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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-07-03
WELSH EISTEDDFOD
OPENS In PITTSBURG
Fifty thousand Visitors Attend Inter-
national Musical Meeting-Gor-
sedd Is Held,

Pittsburg. July With nearly $1,000
visitors in attendance. the International
Eisteddfod was opened this afternoon in
Exposition Hall to continue until Sat
urday. Opening the Eisteddfod program
the Gorsedd was held. The Gorsedd was
established to develop musical, poetical,
and artistic genius.
DIR. r. c. Morgan. of Pittsburg. acted
as master of ceremonies. Following the
call of the trumpet and the assembling
of bards and druids, the Rev. Evan
Rees, of Wales. made his opening ad-
dress. He was followed by Prof. Daniel
PrOtheree, of Chicago, who sang the
Welsh anthem in Gaelic. the language in
which the ceremonies of the Gorsedd
We're given.
In order to become a bard of the Cor
sedd the applicant must be able to write
twenty-four meter, 500 line poem. and
must meet with the Gorsedd examining
boards approval before the applicant
may be taken into the sacred circle.
Among the honorary members of the
bards of the Gorsedd are Emperor Will
lam of Germany. King George of Eng
land, and many high officials of other
countries.
Among the visitors who arrived with
the Baltimore and Washington delega-
lions this morning was the Rev. DR.. J.
Wynne Jones. Of Baltimore. who last
year was the grand chaplain of the
Grand Army of the Republic.
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its history. Both chambers, of Con-
gress number among their rules for
seif-government one which forbids the
attachment of new legislation to appro-
priation acts. Both disregard it with
frequency which keeps some scandal,
large or small, constantly on the politi-
cal horizon. A rider usually has its
origin behind the closed doors of the
committee room, where an appropria-
ton bill is under consideration, and
its authors take their chances OF hav-
ing it thrown out on the floor, which
can be done by individual objection,
supported by a perfunctory ruling
from the chair.
Beyond question the promoters OF
this policy have canvassed their ground
before proceeding and satisfied them
selves that they can look for. an at
frmative vote on their rule. This will
require only bare majority, and then
the attachment of their rider to a
deficiency appropriation bill presented
at the beginning of new fiscal year
will obtain for it not only TIE right of
way, always accorded supply bill, but
the special privilege enjoyed by one
whose function is to make good the
shortcomings discovered in appropria-
tions already voted and liable to BE
put under draft.
Here looms up the Presidents op-
portunity. He cannot claim to have
been taken unawares. and it is to be
presumed that, on a matter of such
consequence as this, he has given no
pledges No issue likely to arise in
the next four years will be more
sharply defined than this, if the pres
ent plans of the leaders succeed. Either
the President believes in government
by rider, or he does not. That is the
crux of the question-not the existence
or nonexistence of Commerce Court.
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ANOTHER REVOLUTION
LAUNCHED AGAINST HUERTA

Mexico City. July Another revo-
lution-the thirty-nintth against the Mexi-
can government since the regime of
Portfirio Diaz-was launched today in
the State of Jalisco by Luis N. Rojas.
the member of the Chamber Of Deputies
who appealed to President Taft TO inter-
vene because of the assassination Of
President Madero.
The important port of Tampico is
reported by the newspaper at Ell
Diario to- have been captured by in
surgents. The report could not be
verified. as the rebels had cut the tele-
graph wires leading to Tampico.
Ell Pals. a newspaper friendly to the
government. published the report to-
day that President Huerta will resign
and take command of the army for a
campaign against the Carranza rebels
in the north.
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Ry O. H. STEWART.

Gettysburg. Pa, July odd Confeder-
ate veterans whs fought under Long
street became indignant today when they
learned that Mrs. Pickett, widow of Gen.
Pickett, and Mrs. John A. Logan. both
of Washington, had oeen invited by the
State of Pennsylvania to be its guests at
the golden anniversary celebration Of the
battle of Gettysburg, and Mrs. Long
street had been entirely ignored. This in
dignation was increased by the fact that
Mrs. Logan and several members of her
family had been especially invited by
Gov. Tener of Pennsylvania and were
offered elaborate quarters in Pennsyl-
vania Seminary, where the special guest
camp has been established. Gen. Logan.
of course, was not at Gettysburg, he
having been at that time storming the
trenches around Vicksburg. Mrs. Logan
had accepted for herself and daughter.
Mrs Tucker, and they would have come
with a party of friends had Mrs. Logan
not been taken i'll. Mrs. Pickett, IL de-
velops, did not receive her invitation I'M
til she had entered upon an extensive
lecture engagement before chatauquas
in the West.
Mrs. Longstreet, who recently was
removed by President Wilson from her
postoffice in Georgia, remained in
Washington after making her protest
before the postoffice committee of the
House, and arranged to attend the re-
union. The expected invitation did not
arrive, so she wrote the War Depart
'ment, asking for tent for herself and
a party of friends. The War Depart
ment only has jurisdiction over the
camp. and was unable. under author
ity Of law and the regulations, to pro-
vide for any woman in the camp. Then
she wrote TO the Governor Of Pennsyl-
vanis, the Pennsylvania Gettysburg
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The Commerce Court Issue.

The administration is going slower
on the scheme of some of the Demo-
cratic leaders to legislate the Com
merce Court out of existence. When
he came into office, President Wilson
shared much of the prejudice against
this court which existed in certain
quarters. He now admits that the
question of its continuance has two
sides TO it. and he has signed the requi-
sition for another years appropriation
and cautioned the Democrats against
playing politics with the court. The
Judiciary Committee of the House has
been giving extensive hearings on the
question of continuing the court, and
the weight of the testimony is in favor
of such continuance.
When the court first came into ex-
istence it was attacked in the press be-
cause some of its decisions negatived
the orders of the Interstate Commerce
Commission. Later, however, it be-
came apparent that the court was fol-
lowing the dictates of law rather than
of sentiment, and that the shipper had
as much to hope for from it as the
railroads. Now the demand for i
continuance comes as much from the
shippers as from the railroads, while
national sentiment has resented the
abolition of judicial body, whose ex-
istence shortened by years the delays
of litigation. Congress is twisted over
the issue. ~
To what outrageous lengths the
practice of legislation by rider has
grown of recent years, no one can
guess who has not made a study of
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WEEDS FRENCH N0BLEMAN.
Mrs. Joseph Stickney, Wealthy
Widow, Surprises Friends.

London. July Mrs. Joseph Stickney.
a wealthy New York widow. was mar
ried today in Westminster Cathedral To
Prince Aymon Faucigny-Lucinge, a
French nobleman and the descendant OF
famous old French family. The we'd
ding created a stir in society, as 1t was
not known that Mrs. Stickney and the
prince were engaged.
Mrs Stickney has been living in Lon
don since the death of her husband in
1904. She has been reported numerous
times as engaged to Frank II. Hitchcock.
former Postmaster General of the United
States; Louis Bruguiere, San Francisco
millionaire. and Baron Hans Won
Bleichroeder a German nobleman.
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Mrs. L0ngStreet Ignored
Bv Reunion Executives
Celebration as Newspaper Correspondent,
While Mrs. Logan Is Special Guest.

celebration commission, and others
having to do with the entertainment
and special arrangements. Some re-
piled courteously, but others were too
busy to reply at all. So Mrs. Long
street grabbed up her baggage and a
typewriter and came as a newspaper
correspondent.
sleeps on Floor of Cabin.
Gen. Liggett, commanding officer of the
camp. has given her tent for an ONCE
but she had to seek food and shelter
elsewhere. For two nights she slept on
the floor in a cabin of a poor family
near by, and she would have been COM
PEELED to give up and return to Wash
ington had not Gen. Sickles taken her
in and given her a tent at his headquar-
tiers at the old Rogers House, half
mile from headquarters, to and from
which Mrs. Longstreet walks through the
hot and dusty road.
Tonight a delegation of Longstreets
men from Georgia, learning of her pres
ence and her fluctuations. went out to the
old farmhouse and gave her serenade
with the same drums and flies that led
the valiant army of her husband, long
since dead. Then they gave three cheer
for the lone woman of the Confederacy'
in the Gettysburg reunion. and thus she
will be known throughout the reunion.
After paying this tribute the word was
sent about for all of Longstreet's men
to go out to the "high-water mark" OF
the Confederacy, on. Cemetery Hill. to-
morrow morning and give her rousins
reception. When these plans got abroad
through the Confederate camps the ru-
NOR spread that Mrs. Pickett also was
here, and Pickett's gallant survivors
planned to pay q like tribute to her.
They were disappointed when they
learned they could not meet on Pickett'l
ground the wife of their hero.
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ALITTLE NONSENSE.
THE SANE FOURTH.

THE SANE FOURTH.
We used to jest with thoughtless zest
About the Fourths mishaps.
But now We try to make July
Quite safe for little chaps.
No more We fear that Willie's ear
Will vanish in the fray.
No ill-timed wheeze of injured knees
Is humorous today.
No foolish pranks deplete our ranks:
Our kids such things disdain.
They have their mirth; but now the
Is decorous and sane.
A Dreadful Slam.
II guess I amt much Of hit with
Mrs. Wombat."
why not?''
Eat the party last night. she left me
to talk to her husband"
A Great Change.
Times nave changed"
How now"
MY boy. instead of burning powder on
the Fourth. is going to be in an exhi-
bftion drill of the Boy Scouts, illustrating
first aid to the injured"
Between Girls.
Mabel, do you favor the long or short
BALLOT"
II think it ought to reach the knee"
responded Mabel dreamily. "Oh, excuse
me. You know, I am planning my bath
ing suit"
Lost Count.
Whats the argument about?"
LAS to whether the new boat is Sham
rock " or Shamrock XIV. Do you
know"
For the Fourth.
Ny youngster may not hurt his hand
Or get his backbone bent;
But still I think I'll have on hand
A little liniment-
Another shrine Attacked.
Now men condemn the swimming hole
in most emphatic terms; they say II
plays q vicious role, disseminating germs
Quite So.
There is nothing like the loneliness Of
q great CITY,"
Especially to the man who doesn',
advertiser
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Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy.

The friction between Greece and
Servia on one side and Bulgaria on
the other has generated fire and flame.
The skirmishes between outpoSts, which
have been going on for weeks, have
warned watching Europe to expec;
trouble If the powers were unit in
the desire and purpose to avert war
they could soon prevail upon Bulgaria
to act with moderation toward its re-
cent allies, but, unfortunately, there
is at least one of the powers which
eggs on the fight in the hope that
when the combatants are exhausted it
will be able to crafty its land hunger.
That power is Austria, which pro-
NOTED IAN autonomous Albania" TO
prevent Servia from getting an indie
pendent outlet to the Adriatic. Vienna
statesmen believe that Servia, if land
locked, will wither. All Europe fol-
lowed Austria in the naval dcmonstra-
ton to coerce little Montenegro, and
the triple entente will find it difficult
to get rid of that embarrassing prece-
dent now. England, France, and Rus
STA had their choice then. They chose
to second the Driebund. and it will be
a most awkward turn-about for them
to step in now to thwart the Austrian
scheme
The responsibility that may follow
the war between the allies must rest
on Bulgaria, which has started the
rumpus in the confidence that it can
deal more sword blows than Sevia
and Greece put together Its aspira-
tons are plain. 1t seeks to take all
the territory it wants from that con-
quered by the Balkan allies. Then, if
there is anything left TO divide, Greece
and Servia may have it, subject TO Bull
garia's approval. What the Bulgarian
lion does not,care for, he will let the
jackals have, for as jackals he classes
his late associates.
If naughty spirit always goes be-
fore a fall, Bulgaria is in imminent
danger of humiliation. Greece has
picked up the gauntlet. 1t has sought
to keep peace and Saloniki. Bulgaria
is unwilling that Greece should keep
either. Greece has endured much in
the past few weeks. but it has reached
the point where further patience would
invite more affronts.
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Lessons of the Excise Law.

Tie administration of the new excise
law reveals the antiquities and incon-
sistencies of the statute. There are
also discriminatory provisions which
are possibly unconstitutional.
There is mere than one lesson in
this situation. The first is that legis-
lation should not be attached to an ap-
preparation bill. The new excise law
was hastily added as an amendment
to the District budget, without consid-
Grafton by the District Committee. 1t
is no wonder that perplexing legislation
arises from such action, and Repre-
sentative Page, the new chairman of
the District Appropriation Bill Com.
mittee, is to be commended for de-
claring that hereafter the measure I'M
der his charge shall not be used as
a hook to hang all manner of laws
upon There may be occasional emer-
gency cases demanding an exception
to the rule, but only in these in
stances should legislation be tolerated.
The second lesson is the necessity
for close scrutiny by Washington bust
ness men OF measures affecting the
District While it is true that the
grating of the excise law upon the
District appropriation bill was unex-
pected. it is also true that 1t had been
considered previously in the Senate.
1t seems strange, even conceding that
business men do not have the time nor
the legal experience to make an ex-
animation of proposed laws, that some
of the legal or excise experts in the
District government did not point out
the perplexities which are now seen
to exist in the law. If they did so,
and Congress failed to heed their in
formation, the blame is with Congress.
Otherwise, it looks as if there was
neglect somewhere in not pointing out
the defects in the measure before it
became law.
4utlC - Still dIlOlllSE IiDld d. HIS
experience shows that Congress ought
to exercise the greatest care in legis-
lating for the District 1t is not fair
to the District people 10 impose laws
upon them which Senators and Rep
resentatives would not vote for in
their own cities. Neither is it good
legislation to enact laws which are
so drastic, so involved, and so annoy
ing that they invite evasion or viola
ton. The vast majority of District
people are in sympathy with the spirit
of the excise law, but they also wish
that the law could have been more
explicit and consistent in its language.
We are not apt to have repetition
of this experience if laws are not has
tily attached to an appropriation bill
At the same time, the District Com
missioners ought to make the closest
examination of pending bills. If nee
essary, they should hold conferences
with representatives of the interests
affected Certainly a law enacted by
Congress should not be t,e sad con-
glomeration which the excise law
seems IN he
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AUTO MANUFACTURE GROWS.
LAST Census Report Places Value Mt
&249.2O2,0T5.

4 compilation of statistics relative &c
The automobile industry of the United
States during 1903, issued yesterday by
the Bureau of the Census of the Depart
ment of Commerce, shows that complete
cars, parts, and bodies to the value OF
s249 co.. 60 were manufactured in the
United States in that year.
OF the 1i3 establishments engaged in
the manufacture of articles allied to the
trade and of cars themselves. but S1
produced complete automobiles. The
number of complete cars turned out in
1909 was 1859
The total number of persons engaged
in the industry in the United States in
1859 was $3.50. Ninety-five and one
tenth per cent Of the 1903 automobiles
were gasoline. more than six times the
number in 1901 Steam and electric We
hicles increased in much smaller pro-
portion. Sixty and one-tenth per cent OF
all cars made in 1909 were touring cars.
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CAR LEAVES TRACKS;
NO PASSENGERS HURT

A westbound car running on the
eastbound tracks OF the Capital Trac-
ton line left it's trucks at Seventeenth
Street and Pennsylvania Avenue at
o'clock this morning. Although the
car carried about twenty passengers.
no one was hurt. The use Of the east
bound track was caused by repairs
being made at Seventh street and the
Avenue. The wrecking crew was call
ed. and traffic was resumed within half
an hour.
The car was in charge of Conductor
Benner and Motorman Macinturn-
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statement regarding the incident. NY
statement was as follows:
''The vote on Senator Hitchcock
amendment had no signifcance a. 'noi-
eating any sympathy with the TOBACCO
Trust or other monopoly on the part OF
any member Of the conference On the
contrary, there was unanimous senti-
ment in favor OF drastic legislation on
that subject ss,
Nearly all who opposed the resolution
based their action upon the theory that
the tariff bill should not be loaded down
with general legislation, and especially
with legislation directed against one trust
and affecting none of the others
Another objection earnestly urged was
that the proper consideration OF the
Hitchcock amendment would delay the
passage of the tariff bill for consid-
cradle time and unnecessarily disappoint
the business and other interests that are
demanding speedy action on that meas
ure.
IAN agreed that every Democratic
platform pledge on the subject OF trusts
and monopolies should be faithfully car
ried out by legislation carefully drawn
for that purpose"
The Senate caucus devoted a part OF
yesterday to an amendment offered by
Senator Myers of Montana requiring tina,
all wooden goods be labeled in way
to show the percentage Of wool thes
contain. The amendment has beer
styled the pure fabric amendment. Mr.
Myers advocated II In a speech. anc
Senator Williams opposed II. The
amendment was finally voted down. SEN
ator OGorman addressed the caucus N
the afternoon In support OF change In
the language of the mutual insurance
provision OF the income tax. but his pro-
posal was not well received. The mem
bers OF the Finance Committee agreed t6
consider. but II is foregone conclusion
that It will not be adopted.
Meeting for To-day.
Worn out with their long struggle the
caucus adjourned shortly before O'Clock
until this afternoon at O'Clock. There
was no meeting OF the Finance Commit
tee last night. Democratic Senators arr
completely overcome by their arduou,
work and the intense heat. and wer,
forced to suspend their work for rest
II is possible that the bill may not bt
completed this week. and In that event
It may not De reported to the Senate un-
I'll the middle or last OF next week.
The majority of the Finance Commit
tee will meet this morning and take ur
some of its unfinished work. 1t ha,
been decided not to eliminate the child
labor amendment. but II will be modified
materially. II was learned that Sena'
tor Hughes OF New Jersey is the author
OF this amendment
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.SULzER BRANDS
SUIT BLACKMAIL
Says Breach of Promise Ac-
ton Is Murphy Plot to
Discredit Him.
ADMITS HE KNEW WOMAN
She Made Same Accusations Years
Ago, Governor Declares, and Was
Unable to Sustain Them.

Gettysburg, July Gov. Sulzer gave
out the following interview today:
Yes" said Gov. Sulzer today at Get
tysburg, Il read about that Hopkins
frame-up in Philadelphia. There is moth
ing to it of which / am afraid. The
whole thing looks like poor conspiracy.
and seems to be stale and fishy.
THE fact is, the suit of this woman
Hopkins is blackmail," went on the Gov
ernor, and more-it is instigated by my
political enemies and is a part of the
plot of Boss Murphy and his political
conspiraters to discredit me. because they
cannot use me for their nefarious schemes
to loot the State of New York.
'1f I were willing to be Murphy's kind
of Governor no one would have heard
of this and other matters he is using
about me- That goes without saying.
But because / am fighting graft,
fighting for good government. and fight
ing for direct nomination, Murphy and
his hirelings are doing everything in
their power to destroy me politically
They have been threatening me ever
since l became Governor because I would
not be a tool and a proxy Governor.
Knew Miss Hopkins.
II defied them all to do their worst.
Their efforts to injure me with homes:
ward without fear, come what may I
never did thing in my life of which
am ashamed.
Suffice IL to say" said the Governor,
in conclusion, that / knew this Hop
kins woman years ago. I was friend
OF her family in their distress; but
deny emphatically that ever agreed IL
marry her: that ever wronged her: that
i ever lived with her; or that ever held
her rs, NV wife
This Hopkins woman is dangerous
She sued me in New York. for breach OF
promise, some time after I married
about six years ago. She could not sus-
tain her charges and admitted shs
brought the suit for Interior purposes.
That case was settled and my lawyer has
a general release frcm this woman to
me. My reason for settling then was on
account of the precarious condition OF
Mrs. Sulzer.
This Hopkins woman has no casa
against me. Her statements are false.
She is now the tool of desperate politi-
cal conspirators, but Murphy, it seems,
has only bought another last years bird 3
nest. l wonder what he paid for it? I'll
warrant you cannot get him to tell you
that. Just try to find OUT