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any others. 1t is a matter that con-
Germs the fundamental principles Of
the government.
"A curious legal question is the result
of this controversy. What power, il
any, has Congress over the printing
of decisions of the Supreme Court.
which tribunal is an Independent branch
of the government, and Congress may
not dictate to it as to how to perform
its functions. But since Congress has
control of the pursestrings, 1T is able
INDIRECTLY to dictate what they shall
do in certain particulars. Every year
Congress sets aside certain moneys for
the expense of the Supreme Court.
and, if it so desired, Congress could
limit the appropriation for printing so
as to force the Supreme Court either
to follow the example of the other
departments of the Federal govern
ment and have its printing done at
cost at the Government Printing Of
fee, or else dig down into its own
pocket and pay the rate which the
committee of the Senate that investi-
gated the matter termed Outrageous"
The matter involves, as was pointed
out on the floor of the Senate, a fun
damental principle of government.
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Informer Mulhall.

Before passing judgment on the as
founding charges made by Martin
Mulhall it will be well to remember
that he is a self-confessed briber, and
as such has undoubtedly been careless
of the truth in his alleged dealings
with many men.
Even the old saying, where there is
SO much smoke there must be some
fire." hardly holds good in his case.
for his record has been so nefarious
that the fire might turn out to be
simply steam that arises from decayed
matter.
Informer Mulhall has made charges
that must be thoroughly investigated,
and if his statements are proven true,
or, in fact, if only very few of them
are correct, the informer himself
should be the first to be made to
suffer the consequences.
According to Mulhall he was the
paid agent TO do the dirty work of
the National Association of Manufac
turers. He stopped at nothing to gain
his ends, even to the extent of hiring
a page to spy on members OF Congress.
He did this for years. Then he was
dismissed by his employers. 1t left
him out in the cold. No honest people
could or would employ him. His rec
ord was too damnable. His income
stopped. He saw chance to make some
more money by selling out those who
had employed him and getting even"
with them. His last act was on par
with his career as briber. Il is gen.
orally understood that he sold the story
of his Infamous work as a lobbyist
for $4,000. The story of his own
crimes and of his alleged victims.
If President Wilson's lobby investi-
cation doesn't result in anything else,
the good it has done in ending the
career of man like Informer Mulhall
is beyond computation
The Washington herald., 1913-07-01
District Committee Publicity.

Representative Walters of .Pennsyl-
vania, the Progressive party member
of the House District Committee, pur-
poses that all the meetings of the COM
mittee shall be public. His suggestion
is, now under consideration.
There seems to be no reason why il
should not be adopted. There is
nothing secret about any business con-
nected with the District before Con-
gress. The meetings of the committee
are equivalent to sessions of a COM
mon council, which are always open.
When the vital questions of local gov
eminent and the Federal partnership
are discussed, the District people have
a right to know wher. their legislators
stand. If matters affecting corporate
interests are being considered it is i'm
portant that there should be no Sc
crecy. As to the minor details of ad-
ministration, every, one will admit that
they do not have to be debated behind
closed doors.
Publicity for committee meetings
cannot possibly do harm and may be
beneficial. 1t will certainly demon
strate that there is nothing connected
with District legislation which any
body wants to conceal.
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The Postmaster Generals Dilemma.

Postmaster General Burleson is be-
ing made a target because of the re-
port that since his incumbency he has
appointed 1000 postmasters, presum-
ably Democrats. .-.
The difficulty of making any attempt
to please both the civil service extern
sionists and the spoilsmen must appeal
to the Postmaster General these days.
Mr.. Burleson had hardly been in
office a week before it was declared
that he was either appointing or retain
ing Republicans in the Postofice De
partment and the result would be that
they would serve as a barrier to all
Democrats.
Now the shoe is on the other foot.
When it is considered that there are
$1,000 postmasters in the country, prac-
tically all of whom were appointed by
Republican Presidents or Republican
Postmaster Generals during the last
sixteen years, the record probably will
show that 1000 changes is not unusual.
In any event the Postmaster General
is acting within his rights when he is
not violating the civil service laws,
whether it be in the appointment of
either Republicans or Democrats.
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DENVER MAY GAIN
next CONVENTION
Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
viii Settle Long Fight Today.
Oakland q Close Second.
THREE OFFICES ARE VACANT

Delegates to the convention of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and
Enginemen, worn out by the alI-day fight
precipitated by an unexpected move
! which brought the selection Of the next
convention city before the convention
early yesterday morning, welcomed the
final roll call on the fourth ballot near
s O'Clock. and were glad to call the bat
tie a draw and rest up for the final
clash today.
without a choice resulting. On the
fourth Denver lacked only six votes of
gaining the coveted honor. Oakland was
pressing Denver hard for her lead. and
these two cities will fight il out today.
Denver appears to have the edge on
her California rival but there is no tell
ing which the Toronto supporters will
favor. Los Angeles dropped out of the
race on the first ballot, Indianapolis on
the second. ST. Louis on the third. and
Toronto on the fourth. II Denver can
hold all Of the votes she polled yester-
day and gain six of the Toronto votes,
she will win the fight.
Under the rules adopted by the con-
vention II was necessary to make the
choice by elimination, the city receiving
the lowest number or votes dropping out
on each ballot There Is little doubt
that a choice will result on the fifth
ballot. which will be taken Immediately
after the opening of the convention to-
Gay.
Following the selection of the CONVEX
ton city the election Of officers will be
held. Announcement was made yester-
day that two Of the present vice presl-
dents OF the brotherhood. who have been
in the harness for a number of years,
will retire from Office which. together
with the newly created office of vice pres
ident, will make three offices to FILL
There are about six or seven candidates
in the field for these Offices, and a pro-
longed fight is liable to delay the final
adjournment of the convention. An of
the other officers. Il Is generally conceded.
will be reelected without opposition
II was decided yesterday to make the
report of the trial committee. which has
been considering the charges against II.
o. Teat, chairman Of the board of d.
rectors. the special order of business
tomorrow morning, provided the election
of officers is completed today.
II is expected that final adjournment
will be taken late tomorrow night
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LABOR OFFICER HOLDS
N. A. N. CHARGES true
Frank Morrison, Secretary Of A. F. Of
L., Says He Is Familiar with Some
Incidents in Statement.
JOHN B. coLPoYs IS ENDORSED

declaring that an investigation of the
books of the National Association of
Manufacturers would reveal some as
founding information as to where and
how about s1.5OoOOo had been expended.
! Frank Morrison, secretary of the Ameri-
can Federation, made an impromptu
speech at the weekly meeting of the Gen.
trail Labor Union last night In Typo
graphical Temple.
Mr.. Morrison stated that the sworn
! statement Of Martin NJ. Mulhan. which
has thrown the politicians in turmoil.
reall:- substantiated the disclosures made
American Federation of Labor, in a
speech at the annual convention in Nor
folk in 1907
Mr.. Gompers at that time made II
known that the n. A. II. was hostile 10
the efforts OF organized labor and that
much money was being expended TO de-
feat whatever legislation the federation
was attempting to nave passed in its
behalf. Continuing, Mr.. Morrison re-
marked that he was familiar with sew
eral of the incidents related in MulhaIrs
Statement and knew they were true.
The appointment OF John B. Colpoys
to the Excise Board and James O'Con-
nell to the Commission on Industrial Re-
lations was heartily Endorsed by the fol-
lowing resolution:
Resolved. That organized labor and
the people of the District of Columbia
are to be congratulated upon the selec-
ton Of two representative workingmen
of Washington for important Federal po-
sitions-James A O'Connell to be a MEM
Der of the Commission on Industrial
Relations and John B. Colpoys to be a
member of the Excise Board. Mr.. O'Con-
nell is a student of economic questions
and has had a wide experience in the
Industrial efforts of organized craftsmen
for the past thirty years. Mr.. Colpoys
is an effective. high-minded. intelligent
worker in behalf Of civic betterment and
Industrial peace. whose abstemious
habits. conservative Judgment, and lofty
ideals peculiarly equip him for the re-
sponsible moral duties imposed by the
new excise law"
The Washington herald., 1913-07-01
BULGARS DEFEAT
SERVIAN TROOPS
Heavy Loss Of Life On Both Sides
In Fighting Around
Guevgheli.

Philadelphia, June 3o-The will OF Miss
Lucy Hunter Baird. Of Washington. who
died here on June 10. was probated to-
day and it devised her body to the medi-
cal profession for the use OF science She
directed that her body be given to DR.. S.
Weir Mitchell and his son. DR.. John King
Mitchell, to perform the autopsy, ex-
pressing the hope that they would dis
cover some causes of such a nervous dis
ease as that from which she had suf-
fered.
MSS Baird gave $4,000 for the use of
Charles c. Churchill, of Newport, during
his life, and $4,000 to the Orthopaedic
Hospital DIR two free beds, in honor of
Sylvester Churchill, u S. A, and DR..
John K. Mitchell. The residue of the
estate Is placed in trust for many rela-
tives, and after their death each fund
is to revert to the Smithsonian institu-
ton. to be converted into the Spencer
Fullerton Baird fund. the income from
which is to be devoted to scientific re-
search, biological studies. and the pur-
chase of specimens.
Miss Baird bequeathed to the National
Museum at Washington the specimens
collected by her father, and his library.
regarded as one Of the most complete on
biology In the country.
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shares transferred to II. upon full pay
ment of the subscription price. The
holder of full paid certificate may.
at any time prior to January first, 1915,
by presenting and surrendering the
same TO the trustee, receive the num-
Der of shares of Southern Pacific stock
represented thereby, together with all
dividends declared thereon, beginning
with that of April /. 1913 Out with
out INTEREST,", but only upon the ex-
press condition that he make an afi-
davit. in the form prescribed. showing
in substance that he does not own in
his own right any shares Of the capital
stock of the Union Pacific Railroad.
that he Is making the application in
good faith In his own right. and that
he is not acting for or on behalf of
Company. or in concert, agreement or
understanding with any one seeking to
control the Southern Pacific Company
in the interest Of the Union Pacific
Company.
"s The trustee shall pay over to- the
petitioners. from time to time. the
money received for the beneficial certif-
Gates and shall collect all dividends due
or to become due upon the stock in its
hands
20 II. after January /. 1915 any GER
tlncates OF interest remain Outstanding.
the court may, direct the trustee to sell
the stock represented thereby. and pay
the proceeds to the lawful holders. The
trustee shall become a party to the
cause, and shall at all times be subject
to its ordeys and DEGREES. Any party
may, however SO advised. apply to the
court for such further orders or DEGREES
as may be necessary fully to carry into
effect the decree Of the Supreme Court.
Provision will be made requiring the
trustee to report to the court at fire.
quent intervals, and likewise upon re-
quest to the Attorney General of the
United States-'
The court was asked by the govern
ment for an extension OF time for the
filing of objection before the final decree
was entered. The attorneys for the rail-
road asked that the decision be given
without any delay.
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BOOKKEEPERS
A bookkeeper is a man who lives on
ny GEORGE FITCH,
Author of "At Good Old sfwash."

A bookkeeper is a man who lives or
figures.
Take figures away from a bookkeeper
and he will die OF starvation unless he
can get government appointment.
Even with the aid of figures IL is hard
enough for the bookkeeper to make ends
meet. After the pale and nervous book.
keeper has finished erecting a pyramid
Of figures which show that his employer
has made 100000 during the last year,
he goes out on the street and fiips a
coin to decide whether to ride home on
the street car or to plunge wildly into
extravaganza and buy a nickel cigar.
Bookkeepers not only live on figures
but they train them to do many wonder
full tricks. A skillful bookkeeper can sit
down in the middle of a wilderness of
wild and unreasonable figures and in six
months he can have them showing divi-
dends and surplus accounts where only
ruin grew before.
For this he sometimes gets as much as
800 a month. The cost of living has
gone up industriously, but the cost of
bockkeepers has remained remarkably
steady for many years. After the vet
eran bookkeeper has spent all day fig-
uring out some new way for his en-
ployer to invest a surplus 50 that the
public will not notice It and demand a
cut In the price of gas, he has to go
home and figure all night in order to
make so week buy as much as 1t did
before the butcher borrowed step lad
der and, put up the price of meat
The booikeeper is the compass OF the
employer. The employer does the bust
ness and produces the goods. but it takes
the humble bookkeeper to show MIN at
the end Of the month where he Is at.
Before bookkeepers were invented men
kept their accounts by notched sticks,
and when the SON of q merchant bor-
roWed his books for . nshing pole, BUSH
uoGs Had to suspend
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ALITTLE NONSENSE.
THINKING TT OVER.

A Western Legislature would requir
that all divorce petitions stand q yea
TO enable the parties to think IT over
Press item.
You think It over for year;
The quarrel won't seem so severe.
The sharp retort. the hasty word.
In a years time will seem absurd.
Why. Just a month OF thoughtful life
Would benefit both man and wife.
In thirty days, IL not before,
They'd be as loving as of yore.
We think a law is bound to pay
Which brings to bear a slight delay.
Why, few for a divorce would seek
Who thought 1t over for a week.
The Washington herald., 1913-07-01
NEW ISLE OF SAFETY"
CAUSE OF QUESTIONS
Policeman Spends Time Enlishtening
Those Who Carefully Walk
Around White Posts.

An isle of safety was instituted yes.
terday by order Of Mai Sylvester. chief
OF police. at the intersection of New
York Avenue, H and Thirteenth Streets.
The isle is modelled after those In New
York, but the wooden posts which en-
close IT are stationary. In New York
the posts are Of iron, and are removed
when traffic Is light
A policeman was stationed at the isle
to instruct drivers of vehicles to keep
to the right. He spent most of his time
in answering questions OF pedestrians
who circled the isle carefully as though
afraid they would trespass IL they
crossed It.
Some of the questions from the passers-
by, thousands of whose number have
during recent years made requests that
the zones be established. were:
When are they going to start the
meeting?"
what are they going to build here?"
why have they fenced this of?
think it's shame that taxpayers should
have to walk around this place. but I'll
bet that il I tried to cross it I'd be ar
rested"
The Washington herald., 1913-07-01
WASHINGTON WOMAN
GIVES BODY TO SCIENCE
Miss Lucy Hunter Baird Directs Thai
Corpse Go to DR.. 5. Weir
Mitchell.

Sofia, June 3o.-An doubt that war be-
tween Bulgaria and her former allies in
war In earnest was removed today when
5000 Bulgarians defeated the Servians
at Guevgheli, with great loss of life on
both sides. A force of more than 2oo. 900
Bulgarians has been strung out in a line
100 miles long to the northeast of Saloni-
XII, breaking communication between the
Greeks and Servians, gaining many
points of great strategic advantage and
dominating the whole Panghaion region.
The town of Elenteri is among those
captured BY Bulgarians
The Washington herald., 1913-07-01
The Supreme Court Printing Bill.

During a debate in the Senate over
a resolution, annulling the one passed
in 1885, providing that Senators be
furnished with printed copies of the
decisions of the United States Supreme
Court, it developed that our highest
tribunal does not. want the Govern
ment Printing Office to do its print
ing. 1t fears a leak" Accordingly
the Supreme Court decisions officially
are turned over to a private printing
company, which charges S2.o5 per
printed page. For the printing of ad-
ditional copies for the use of Sena-
tors this company charges at the rate
of 80 cents per printed page.
These prices seemed to the Commit
tee on Audit and Control of the Con-
tingent Expenses of the Senate to be
"outrageously high" The committee
calculated that the Senate, if it really
desired TO keep in touch with the de-
cisions of the Supreme Court, might
subscribe at the rate of S. yeaE for
each Senator to periodical edition of
these decisions, also issued by pri-
vate company. 1t was found that the
decisions could be obtained in this way
at less annual cost than the amount
paid by the Senate under present con-
ditions for three months.
The presentation of these figures to
the Senate caused a furry, and this
furry was increased rather than abated
when Senator Shafroth of Colorado
stated:
/ do not believe one Senator out of
fifty reads these decisions / have
asked a number of Senators and
have not found one who has said that
he has read them, or any considerable
number of them. In fact, / have failed
to find a Senator who said that he had
read a decision.
Senator Smoot of Utah would not
let such charge pass unanswered. He
said: q will say to the Senator that ]
have read decision
But Senator Shafroth stuck to his
original argument that the printing of
the decisions at the enormous rate
warranted the abolition of the printing
of these decisions for the use of SEN
ators. This led Senator Nelson OF
Minnesota to deliver homily on the
importance of the United States SUI
preme Court decisions:
If the price is too high make il rea-
sonable, but do not deprive the Senate
of the benefits of tl.cse decisions. We
need them more than we need any
thing else in the shape of literature.-I
agree with the Senator from Colorado
tf.at the price is too high, and that we
ought TO make IT more moderate; but
we should not totally rescind the reso-
luton and deprive the Senate of the
value of those decisions. / think if
Senators will reflect on this matter
they viii see that it is Of more i'm
portance and more .far-reachin9 than
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Many men became such skilful book
keepers that in the course of few
years they have figured themselves into
the proprietor's chair. But many others
are strictly honest and die nobly. 50
ahead of the constable.
There Is a growing suspicion that Ana
MAS was really a bookkeeper who had
The Washington herald., 1913-07-01
FLATHER HOME ENTERED.
BURGLAR Makes Way Into Residcns
Of Riggs Banks Vice President.

Burglar Makes Way Into Residence
Of Riggs Banks Vice President.
A number Of robberies and petit lar
cenies were reported to the police yes
terday.
Edward Mohler. of Greenville, d. c.,
told the police that his home was en-
tered shortly after 4 o'clock yesterday
morning and IS cents and a plug of to-
bacco stolen. The robber entered the
Mohler residence by means Of ladder
placed up to q second-story window.
John Champion had so bill taken
from q pair of trousers he had left In
his room. near Benning race track.
A burglar entered the apartments of
Mrs. Catherine Young, 2o7 Hilyer Place
Northwest early yesterday morning. He
was frightened away.
The home of William ]. Father. vice
president of the Riggs National Bank,
was entered about o'clock yesterday
morning. but the burglar was frightened
away before he took anything.
The Washington herald., 1913-07-01

1t has been decided that the picture
September Morn may be sent through
the mails: but there would have been a
different decision If DR.. Parkhurst had
been Postmaster General.
The Washington herald., 1913-07-01

The fact that the New York Legisla-
ture rejected 1t is calculated to make
most wavering people decide that the
direct primary law is a most desirable
thing after ALL
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No Interference.

Didn't you see JIMMY" demanded
Mrs. Wombat-
II did" said Mr.. wombat He was
playing ball, and when I saw him he
was on second base"
well, why didn't you bring him
homer
My dear, / wasn't in the game. 1t
was up to the batsman TO bring him
home"
The Washington herald., 1913-07-01

There is a general belief that the st.
Louis man who advertised that his wife
is respectable, well-meaning woman"
is a dreadfully hen-pecked husband.
The Washington herald., 1913-07-01

South Carolina editors. at their meet
ing in Charleston the other day. drank
grape juice. At least that is what they
called it
The Washington herald., 1913-07-01

If the Blue and the Gray had known
each other fifty-odd years ago as well as
they know each other now, there would
have been no war.
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Fleeing the storm.

ct think I'd rather go home to mother
for a WHILE
Anything serious impending
We'll, Yes. My husband is going to
take an afternoon OF and dye his straw
hat"
The Washington herald., 1913-07-01

Mail heavy this week. Hiram
1T is that" responded the rural post
master. Two grindstones and a post
hole digger. by gosh!'
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1t is fine to receive a vindication. of
course, but it is a whole lot better to
never need one.S
The Washington herald., 1913-07-01

Now is the time to buy an encyclo-
pedia. Mr. WI Ting-fang is coming
back to this country.
The Washington herald., 1913-07-01

Emperor William has been defeated in
a yacht race by an Englishman. Premier
Asquith had better be on his guard.
The Washington herald., 1913-07-01

We know of one man who greatly en-
Joyed the sermon last sunday. He
dreamed that rich uncle hsd disd and
left him million doliars.
The Washington herald., 1913-07-01

1t is a real mean husband who will
command his wife to do thing that he
knows she wants to do.
The Washington herald., 1913-07-01

Gov. suizer furnished his Legislature
the weapon. put ne cou,ony make ~
commit hari-kart
The Washington herald., 1913-07-01

DR.. friedman has been saying nice
things about the United States. How is
that for turning the other cheek?
The Washington herald., 1913-07-01

The Bull Moose herd may have a lean
winter with the head shepherd down in
South America.
The Washington herald., 1913-07-01
Not Like n Woman.

Fortunately, man doesn't have to
look for a hat that is becoming. All he
wants is a rough fit and something that
doesn't cost over three plunks.
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Way 1t Goes.

Way 1t Goes.
"A famous artist has It SO much easier
than an unknown painter"
How so?"
The unknown painter has to make
his portraits look like the people he
paints. The people a famous artist paints
are willing to try to look like their por-
traits"
The Washington herald., 1913-07-01
Too Much Ball.

why did you move away from Chi
cago?"
THE doctor advised my husband to
move to some town with only one team
to worry about"
The Washington herald., 1913-07-01
Backyard Art.

He tanked up. did our whitewash man
He used a reckless fist,
And did a job that looked worse than
A post-impressionist.