketers PLAY

Ambassador Sir Cecil Spring-Rice this
afternoon went to Rock Creek Park
to watch members of the Washington
Cricket Club bowl a few wickets. The
ambassador is an honorary member of
the organization, and was once himself
an ardent cricketcr. Nowadays base
ball shares his allegiance. and as soon
as the Nationals are back home Sir
Cecil will vie with President Wilson in
regularity of attendance.
However, for the time being. cricket
is a good enough game to watch, and
Sir Cecil was moved, II is reported. to
shout well Played" or We'll caughtn'
several times during the practice today
and yesterday. when he was also a
spectator.
Lady Spring Rice is expected here to
join her husband in a short time.
The Washington times., 1913-05-11
Railroads Will Ship
No Liquor Into Maine

BANGOR. Me. May 1l.-Maine liquor
dealers have been notified by the rail-
road companies that no more liquor in
tended for sale will be brought into the
State by rail. the transportation COM
panies desiring to live up to the pro-
visions Of the Webb law. The steam
ship companies have not as yet declared
an embargo. but similar notification
from them Is expected
II is altogether likely that the liquor
men will now turn to the coaster to
save the day
The Washington times., 1913-05-11
Moore's Name Erased
By Weather Bureau

Not content with having exercised
a sort of recall on Willis Moore, de-
posed chief of the Weather Bureau. the
Government is busy recalling the
weather forecast cardholders on which
the name of Mr.. Moore appeared.
New holders Of tin. with pocket in
front to hold the card on which the
forecast is printed, are now In the
hands Of thousands Of recipients of
the daily forecast.
please use." says an inclosed notice.
the cardholders herewith in place Of
the one now in use and return the old
cardholder in the inclosed addressed en-
yelope. which requires no postage.
The words willis Moore. Chief y
which appear on the old holders in the
third line. do not appear on the new
ones. The third line is vacant.
The Washington times., 1913-05-11
Snail Racing Excites
Passengers on Liner

NEW YORK, May u.-Snail racing
Is an innovation IN the m!d-Atlantic,
where there are 10 ahu-nettinS Ha"s'
and judging from the eXcitemeh' at
tending a race staged on the prone
nade icck of a French steamer which
has lust arrived here. the sport Is Ike
ly to prove popular
gestcd the snail race. A half dozen
snaiIs of the edible variety, some three
inches long. were obtained from the
ships steward and placed upon a sheet
of white paper on the promenade deck;
a head of lettuc" was set rs Soa'
to encourage the racers.
TIL. distance over the track was
eighteen inches. When the first race
was run on Wednesday aftefnl on
the winnin. snail covered the course
IN Q tribe over three hourA
The Washington times., 1913-05-11
Smithsonian Expert
Awarded $400 Prize

A $500 prize has been awarded DR..
John r. Swanton. ethnologist in the
Bureau OF American Ethnology. Smith
sonion Institution. who wins the money
and the honor by two books. 'Tlingit
Myths and Texts and INDIAN Tribes
of the Lower Mississippi Valley and Ad-
iacent Coasts of the Gulf Of Mexico"
DIR. Swanton's prize is known as the
Loubat Prixe. founded by the Due de
Loubat to encourage research In eth
nology. archaeology, and philosophy In
North America. II Is awarded once in
five years.
The Washington times., 1913-05-11
CaIitornians to Hear
Talk on Golden West

An illustrated lecture on The Golden
West Will be given before the Cali
fornia State Association by Frank II.
Poston at the First Congregational
Church, Tenth and G streets northwest.
on the evening of May Is. The re-
sources OF the Pacific slope. both devcl-
oped and awaiting exploitation. will be
pictured and explained,
Aaresses by congressman and others
ghue, president of the associa.ion. will
Drecsds the lecture.
The Washington times., 1913-05-11
Department Completes
Records of Revolution

Tue Way Department has practically
completed the collection of military rec
ords of the American Revolution, after
years of rrseHrch. The history os every
organization and individual soldier Cn-
gagged ON the American side forms a
part % the record,
Patriotic societies are expected tS take
the initiative In arranging for the pub
location Of these records,
The Washington times., 1913-05-11
Naval Constructor to
Aid Aeronautics Course

Lieut.. j. G. Hunsaker, naval conctruc-
tor, probably will be detailed to go to
the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology to aid in outlining Il course OF
study of aeronautics, with lectures ash
laboratory work.
Technical colleges all over the cots
try are said to be taking an interest i'm
aeronautics, and the War ana Navy
Departments are said 10 be preparing,
TO detail officers to assist ir outlining
uniform courses of Study.
The Washington times., 1913-05-11
Tried to Wreck Trains
ITO See Excitement

READING. Mass. May lion a
charge Of attempting to wreck Boston
and Maine railroad trains by placing
obstacles on the tracks. Fred |. Turner.
aged twenty-three. Of Reading. was ar
rested today According to the police.
Turner has confessed to several at
tempts at train wrecking. saying that
his object was TO see the excitement"
In nearly all cases logs were placed on
the rails or fishpIates in switches.
The Washington times., 1913-05-11
Irish-American Union
Will Honor Irish Dead

The Irish-American Union has m@de
plans to decorate the graves Of dis
tinguished members of the Irish ,ace
in Mt. Olivet Cemetery at 9 o'clock of
the afternoon of May 30. The commit se
in charge will be ]. Frank O'MeIra-
chairman; James Myers, vice cha!--
man: p. j. Haltigan. P. T. Moran. ). u.
O'Connor. Arthur Small. and !. ]. Sui
Ivan
A number of prominent spssSe 3 viii
give memorial addresses.
The Washington times., 1913-05-11
San Francisco Firm
Gets Radio Contract

The contract FOR the erection OF
high power radio station at the Unit
cd states naval reservation at Catmito,
In the canal Zone. has been awarded 70
the Federal Telegraph Company. OF San
francisco The contract price on She
s,ee, towers was s.2,s,NSi aad on The
wireless equipment Ss.Sai.Sl