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SATURDAY FEBRUARY 2 Ififf

Secretary Shaws Newest IdeaSecretary Shaw is nothing If not con-

structive Within two days his brain hascontributed to the thought of the nationplans for the extension ef foreign trade11 nd for the Improvement of the currencysystem Neither we suppose te to bettken too seriously Certainly not the

miaole Secretarys proposal for a seriesof bonded ports along the coast whereinmay be located manufacturing plants fortie production of goods to be sold at lowprices abroad and high prices at homeWhat a beautiful object lesson such ports

be in the advantages of tarifCnr-otcted monopoly

When ia the last session of CongressJohn Sharp Williams asserted that Amerlan manufactures were being soldabroad at lower prices than in the homemarket he was greeted with a chorus ofBering denials from the high tariff ad-

vocates Nothing of the sort was beingnone they said and even if It wee thepractice kept our mills going and ourworkmen employed But here comes

cheerfully admitting that it is alltrue proposing that the system be givena permanent place in our domesticeconomy and trying to convince us thatwe ought to pay high prices for the sakeof maintaining the standpat policy

We trust Mr Shaw will continue in hisjcular manner to hammer away at IsIsbonded ports idea It may do some goodla the cause of tariff revision

Richard Mansfield objects to beingcalled a star says the Indianapolis SunNaturally He Is a constellation

Our Relations with JapanOne of the inevitable Incidents of a mili-

tarist policy is that every movement oftroops or ships or every proposal to in-

crease armaments is bound to be Inter-preted as preparation for war with somespecific enemy and those responsible forthe conduct of government are constantlyexplaining that their actions are guidedonly by the most pacific Intentions Notlng ago Germany was the especial ob-

ject of solicitude on the part of those whokeep a weather eye out for Ute next war

Japan Is put forward as our comingAntagonist The inference is not unnatural that OUt vast war preparationsiictual and projected must have some ob-ject in view that the expenditure of mil-lions for national defense eon be justifiednly on the theory that an attack upon

ns from some quarter or other is withiniie bounds of possibility Neverthelessit is unfortunate that every opportunityshould be sought by sensationalists tocreate a war scare particularly whendiplomatic negotiations of a delicate na-ture are afoot tending to eliminate theery friction out of which the vision of

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in journalism and it is not indigenous tothis country but it is on every groundreprehensible and in the particular in-

stance wholly unjustifiableWe think the country may be congratu-

lated upon the progress made by thePresident and Secretary of State inthe negotiations with the Tokyo govern-ment looking to the amicable and voluntary exclusion of Japanese immigrants ofthe lower class from the United Statesand her dependencies in return for therecognition by the Pacific States of theequal rights of Nipponese children to edu-cation In the public schools The willing-ness of the Japanese government to meetthe United States more than half way inthis matter is an emphatic token of thefriendly disposition of the Mikados minis

Our failure to come to an understand-ing with the Japanese government wouldlv an egregious blunder Nothing standsin the way of such an understanding butthe legislation of a single State perhaps-it would be more accurate to say noth-ing but the order of a single board ofeducation in one city based on what mayprove to be an entirely erroneous inter-pretation of the California statute providing for the segregation of Mongolians inschools of their own When this orderwent Into effect there were ninetythreeNipponese children attending the publicschools of San Francisco distributedtmong twentythree buildings They wereright cleanly and well behaved and for

most part under seventeen years ofgc It will strike a disinterested ob-

server that the presence of less than MO

pupils of so capable a race as the Japa-nese scattered about the schools of a greattty can hardly be seriously considered asmenacing to racial Integrity or public1 rals It is in any event entirely

a matter to be permitted to affectInjuriously the rotations of two great na-

tions hitherto bound by close ties ofamity

It seems improbable that the San Fran-cisco school authorities will insist on theirinterpretation of the California segrega-tion statute In view of the larger object-to be gained Uy a concession on the schoolquestion That larger object is the ex-

clusion of Japanese immigrants towhich we understand the Japanese gov-

ernment te willing to assent by the termsa new treaty Even should the Mikados

government hesitate to go thus far itwould oensent as a matter of domesticpolicy to prohibiting the emigration of itssubjects to American territory as theseemigrants are needed elsewhere in pursu-ance of the alms of Japanese expansion in

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the Orient In either case the PacificSlope would be protected from the grow-ing Invasion of Japanese coolies who areregarded as an undesirable and unas-simihlble addition to the population of thefar West L

Tho present situation of the negotiationsis one calling for sweet reasonablenessand calm consideration InflammatoryUtterance and the ragh attitude of the ir-

reconcilable are equally out of place andequally to bo deprecated

Senator Hale threatens to move fornight sessions unless the Senate talksand works more In other wordsthe gas is shut off it will be turned on

Gen Harries nnd CongressWashington Herald Is moved to

make a few remarks about Its very woodfriend Gen George H HarrIos It Ifkashim It wishes him and his enterpriseswell He is a gentlemen of push andambition and action just the sort ofgentleman that contributes to the ma-terial uplift of any community

The best of us make slips now andwould not be human if we did

not but a slip made by Gen Harries atthe District Committee hearing on Thursday was especially unhappy and

It was all but unpardonable Indeed because It recorded a statement sowidely at variance with

Gen Harries In a moment of heat wearc sure asserted that a railway fran-chise in Washington was rendered valuelees or words to that effect because Itwas constantly subject to attack Thinkof it Such franchises are worth mil-

lions and everybody knows CongressIs not composed of a lot of PopulistsThere has been no tearing down of property rights say vested rights if you pre-

fer and there is going to be no suckthing There is ito place on the face ofthe earth where such rights are more se-

cure where they are less harried or lessoppressed Here there has been no op-

pression at all TIM street railway intere tsnd we say it to the credit of Con-

gress have scrupulously been conservedCongress uniformly has dealt in a con-

servative way with District corporationsthough by way of digression it may beadd d that It has erred sadly in not put-

ting the gas company on the same honestbasis with the other utilities corporations

Such a statement as that to which GenHarries gave utterance was wholly un-

worthy of him It was unjust to Con-

gress He shoukl not have said it Congress lots a perfect right to look Intooperation of the public utilities It wouldbe remiss if it neglected that duty

Gen Harries sensible gentlementhat he Is does not challenge that rightThe part of wisdom is to invite suchhearings and Inquiries

The street railway which Gen Harriesso ably and usually so diplomaticallyand tactfully represents has not beenhurt is not going to be hurt Congress hi

not in the business of destroying propcities or striking down capital

There Is something the matter withthe Washington Street Railway howeverGen Harries Is confronted with It every-

day His system is magniacent hut hisschedules are disgracefully awry Thatswhats the matter with the companythat and nothing else Congress nor MrMadden has had a blessed thing to dowith the public feeling on the subject

And the sooner our good and genial

friend Gen George H Harriesthe right point of view the better it will

be for his part of the best street railwayysemas a wholeln the United States

Let reformers proceed says the SaltLake Tribune They are proeeedtaf

Indiana legislature which seeks to makeI horse traders mUfest

A Victim of CircumstancesA prominent organization of Chicago

club women protests against Shakespeares Seven Ages of Man upon theground that it completely Ignores the ex-

istence of woman and makes no refer-

ence directly or indirectly to her as acomponent factor in the proper exempli-

fication of the storyThe criticism Is captious unfair and

totally lacking in merit and humane con-

sideration for Shakespeare With trulyfeminine contrariness the ladles abso-lutely ignore the embarrassing limitationsunder which Shakespeare labored and thepeculiar environments by which he washeld in check It is not at all probablethat Shakespeare meant any harm orwas lacking in that quality of chivalrylatest in nearly all manly breasts Hewas simply a creature of circumstanceso far as his writings wont and he wascompelled whether unwillingly or no toobserve a rigid and fixed rule somethings

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The Chicago protestants shouldthat the discussion eC a age te a

serious piece of business under any andall circumstances especially alter she haspassed her seventeenth summer Toenunciate the first and second ages ofwoman in song or story no matter howbeautiful and poetic the language em-ployed would be as much as any manof careful thought could be induced toundertake Those who essayed to domoro would do so at the peril of theirreputation for veracity and their charac-ter for saneness

To add to the perplexities of Shakesponies undertaking his work passedconstantly under the eagle eye of thatsomewhat uncertain find erratic Queen ofthe time in England Elizabeth wasnotoriously vain and haughty

at the height of Shakespeares tameand renown she had begun to grow old andfaded To elaborate upon the subject ofa ladys age in her august and royalpresence was perhaps as much as oneshead was worth Shakespeares headwas at that time one of the worlds greatest lIterary assets and he was right totake no chances with his regal mistresshis head much more comfortablyplaced upon his shoulders than besidethe block at Newgate or the Tower

Therefore all in all the latHes shouldnot be too hard on poor William Hedid the best he could by theta we haveno doubt as the light was given him tosee in those days It was dire necessity

a not unnatural love for his headthat caused him to tell the story of theSeven Ages of Man withou reference-

to the women Instead condemninghim he should ba commended for maklag so wise a use of his opportunities

TIM Atlanta Journal says that 258newspaper are reporting the Thawtrial What has the Journal againstnewspaper men that It so severelyindicts them

My dear boy said Senator Beveridgeto Senator Carmack Aw quit your kid-ding Senator

What does the Philadelphia Recordmean by coilIng it the restlessWe fan to note anything restless aboutit On the contrary It is about the mostselfsatisfied and calm thing we know of

Things are In a pretty mesa out at Mc-Alester lad T There aro two dailypapers In the Republican theother Democratic The Democratic organis edited by a rank Republican while theRepublican organ is edited by an oldline

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Democrat and the result Is a row duringthe progress of which all of the politicalskeletons of both parties seem likely toget out of the closets

The new Shah of Persia has ordered afew more rebellious heads chopped oftHe seems to have quite an elegant littleblock system of his own

The London Globe thinks Swettonhamnot wholly to blame No indeedNature just made him that way

The Now York legislature is consider-ing a bill to help lawyers Will no onecome to the rescue of tho clients

The Russian government manages tohold together but one by one the minis-

ters and officials go to places

And now the musicians demand thatthe copyright laws be amended to meettheir point of view Considering the re-

venge they may take In case of non-compliance we should advise Congragaby all means to give them what theywant

Mme Melba says that stage folks shouldsat plenty Of fruit and vegetables Tint

audience is not requested to contributethem however-

It is said that the New York street carswill double their currying capacity Thisprobably meant that the passengers willnow be allowed to climb on top tho carsand ride

Mr Hall CalM says ho pays no atten-tion to the critics And souse of the foolthings h says would seem to hoar out

jQM idea that he certainly does not

Little Neck Island wants tochange its name Having in mind theclams that come from that locality weshould suggest Rubber Neck

The expedition sent to Africa by theField Columbian Museum of Chicago hassecured a live specimen of the DlkdlkBeat the tomtom and raise Harry

Henry James declares that Americanwomen cannot talk Evidently he nevertried to convince one oc thorn that It wasreally an important session of the lodgethat kept Isbn down town so late

A New York man died of swollen head-a few days ago As rule this troubleta not fatal to the sufferer but the neigh-bors are frequently bored to death as aresult of it

The Birmingham News says Use Kingstan earthquake Tightened the people somuch that chUte ran up and down tapirbacks A sort of chills and fever stke

With an Oliver and a Cromwell bothmixed up in the Panama Canal we tearthere Is to be no rest for Senator Morgan

All this bother about a Thaw jury is aplate waste of time Several New Yorknewspapers are trying the case just sfast as they can

An antirachur law would be worsethan an earthquake a cyclone and eonAlteration say a writer in a Hot SpringsArk paper Evidently the race problem

has its terrors for Hot Springs also

In looking over the list of late fictionthe Birmingham AgeHerald expressesregret that much of it was not too latefor publication It also makes one focilike going out and tending a helping handto the pallbearers-

A German statistician has discoveredthat a great majority of the hello girlsover there suffer with nervous prostra-tion The prostration of a hello girlsnerve must be something startling

A Kentucky minister preached threehours on the topic Hell te here andnow He doubtless thoroughly con-

vinced We congregation

The tllstres 1nn news te given out thatAlfred Austin Is writing a poem on theJamaican earthquake Are all the freakBngltehmea to take a hand ia that boil

The lion Jeffrie Davis the Sen-ate shall not Muff him into silence asit did TlUman However when MrDavis gets ready to call the Semites btahe will be wise to watch out for tin lit-

tle Joker

Swettenbam fa a type notes a con-

temporary it weak be momnearly correct to call hint a pled JIM

The announcement is made that therecent earthquake will not curtail theoutput of Jamaica rum Certainly nothad the earthquake had any hostile in-

tentions toward this particular rum output it wou2 not have wasted time foolingaround Jamaica

Two of our versatile highwaymen heldup a musician and ordered him tomarch says the St Louis Republic liedoubtless did a quickstep instantly

Mr H H Rogers jr is organizing acompany but as it te only a mHitia oom

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A few more such victories and FmperorWilliam will come to be known ns theGeorge B Corteiyou of European campaign conductors

Notwithstanding Mr Rockefeller a decla-ration that he has seen much of the goodin the world but little ef the evil Itmust be confessed that the InterstateCommerce Commission shows a remark-able willingness to enlighten him as tomuch of the

No one should be surprised to learn thatMiss Ida Tarbell writes dialect SincetIM exploitation of Miss Gertrude Athertons second best CaJIferniaasa nothingthe lady writers may write or sayis calculated to shock sevtroly

It appears that Carter Harrison is torun for mayor of Chicago again Themystery Is how that office has managedto wabble along without Carter Har-rison to hold it for the past yearor so anyhow

Dryden or nobody is the cry of thecompact Dryden forces in New JerseyNew York ought to be ablo to toll Jerseybow it feels to be represented by no-body

With the people of Tennessee for thejury I will risk my fate any time andfor all time before them says Senatorelect Bob Taylor The jury hasnt beeninvented that can successfully withstandthe pleadings of his fiddle and his bow

If Harry Thaw looks at all thesketches and rends all tho rot printed

about hint In the New York yellows hemay not think be Is crazy but must won-der why he Isnt

A Kentucky contemporary says thebane of the State legislature Is the potmeasure Lets see the pet measure ofthe average Kentucky legislator is probably about a quart

Hound to Astonish HimFret FHiRMtf BlMUcr

Waiter at mountain hotel sotto voceBlase wretch He says our mountainsarent high enough calls the lake a paddie and he hasnt any oyos for the ex-

quisite panorama from the balcony ButIm going to give him his bill now thatwill astonish him

Also ainny TrialsFront tb Cohmbk Sate

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A LITTLE NONSENSE

INCOMPARABLE PAIROh the chap with padded shoulders

in the of the magazineYouve noticed those human boulders and

tholr massive points I weenAnd isnt he quite perfection with his

chest and its spanIn making a fair selection do you think

you could match this man

Then that other wellknown torture whois doing a silent stunt

I to that perfect creature the girlIn the sweet straight front

You may talk If you think it duty tillthe night comes on apace

But where will ydu find such beauty andwhere will you find such grace

You will kindly save your blushes this isnothing a prude to sears

I am not of the kind that gushes I wouldmerely just declare

We shall see a perfect mating tillthe padded chap

The fellow of whom Im prating weds thogirl in the corset ad

Annoying-Do you ever laugh at a real good

JokeNoreplied the professional humorist

It makes me mad think that I didntthink of it myself

TrrnM liver TItusAnd how do you like heftvda Find

things pretty complete here sITStem to be ButWellWheres the complaint desk1 Would They DareThere Mr Taft a mail of emft

A person trim and nattySome call him Bill in axees shrill

Do say call him F ylThe Ideal

A stop subsidy hey snorted good skiFarmer Frtedpie Well I guess notSome people to alter waatte autIsm feautIsm By the wayr AIlntMlr ftlnt awCongressman a mite slow this yearwith our seed

A BreakI committed a terrible breach of

todayHow was that-I was Invited by a whisky to

drink and mbeemrnlndedJy called aaether brand than his

Antl KcepN m Waltixiff-Bven the Venus of the boardinghouse

falls Into disfavor when she putt ta twohours sad thirtyseven minutes at herSunday morning bath

NOTHING SERIOUS

Vmm PUbeffeafaJfoooKsnry to Consider

Theres too much deceitful tiflt a tfciworld said Mrs Kandor I think Ifone man has anything to say about an-

other be should conAn himself to thetruth

B tM said Mr Kandor MpotM Ulanare Indian present r

Front PapaWhat lovely black eyes site has

Yes indeed hereditary you knowAh her mother-

o her father he was a pugilistTho Fight

No said Mtos Pay with a deter-mined air I shall never marry that krinevitably fixed

Yon put In Miss Pepprey totcourse you will eoattaue to atmejsleagainst the inevitable with your usualpluck

That Queere HintAscuui Your friend Popeeys wff nod

Hewitt T believe they hate me Theywill never forgive me because Popteynamed hi first boy after me-

A IJnniJnic ShameOne Important thing about these ci-

gars said Stfnglinan aweed to his visitor Is that they hut so

Do they really asked his vMfcerholding his at arms length or nose Itmerely seem tone

A KillJoyWe corns near lynehtn the wrong spin

yesterday said Cactus Cal Just readyto swing him off too

But Just then you discovered the mis-take eh remarked the tourist Whatluck

Wnxnt It though The worst I everhear tell of

SENATOR BACON FOR LEADER

Hi Home Paper Proposes Him an3Ir Bniiey Snccctsor

Fran uWMMee 1Mc M hReports from Washington Indicate that

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Lone before his experience ta the Senatebegan Senator Bacon wop his spurs as aparliamentarian having served severalterms as speaker of the Georgia house ofrepresentatives For years he has beenregarded as an authority on parliamen-tary law Tactful and able as a debaterhe will prove a worthy foeman of thebest talent on the Republican side

More than this In these days of radi-calism run mad In both political partiesSenator Bacon would be Justly conspicu-ous as a minority leader for his conserv-atism He is one of the few left whostand hard and fast by the best traditionsof the old Democratic party and by theprinciples enunciated in the beginning bythe fathers of the republic Hip steadyhand is against the extremer phases ofRoosevelttsm on the one hand sail Popu-lism ac accentuated by Watson AndHearst on the other

His many friends and admirers inGeorgia would be pleased to see him putforward as the minority leader by hisDemocratic colleagues

Secretary Hitchcock VorlcK-KMI tin New York Sue

From Senator Carters point ofMr Hitchcocks relentless pursuitgrafters land grabbers conspiratorsand looters of the public domain is an un-just and indefensible reflection upon thecharacter of fifteen millions of peopleInhabiting fourteen States and three Ter-ritories We dont set the matter in anysuch lIght and we doubt very muchwhether say one else will look uponthat way

Salary GrabbingFran nw PUMttpbfc r Ufc Larfger

The bookkeeper timidly approachedIt you please he said I would like

a raise of payYou too fairly moaned the capitalistSay do you want to sink to the moral

level of a Congressman I wont be aparty to your downfall

Troubled DigestionFMM INmtntid Btu

While CoatOb I had the most herrWe dream last night about beingby lions tiger and elephants

Papa Goat If I catch you eating any-more of those circus posters Ill buttwell

TenderProm the Levhrfve O mfcr JammL

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CAPITOL GOSSIPAn Extra SeaMlonf

About this time every two years lookout for talk of an extra session of Congross Washington is used to it andWashington for reasons that need not beexplained is always in favor of an ex-

tra session But Washington pays littleheed to the usual rumors because an ex-

tra session is a rare occurrence whiletalk that usually takes the form of pos-

itive prediction is confidently expectednear the close of every short sesstonIn view of the fact however that pri-

vate secretaries of Senators and Bepre-

sentativas and Congressional clerks ga-

lore are now eagerly seeking direct Information on this biennial speculationit may be well to give something morethan ordinary heed to the rumor of anextra session Newspaper men at theCapitol yesterday were besieged by pri-

vate secretaries clerks and other Congrossional employee for information onthe subject Obviously the inquirershave received hints of the possibility ofthe new Congress being called here bythe President at an early date after the4th of March Senators and Repre-sentatives deny all knowledge of anysuch purpose on the part of the Presi-dent but sometimes Senators and Repre-sentatives assume an attitude of utterignorance and Indifference when it isknown that in doing so they are onlyplaying the part or statesmanship Probably the rumor of an extra session is asgroundless as It nearly always is but thefact that Congressional employes areanxiously inquiring about It is possiblysignificant

Colorados Senatcralect Use Hon SimonGuggenheim was escorted to Ute chamberof his future activities cud mayhap gloryby Senator Patterson yesterday It sohappened that the ilrsuoonscript father towhom he was Introduced was Mr Moneyof Mississippi who in defiance of theoriginal relationship between nomencla-ture and its bearer recently embraced anopportunity In a Senate debate to declarethe belief that he is the poorest memberof the body Colorados Senatorelectsmfliogiy informed Money that he hadbeard of hint before said was

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with his recordThe next Senator to whom the Senator

elect was presented was Mr Tillinao whohad heard of him before la his min-strel speech Mr TUhnaa spoke of the

sons of Smiling Tom Patterson ofColorado the State recently bought atauction by one Guggenheim

Mr Patterson evidently raaUxtng the

perienced hastened to convoy Us succes-sor over to the Republican side of thechamber to show them what they hadgot as he afterward remarked-

It was when Mr Guggenheim gotwedged in between the portly Mr Udnsof West Virginia and the ponderous MrKtttrodge of South Dakota that the df-

mtatttehess of his stature was empfeasfaed He then appeared to weighabout a hundred pounds and to be proba-bly as tall as five feet His height seemsto be Just about that of Mr Alice of Del-aware of whom President Pro TemporeFrye once declared that when the Delaware statesman addressed the chair hecouldnt tell whether be was standing upoc sitting down

Mulkcy CommitteelcHHOwing to the invariable fonT

of William Alden Smith the Hon Fred-erick W Mulkey whp ta to serve theState of Oregon in the Senate for about

4 will have no eonuntttee chairmanshipSenator Hale in the performance of agrave public duty arose from his seat

yesterday soon after the Senate had metand reading from a slip of paper an-nounced that it was the wish and pleasureof the Senate that Oregons shorttermSenator be made chairman of the Com-

mittee to Examine and Dispose of UselessPublic Documents which had been heldby the Senators Democratic prede-cessor Mr Geartn The statesman fromMaine had scarcely resumed his seat be-

fore he rose again and with the samegravity asked that the name of Mr Mulkey be not entered upon the enduringrolls of the Senate as chairman of theCommittee to Examine and Dispose ofUseless Public Documents thereby creat-ing a situation which excited great concern in the vigilant press gallery

Investigation revealed an interestingconcatenation of circumstances MrGearins retirement to give place to MrMulkey had left the only vacant chair-manship among the Senate committeesThe only other vacancy that had existedwas that of the great Committee onVentilation and Acoustics which wasquickly fluid when Mr Du Pont ofDelaware was invested with the toga ASenator without a chairmanship te almostas bad oft as a statesmen out of a Joband the Senate has seen to It that thiscould not occur by creating Just as manycommittees as there are Senators AfterMr Hale had made the announcementwhich was intended to provide the Ore-gonian with a chairmanship and a committeeroom he learned that Hon Wil-liam Alden Smith Senatorelect and Sinatorexpectant before he left Washingtonto attend the funeral of the late GenAlger whom he has been elected to uc-ceed for the regular term bad askedthat the chairmanship of the Com-

mittee to Examine and Dispose of UselessPublic Documents be reserved for him ashe expected that the Michigan legislaturenow in session would elect him to nil outthe unexpired part of lea AlgerV term

Congress hears n HumorIn the cloakrooms of both the Senate

and House an interesting rumor pertaining to the selection of Prof Watootfssuccessor as Chief of the Geological Survey is being quietly whispered aboutProf Watoott recently was appointed tosucceed the late S P Langley as head ofthe Smithsonian Institution In the directline of succession to him as Chief of theGeological Survey are two or three scien-tists who count on promotion ButCongress understands that none of theseIs to be chosen by the appointing powerbut that the place is to go to J StanleyBrown soninlaw of the late President

and of course brotherinlaw ofthe popular Ohio statesman who soon willsucceed the veteran Ethan Allen Hitchcock as Secretary of the Interior of whichdepartment the Geological Survey is a de-tached bureau

In evidence of J Stanley Browns quali-fications for this important post it Ispointed out that he was a stenographer inthe Geological Survey when a young manand before he became the husband of aPresidents daughter that he also afterward studied geology in Germany andthat for some time and until a compara-tively recent date he was employed in animportant confidential capacity by Edward H Harriman the great railroadgiant

Champ Clark on MudChamp Clark created indignation in the

New England House delegation in gen-

eral yesterday send that of Massachusettsta particular by solemnly asseveratingttUs

Enough mud is carried from theirbanks annually by the Missouri and Mis-sissippi rivers to make a State of theUnion bigger than Massachusetts andmaybe a better one too

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SUBSIDIES TO SHIPPING

Some Adverse Press Comment on thePending Llttauer Bill

Vnm the Ohio St te JournalIt is a real disappointment to very many

that the President should give the weightof his great Influence in behalf of the subsidy bill now before the House While thepurpose which he has in view may in hisopinion be in line with the material advantage we look upon the scheme as unexpense that might bo avoided if theDingley law was shorn of Us oppressiveexactions and MeKinleys doctrine ofreciprocity was introduced as the policy ofthe nation It was to be hoped that Pres-

ident Roosevelt would have maintained hisformer view In relation to revision andpressed that instead of a subvention torecover and maintain the South Americanand Asiatic trades It is quite certain thatsubsidy will fail and that revision will bethe recourse to which this nation willhave to come at last

From the Nor York WwW

It is a significant coincidence that theshipsubsidy bill now pending in theHouse effectually reserves to the Harri-man steamship lines all subsidies providedfor lines running to the Orient and SouthAmerica from points south of Caps Mendodno in California The HarrimansteamsHips are already in operation to Ja-pan and China and those now running toPanama will only need to call at SouthAmerican ports farther south With ab-

solute control of the railroad traffic onland the Harriman interests should beequally secure on the Pacific against com-

petition for both ocean trafflo and govern-

ment subsidies

Finn the 8fxfa M IlnmbHcaPresident Roosevelt Is a man at least

of good sense and good common understahding Yet he violates both in his mes-sage on ship subsidies Common sense ismocked by the contention for examplethat we should maintain tariff taxesagainst trade with South America andthen use the tax revenue for subsidies toaid ia overcoming the effects of the taxesIt ta desirable to maintain a fast and reg-

ular man service with leading SouthAmerican ports but even this degree ofsubsidy should be preceded or accom-plished by the liberalization of our taxtaws upon foreign trade

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Fraa UM New York Bmihrc PoetIt can scarcely help the subsidy bill to

have Congress know that two of the shipsto which a present ta proposed are thepersonal property of B H HarrimanThis fact was brought out yesterday atthe heating in San Prandseo It wasknown of course that Harriman throughthe Southern Pacific controlled the Pa-cific Mall but it was not known that hepersonally owned the Mongolia and Man-churia and charged the company ttlf9 amonth for their use Perhaps be wouldcharge less If be got Isle subsidy

The whole question to a very simpletonsDebate it as we may It all comes to thishi the end shH we remove the causewhich has hampered American shippingor shall we try to overcome the effect bytaxing Use whole nation for the benefit ofa few men The talk about naval re-

serve aad man subventions is apart fromthe real issue These are but subterfugesto hide a new raid upon the Treasury ThePresident ta badly advised ia lending him-self to such a ackennt-

ana the CUnse OannliliSubsidy Is not necessary Beuldoc it

has a bad same There have beset seandais connected with it whenever we havetried it and scandals are liable to be con-nected with it again It is Justly unpop-ular

VICTIM OF CIRCUMSTANCES

The Senate Necessarily Conwervntlvcnnd So Object of Prejudicethe 1iutMM JoaraaL

Circumstances have placed the Senatein the light of the obedient instrument-of the money power the strongholdo the trusts the rich mans club theoligarchy which would overthrow realdemocratic government Applied to individual Senators such charges may beplainly absurd There are conscientiousconservatives among them convincedradicals as well poor men end rich anddoubtless the standardrof personal hon-

esty ta as high in tjte Senate as in anysimilar body of legislators The troubleto that what may be the patriotic re-

luctance of the Senate as a whole tot to legislation that it really deems

dangerous ta so intermingled with thedislike of some Senators ft r anythingsavoring of attack upon great commercialinterests with which they are intimatelyallied that an undiscriminating public

quick to impute sordid motives Allaround And every time a rich capital-ist practically buys a seat in the Senatethe charge that the upper house is thechampion of unjust privilege is more andmore widely accepted as true

Even were this charge baseless evenwere the motives of every Senator be-

yond suspiciqn there would still be someground for the prejudice which manifestsitself at every turn An ideal Senatewould still have to risk unpopularitywhile it performed its obvious duty ofchecking the first impulse of resentmentagainst abuses An upper house is neces-sarily A conservative body and It mustoften insist on a calmer investigation ofconditions then irritated and impetuouspublic sentiment wishes to admit Thatis perhaps the principal reason why theSenate should stand so high In the gen-

eral esteem that even resentment willnever turn to distrust Popular as thePresident is it may be fairly assumedthat he could not win so easily over theSenate on every occasion were the mo-

tives of Senators less open to suspicion

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glance makes thiS quailIt does indeed sire replied the hap

knight And I only to remindyour majesty that by the wise lawswhich your majesty hath deigned to de-cree for tho governance of this mostfortunate realm it Is now the dosedseason for quail

For the brave Sir Lancelot though firstand foremost a warrior did not scruplein an emergency to employ his nlmblowit

Where the Pins Gothe New York Mill

Three thousand microbes can occupy thespace An a single pin point according tothe Washington Herald This answers theold What becomes of all the pinsquestion The microbes eat em up-

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The Washington Herald declares thatthere are not enough heiresses to go

round now Well they are going as fastas thoy MIn aint they

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AT THE HOTELSinteresting guest of the Jfew Wfflard-

is Mr J O McCormick editor of theXonia Ohio Gazette who has been con-

nected with that famous old newspaperfor thirty years

Mr McCormick who is a gentleman oftho old school and an accomplished

man was born and grew up in thetown of Lawroneeburj Ind and he antiSenator Spooner were schoolmates andplayfellows In that village in their earlyyouth Just across the fig Miami Riveronly a couple of miles away but oa theOhio aide lived young Harrison anIhe often canto to Lawrenceburg to Jointhe Spooner and McCormick lads at mar-bles and ball The same village was like-

wise the home of exGov Albert G Por-ter and oxGov DurWn m their young

daysWhenXenla was merely a little ham-

let said Mr McCormick and I thinkwithout a name tradition says that awandering Englishman passing throughit fell sick and would have died but forsome of the kindhearted settlers whogave him shelter and nursing On recov-ering he told his good friends that hewould like to name their little placeXenla from the Greek word meaninghospitality and it has been celled

since It has produced some menwho have achieved national fame Beforemy newspaper career began WhtteiawReid and Preston B Plumb later a Kansas Senator were associates in a papercalled the News The News was ab-sorbed by the Torchlight which wasedited by the versatile Conies KInneywho wrote that nevertobeforgottenpoem Rain on the Roof Another Xeniaman who afterward became famous asthe most brilliant paragmaher tot tfieUnited States was Harry Merrick whodied In Washington a few years la-

mented by thousands

I have been rather agreeably sur-prised said Mr Wffllam H Hansonwho tejjseociated with a Mg tailoring es-

tablishment of New York to find somany Washington men who dine te even-ing dress In fact the swallowtail coatseems quite as much in evidence at theCapital after C p as in New York inproportion to population

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in tb Mg hotels ofthose and other Western towns a ma-jority of them sit down to dinner ta thsack or frock coat that they have beerswearing during business hours I willsay however that the ladies of the abovenamed places are not so careless and thebeautiful and appropriate evening cos-tumes they appear in are rebuke toslovenly dress of their husbands brothersand sweethearts The Western womenare according to my observation quitas punctilious In the matter of correctclothes as their sisters In the East andIt te to b hoped that sooner or later thewill get their men folks to pay a littlemore attention to the conventionalities

Three prominent citizens of LoudounCounty Va Hon Henry Fairfax E BWhite and F S Lutz were seen In theNew Wlllard last evening Mr Fairfaxis one of the best known tonal in the OldDominion and on his beautiful stock farmnear Leesburg be breeds a class of horsesthat never fan to bring topnotch pricesin New York City He was formerly inthe State senate and not long since wasa member of the corporation commis-sion Mr White ig president of the Peo-ples National Bank and a young man ofhighest social and business standing MrLutz who has a pretty home in thesuburbs of Leesburg is a native Washingtooian who in love wIth the rurallife of old Loudoun which he declares Isimmensely superior to existence In anybig city

mont in refusing to issue patents to settlens on the public lands saM MA

Thorpe a cattleman of Loak Wyoat the New WUlard

This policy It maintained I feargreatly retard the settlement of th a

Western country and it will do my ownState of Wyoming serious injury Whenliomerteaders taU to get their patentsnot through any fault of their own theybecame discouraged and many of themleave never to return One of the reasonsof the great emigration from the UnitedStates to the Canadian Northwest is theliberality of the Dominion land laws Instead of discouraging settlers the Cana-dians hold out every inducement to getpeople and they are building up theircountry at our expense

Being In the business of breeding cattie I might from a selfish standpointapplaud the action of the government forthe abandonment of their holdings by tiefarmers extends the ranges of the stockmen but I want to see the State becomesettled wtth a large number of thriftyagriculturists since that is the only wayto get a permanent population and createa prosperous Commonwealth

Mesrs S H Eagle ofGalttpoUa Onto H C Johnston formerspoakar pro tempore of the Ohio Viegtelatare and R H Mack sloe of that townare at the New Wiltard

Messrs J B Mitchell and D

the latter superintendent Of the cityschools of Winnipeg and the former archi-tect for the schools are at the Raleigh

Winnipeg said Mr Mitchell hisdoubled its population the last fivryears sad has now people We artdoing very well in the matter of local education but areJn of someschool buildings and Mr McIntyre nn1myself were delegated to come to severalof your larger cities to see the kind ofbuildings in which the school children arehoused We are having the same tremen-dous business activity m Manitoba thatprevails in the States and our railroadsare just as impotent to handle the trafficas yours appear to be

Former Gov John H McOVaw ofthe State of Washington who Is at theNew Willard is elated over the recent ac-

tion of the senate of his State in passing-an appropriation of 1000019 for the AlaskaYukon Pacific Exposition Helower house will follow suit and the billwill speedily become a law

We have an independent telephonecompany in Los Angeles that proved agreat success said Mr Thomas WPhillips a prominent business man ofthat progressive city at the Arlington

When we began operations three orfour years ago the old company foughtus in every conceivable way People werewarned against investing in the new con-cern and told that they would lose everydollar they put In In spite of this manyof the solid citizens backed their judg-ment with their cash and they are nowvery glad of It for they have been hand-somely rewarded The independent tele-phones are now in use in Los Angeles tothe number of 90000 and they do per-cent of the business One peat advan-tage they possess over the old phones isthe doing away with the hello girls theindependent instrument being automaticenabling the patrons to call up directlythe person with whom conversation is de

siredThe rates are very reasonable too 3

a month for private subscribers and 15

for hotels and efitees with individual linesfor each patron and an unlimited numberof calls

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