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talnly has had that effect. whether intentional or not. "Interest in President's utterances so far overshadows attention to the governor's words that there can hardly be any comparison. Around the Republican Club a story is being related with great circumstantiality of detail. I do not pretend to vouch for it, 1 r.

not on the waiting list for admission to the Ananais Club. I will simply repeat it as a piece of the political of the day. As the story "story" may be used Roosevelt recently told a prominent New York republican to go back to New York and tell the anti-Taft people that if they don't take Taft they will have to take Roosevelt. Many of the politicians don't believe the story, but it has made the gooseflesh break out on some of the others. N.

O. M. LAW GOVERNING VAGRANTS RECOMMENDATION TO CONGRESS BY COMMISSIONERS. Statute in Force Not What Is by Former Senator Stewart. It is said to be likely that during the present session of Congress the Commissioners will urge the enactment of a law governing vagrants in the District of Columbia.

It is explained that in reality there is no real vagrancy law in force in the Dist'ict. What is generally supposed to be a vagrancy law is one which provides for the arrest of persons of ill repute and thos" who known to the police to habitual drunkards. The police say that only recently a man known to be a habitual loafer was arrested on a of vagrancy, and the case wa3 thrown out when it reached the Police Court because of a lack of evidence. The corporation counsel will be ask by the Commissioners to point out thi weak places in the present so-called vagrancy law and suggest of remedyin tr it. The necessity for a more stringent vagrancy law in this city, to rid it of loafers, has ben suggested to the Commissioners by William M.

Stewart, former senator from Nevada. Need of Drastic Law. In his communication Senator Stewart says: "The conditions in the city of Washington require a drastic vagrant law. Women are constantly robbed Jn every part of the city. After dark they are so frequently knocked down, robbed and left senseless that it is unsafe for them to go on public streets, even in the business parts of Washington.

The trouble comes from the great number of vagabonds that hang about low groggeries, alleys and disreputable resorts. These idlers will not work at any price, hut prey upon the community. It is Impossible for the police, if the number were doubled, to watch the criminal vagabonds that infest the city. "I beg leave to suggest to your commission that you call attention of Congress to the need of a vagrant law, under which all idlers who cannot give a satisfactory account of themselves be condemned to. work for the District.

Let them grade the streets, make roads in the parks and anything else that may be necessary and useful. The only hope of reformation for the loafers who swarm in the city is labor in the open air. Ninety days of hard labor in the open air will do much to improve tfie condition of any vagabond; if ninety days is not enough give him six months to regain his normal condition. I am satisfied that Congress desires the capital of the nation to be a safe place for respectable people to live, and that will furnish such legislation as you may require to rid the city of the loafing, criminal element, which endanger life and property. AN EXECUTIVE ORDER.

KTo Temporary Appointments Except From Civil Service List. President Roosevelt has issued an executive order that prohibits temporary in government departments without first having the sanction of the civil service commission. It has been a practice of several of the departments to All vacancies arising and notifying ttie commission afterward as to the action taken, The Treasury Department has followed this rule for a long time. Under the new order the departments will first have to ask the civil service commission for a certification of persons who will accept temporary work. If the commission cannot suppiy this certification the department must get the consent of the commission to make appointments independent of civil service requirements.

It Is considered that the practically stops temporary appointments except from the civil service eligible lists. QUIZZING CENSUS CLERKS. Former Director Merriam Advises Special Examinations for Big Force. In response to an invitation. W.

R. Merriam, who was director of the twelfth census, appeared today before the House committee on census to make recommendations to the taking of the census of 1910. On account of the number of clerks that will be who will be employed from one to tihree years? Mr. Merriam advised that they be not subjected to the regular civil service examinations. but that the director of thirteenth S.

N. D. North, prepare special examinations to be conducted under the direction of the civil service commission. Monthly Circulation Statement. The monthly circulation statement issued by the controller of the currency today showed that at the dose of business January 31.

the total outstanding circulation of rational bank notes was an increase for the year of and an increase for the month of The circulation, based on United States amounted to 1641.019. H04, an increase for the year of $02,221 and a decrease for the month of $1,540,235. The amount of circulation secured by lawful money was 9.1"-. an Increase for the year of and an increase for the month of M.M2, 2. The amount of bonds o.i deposit secure circulation.

Including in pe- em Treasury rtific.ites. was and to secure public dejHisits To Take Census of Timber. The House committee on cansus was asked yesterday by Gilford Pincliot, chief of the forestry bureau; James K. Smith, secretary of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association; Gaorgf: Lalanne, president of the National Board of Trade, and F. Underbill, vice president of the National Retail Lumber Dealers' As-i sociatlon, to recommend to the House of Representatives the pa.ss.ige of a biii appropriating $250,000 for tiie taking this year of a census of the standing timber in the I'nited lirst proIKiaa' of the kind ever made to Congress.

Mr. Pinehot in-formed tJie committee thai at the present rate consumption? one hundred billion feet a timber resources of the United States, including forest reserves, will be entirely ex- hausted in twenty years without refor- estation. Tobacco for the Navy. ThO Navy Department has awarded to Bowker Co. of Virginia the contract for supplying about 100,000 pounds of tobacco to the navy during the year 190S.

The pries agreed upon is cents per pound, which is one-half cent a pound more than the present contract price. Bowker Co. are new competitors for this contract. They have agreed to furnish the best quality of chewing and smoking tobacco. (Continued from First tton was in progress behind the big oaken doors.

After the arrest of the man who afterward gave his name as Roosevelt Pell, the amateur tennis Justice Dowling immediately began ms ruling as to holding Thaw in custody thirst addressing the jurors, he thanken them for their work and he had no doubt they had discharged their duties to the entire satisfaction of their own consciences. Then turning to the de ant and his counsel Justice Dowling said. Ruling of the Court. "The only testimony In this case upon which a verdict of Insanity could be based was to the cfTect that the defendant is suffering from a maniac-depresEive form of mental derangement. This testimony and the diagnosis of the form of insanity was based upon prior outbreaks ot the defendant, as testified to by witnesses from.

London. Monte Carlo, I hi is and Albany. "It also appears from the testimony, and the court was careful to inquire as to this, that recurrences of these attacks are reasonably certain. There has been no testimony adduced here to show that a person suffering from this form of insanity ever can be permanently cured. It appears, however, that during the maniacal form of the disease the person suffering therefrom is likely to commit dangerous assaults or murder.

There is danger also of suicide. Therefore, upon all the testimony in this case, the court deems that to allow the defendant to go flt large would be to the nubile safety. The decision of the court is that the defendant shall not now be diseharKed. but being in custody shall be so held, and committed with all disnatch to the state hospital for the crim'nal insane at Matteawan. The sheriff of the county is directed to take custody of the defendant and deliver him to the state authorities at Matteawan.

The law provides that once a defendant found not with the lnsanitj clause may rot again have life placed in jeotxirdy. So soon as Thaw can convince a commission specially appointed for his examination or the state of lunacy, as may be the case, that he is sane and no longer to be regarded as a menace to the public safety he will be given his liberty. Mother Is Thankful. It is said District Attorney Jerome would personally oppose any move for the liberation of Thaw, either at the-preset time or at any time in the future. Mr.

Littleton announced In court that he desired to except from the court's ruling. Justice Dowling said he would allow the attorneys until 3 p.m. to consult as to whether or not they would sue out a writ of habeas corpus to have Thaw sanity tested at once by a commission or to have him confined to a private Institution. Thaw's family were pleased with the verdict and declared it was the best they had hoped for. They are.

particularly anxious, however, that Thaw shall be taken to a private asylum or some other hospital under state direction than the one for criminal insane. Mrs. William Thaw received at the uptown hotel where she has been stopping the news of her son's acquittal. She was called to the telephone as the jury filed into court and held there until William Moore of Mr. Peabody's office could tell the tidings to her over the wire.

Thaw Was Unmoved. Thaw showed no other emotion than the characteristic smile which' so often has played his Hps. Ills wife flushed a deep red as Foreman Gremmels stated that a verdict had been reached. She was confident, however, and when the final announcement came she glanced quickly at her husband and smiled enthusiastically Thaw was recalled from the custody of his Tombs guard when Justice Dowling granted the delay in executing the order of commitment. Mrs.

Thaw had brought his luncheon down to him in her automobile, and it had been the Tombs, as usual. The repast was sent for and Thaw and li wife ate together in an anteroom of the court chamber. where he had twice stood trial for his first, jury having disag.eed 7 to 5 for conviction. Besides saying informally that she was pleased at the verdict, young Mrs. Thaw made no statement at the courthouse.

Thaw sent word he had nothing to atThe'Sjurors Interviewed at the would not divulge the secrets of their proceedings, other than to say that fourteen ballots were required before the unanimous verdict not guilty on the ground of insanity was reached. Jury orn Out. After having argued and balloted all night long in the stufTy little jury room adjoining the chamber of the criminal branch of the supreme court, the Thawjurors this morning heartily welcomed their release from confinement, when shortly before 8 o'clock they were taken uptown to breakfast. Several of the jurymen are well along in years, and the all-night session seemed to have gone badly with them. Their faces were drawn and "tense, and the good nature and companionship wliich had been so noticcible In thi's jurv ever since the panel was completed during the first week of the trial was gone.

No report with any degree of authenticity filtered from the jury room this morning, and tne opening of court at 10:30 a.m. was awaited with much anxiety, as it was bMieved the Jury mfght have some communication to make at that hour or that Justice Dowling might fend for them to ask if he could be of any service. Thaw, although late to bed. was up with the gray of dawn this morning, and to his keepers In the Tombs expressed the hope that a verdfet had been reached. He was thoroughly convinced before retiring last night that the rumor dividing the jurv eight to four in favor of acquittal on the ground of insanity was true, anil he felt toduy that the minority might be won over.

An Uneasy Night. Thaw at last seems absolutely reconciled to the fact that the best he could hope for was a term of confinement in an asylum. He is convinced, however, and so are his attorneys, that he will be able to win his way out of an asj'ium in a short as the tests he stood last year when arraigned before a commission in lunacv were quite convincing as to his present ability to prove his soundness of reason. Baths, fresh air and breakfast worked a marked improvement in the condition of most of the jurors, and when they returned to the criminal court room troni their hotel at 10 o'clock all seemed physically tit to continue, their deliberations for some time to since th? killing ot fetantoru White Thaw spent so restless a night as he did last night and during the early hours this morning. During the early hours Tliaw smoked grood deal and seemed to think that the jury would return a verdict before midnight.

When he 1 arned that the jury had tailed to agree arid had been locked up for the light he became restless. Although he tried to sleep lie was wakeful, and after doze would wake again and ask the warden for news of the jury. Feared a Hung Jury. Thaw was taken from the prison to the courthouse at o'clock, but no word at that time or for an hour thereafter had come from Justice Dowling or from the jury room. The judge finally arrived at 11:35 o'clock and went to his chambers.

Mrs. Evelyn Thaw visited her husband during the morning and reported that he was quite dejected over the outlook. Thawis reported to have said: "1 am afraid that, despite the vigilance of my counsel, theree are two or three men on the jury with innate prejudice against me. I have in mind one particular Juror, whose name I shall not mention. But no one who has followed the trial with any degree of Interest can havo failed to notice the significant ance-s this juror exchanged with a member of the prosecution.

This was particularly noticeabl? at the conclusion of Mr. Littleton's address." i There was no word awaiting Justice Dowllng on arrival at the courthouse, and there was complete silence in the dl rection of the Jury room. Justice Dowllng announced that he would not send for the Jury until he re ceived some definite word from it. Pittsburg Seems Pleased. PITTSBURG.

February Thaw verdict was received in this city with apparent satisfaction. Within three minutes after the verdict was flashed hy the Associated Press the newspapers had extra editions on the streets. Coming at the noon hour, when thousands of persons were on the thoroughfares, the newsboys were almost mobbed by excited purchasers. In the clubs, cafes and restaurants the jury's finding was the one theme'of conversation, and notwithstanding the fact that a snowstorm of blizzard proportions was in progress hundreds of persons stood about the various newspaper bulletin boards discussing the verdict. In all sections the verdict was received with approval, and only regret was expressed when it was learned that Thaw would be committed to an asylum.

Within ten minutes after the verdict was announced the news had traveled into the suburbs, and the telephones of the Associated Press and the various newspapers were busy by suburbanites desiring a confirmation of "a rumor that Harry K. Thaw had been declared not SPECIAL SESSION CLOSED. North Carolina Legislature Adjourned This Passed. Special Dispatch to The Star. RALEIGH, N.

February 1-The work of the extraordinary session of the North Carolina legislature ended at o'clock this afternoon, when both houses adjourned f-ine die after a session of two weeks, or exactly eleven working days. The senate at 10:30 adopted the railway rate bill passed by the house last night, which is the senate flat passenger rate bill with the provision delegating all rate matter after January 10, 1900. to the state corporation commission stricken out and in lieu thereof a section added stipulating exactly thd the corporation commission shall not have any such authority. The act was then ratified. There is no mileage books provision whatever in the new law.

The bill of Senator Hall to appoint a state commission to further probe into the affairs of the railroads and go back beyond two years in doing so, was promptly killed at 11 o'clock. The vote was 20 to 1 a. A resolution by Graham, amended by Buxton. was adopted formally recognizing the petitions to the legislature tfrom the railway organizations and expressing the hope that now the old rate has been restored the companies will not find it necessary to reduce the wages of the employes. Copies of the resolution (on the motion of Buxton) were ordered to be sent to the Order of Railway Conductors and Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and other organizations.

These people brought considerable pressure to bear in the closing days of the legislature. They number 20,000 voters in North Carolina, almost the balance of power. The last of the raHroad measures passed went through at 11 o'clock, that amending and strengthening the present law against Morgans and combinations among competing lines. Gov. Glenn sent in a highly congratulatory message, which was read just before the legislature adjourned, eulogistic of the "patriotism and fine work of the legislators." Miss Padelford Wedded.

LONDON. February St. Margaret's. Westminster, this afternoon Miss Florence Padelford, daughter of Mrs. Ernest Cunard, was united in marriage to Robert Victor Grosvenor.

eldest son of Lord Boury. The gathering in the church included many persons prominent in English society and the best-known members of the American colony. The bridesmaids were Miss Grosvenor, Miss Ralli, Miss Hope-Vcre and Lady Rosemary Cairns. Two nephews of the bridegroom, sons of Iver Churchill Guest, acted as pages. The marriage ceremony was followed by a reception at the home of the bride's mother.

The presents Included many valuable jewels. Miss Padelford was born in Baltimore. Md. Promotion of Chaplain Bateman. Chaplain C.

C. Bateman of the Coast Artillery Corps, stationed at the Army General Hospital at Fort Bayard. N. has been selected for promotion to the gradr of major In the army to fill a prospective vacancy. There are but three chaplains in the army with that rank, all the ofher chaplains being captains or flrst lieutenants.

Bona Fide Circulation of The Evening and Sunday Star. The sworn statement below shows that the circulation of THE STAR is what it is claimed to be- The circulation of THE STAR for the week, including and combining its evening and Sunday morning issues, is the largest, the best and the only sworn detailed circulation of each day, covering all issues, in the District of Columbia. In both its evening and Sunday morning issues it has a larger carrier delivery circulation into the homes of Washington than any other two local papers combined. THE SUNDAY STAR, viewed separately. has the largest, the best and- the only sworn circulation hi the District of Columbia.

Fifteen thousand of THE STAR regular subscribers take no oiher Washington papef whatever in their homes, depending upon THE STAR alone for news and advertising. THE STAR, dally and Sunday, thoroughly covers the local advertising field, reaching all classes of Washington purchasers, rich and poor alike, in their homes, on every day in the week, at an hour when they have the time and inclination to read a newspaper. SATURDAY, January 30,403 SUNDAY, January 2U. IfttWi MONDAY, Jauuary 17, 10OS TUESDAY. January 10os 37,840 WEDNESDAY.

January 2ft. 19ns. THURSDAY. January 1008.. 37.003 FRIDAY, January 31, lttus 37.07s Total for tlie week 243.473 Average 37,033 1 solemnly swear that the above statement represents only the number of copies of THE EYrENlNG and SUNDAY STAR circulated during the seven days ended January 31, is.

the number of copies actually sold, delivered, furnished or mailed, for valuable consideration, to bona fide purchasers or that the copies so counted are not returnable to or remain in the oiltce unsold, except in the case of Sunday papers sent to out-of-town agents only, from whom a few returns of unsold papers have not yet been received. J. WHIT. HERRO.V. Business Manager.

The Evening Star Newspaper Company. Subscribed and sworn to before me this first day of February. AD. 1908. W.

SPENCER ARMSTRONG, (Seal.) Notary Public. MQRDEJR OF H. W. REID PROGRESS SLOW IN EFFORT TO SOLVE THE MYSTERY. Nearly ten days have elapsed Since Henry W.

Keld. proprietor of a saloon at North Capitol and streets, was waylaid, murdered robbed, aid the detectives are as much at sea as recards the mystery. While they have believed all along that the murder was committed by colored men and that robbery was the motive, several are giving: consideration to two Italians seen in street about the time of the tragedy. "We'll admit an oyster knife not the kind of weapon Italians ordinarily use." one of the officers engaged in the investigation remarked. the Italians were seen, and it is necessary to trace their movements if Another thing the detectives have been unable to ascertain is the identity of a black man who was in the saonn a few minutes be'ore the place was closed Friday night a we'k Charles Phillips, the colored porter, who was arrested the day of the crime, still declares he did not see the man in question, although others who were in the saloon remember he was there, and say they saw Phillips standing near him.

The detectives are not satisfied that Phillips has tol all he knows in the case. Justice Karnard today he'd under security as a 1'nited Slates witness. Bond was not given, and an order was made committing Phillips to jail. Italians Seen by Policemen. Policemen Mahaney and Seriven.

who were standing at New Jersey avenue and street the morning the murder was committed, but who saw nothing of the assault, say they rtotlced two Italians on the Side of the street opposite that where the body of Reid was found. The Italians walked west along street and turned south into New Jersey avenue. It is the belief of the police that the Italians went to a building near the site of the old station of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. An effort is being made today to locate them and trace their movements. The failure of the detectives to locate the colored man who was in the saloon, as stated, has given them cause for worry.

He may be one of the several persons who are believed to have been implicated in the crime, and the officers are extremely anxious to find him. Attorney George F. who was counsel for Reid, and who yesterday was appointed administrator of his estate, has signified a willingness to assist the police all he can. M. T.

Burns and William J. Kolb, friends of the deceased, are also taking an active interest in the investigation. Mr. Burns says he is willing to pay J100 for the arrest and conviction of the slayer of his friend, making the reward offered total Detective Evans, who has been working on the case from the outset, told a Star reporter this morning that there had been nothing learned to indicate that Reid had ever visited or associated with colored women in the neighborhood of his saloon. Friends Resent Report.

Friends of the deceased resent the statements that the latter had associated wfth colored women. They say lie always moved in good society. He was a respected resident of Prince William county. before he came to this city several years ago. It has bsen argued that the numerous wounds sustained by Reid made it appear that the motive for the crime was jealousy and not robbery.

The fact remains, however, that Reid was robbed, and it is also recalled that Louis Gozman, who was murdered and robbed about the last of December, 190-, was hacked to pieces. His body was in a horrible condition when it was found in his store on Gordon avenue northeast. In that case there was never any Contention that jealousy actuated the crime, and detectives declare they have nothing in the case under investigation to warrant such an assertion. It stated by the police that letters found among the effects of the deceased indicate that he had trouble of some kind with Virginia neighbors about five years ago, but that trouble, the police think, has no bearing on the murder. END OF LONG RUN.

Franklin Model Engine in Motion Ninety-Six Hours. Mr. Robert B. Caverley, president of the Washington Automobile Club of Washington, at o'clock this morning threw the clutch out on the big Franklin, Model 1908 type car, owned by the Cook Stoddard Company, at its garage, 22d and streets northwest, thereby ending the ninety-six hours' continuous run of the engine. The start was made at 11:34 o'clock Tuesday morning, and in the ninety-six of actual running time the car traveled a distance of miles, between this city, Frederick and Ellicott City, making a trip each day.

While tiie car was not oil the road it was in the garage, but the engine was kept running continuously. From the speed of the motor the car would have traveled a distance of 2.f<0u miles. The oil consumed was nil an aver- i age of one quart for every seventy mile3 and one gallon of gasoline for every twenty-four and one-half miles. When the clutch was thrown out tills morning, it was stated, the engine, which was in perfectly normal condition, was barely warm, and there were no explosions. lairing the running of the car over the roads it was in charge of J.

H. Daly and F. S. Bliben. Mr.

1 al.v is the holder of the transcontinental record from San Francisco to New York, 15 days. 2 hours and 1-' minutes, and of the Chicago to New York record of 39 hours and 53 minutes, which he established with Franklin cars. REV. WM. T.

RUSSELL HERE. New Pastor of St. Patrick's Church in the City. Rev. William T.

Russell, who has been appointed pastor of St. Patrick's Church as the successor of Father D. J. Stafford, arrived at the rectory this morning from Baltimore, and has taken up the general direction of the affairs of the local pirish. He will make his iirst appearance in a i church service the last Sunday of month, and will introduced to the congregation by Cardinal Gibbons.

His-first sermon to the congregation will be delivered the Sunday following. Insanitary Buildings Demolished. The board for condemnation of insanitary buildings lies during the last month condemned and removed thirty-six dwellings in the District. This Is tiie largest number removed within the same length of time since the reorganization of the board two years ago. Twenty-four of these houses wer in streets and twelve In alleys.

One hundred and thirty-six insanitary dwellings have been removed within the last year upon ivcommendation of the board, which consists of Capt. William assistant engineer commissioner; Dr. W. C. Woodward, health officer, and Snowden Ashford.

building Inspector. Cardinal Richard Buried. PARIS. February funeral of Cardinal Richard, Archbishop of Paris, who died in this city January took place at Notre Dame Cathedral today, ind was mad'1 the occasion of a great Catholic manifestation. It passed off, however.

without disturbance. The police, under instructions from Prefect Lepine, gave evsry protection to those who accompanied the cort-ge through the streets and later crowded the cathedral. Death of James B. Colt. James B.

Colt, an employe of the government printing office, died yesterday at his home. '-'7 street. He was fifty-five years of age. The funeral will take place from the familv residence at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon. Mrs.

Sara I. Fleetwood Dead. Mrs. Sara Iredell Fleetwood, wife of Mai. C.

A. Fleetwood, colored, who was formerly prominent in local military died today. The funeral will take from St. Luke's Episcopal Church at o'clock next Monday afternoon. AT THE WHITE HOUSE Many Congratulations on the Message Received.

THOSE WHO CALLED TODAY All Said Something Very Pleasant' About It. SMOTHERED HUGHES' VIEWS I I Senator Carter Speaks Strongly Against the Local Board of Education and Its Squabbles. President Roosevelt didn't have time to read all the telegraphic and other congratulations that reached him today on the message he sent Congress yesterdav. Secretary Doeb's desk was piled with these missives at an early hour, and they continued to arrive throughout tike day. The most the President could do was to accept the congratulations of visitors, who were most hearty in their commendations.

Senators and representatives who have all along been cordial in their support of policies were never so warm in their expressions of approval. Those who have been lukewarm in this direction avoided expressions of opinion, on the ground that they had not read the message. Senator Kean of New Jersey, as art example, said he hadn't read the message and it would not be proper to extend congratulations until he knew why he 'was doing so. Representative Pearre of Maryland referred to the message as a "new declaration of independence." He considered tne message the greatest the President had lever sent to Congress. "Mr.

Roosevelt certainlv makes it clear that the admin: istration is not after honest men of wealth, but after the dishonest," he dei clared. "and the republican partjr will be greatly benefited if the man who is in June should place himself strictj ly upon a platform of carrying out these i policies." i "I undoubtedly congratulated the Presl' dent upon his message." said Senator McCumber of North Dakota. "It was a strong document. It ought to result in tlie legislation the President seeks, ana 1 am of the opinion that he will get what he wants. I am willing to stay here until legislation is enacted." Senator Gamble of South Dakota talked in the same strain.

"legislation along the lines proposed by the President cannot be avoided." he said. Senator Curtis of Kansas declared: It was really a splendid message, and will have a good effect in all directions. Of course I don't know what Congress will do, but I shall favor reasonable legislation along the lines asked for by Mr. Roosevelt." Bourke Cockran Joins the Refrain. Representative Bourke Cockran, democrat, of New York, joined in the glad refrain.

"I was delighted with the message," he said, "and told the President so. It was definite. It said something. It was devoid of generalities. It was unlike the speech of Gov.

Hughes In some respects, especially in the treatment of the tariff question. Guv. Hughes declares for a commission to consider revision of the tariff. To my that simply means indefinite postponement of action on the tariff question." Senator Jonathan Bourne, of Oregon said: "The message is the greatest public document since the Declaration of Independence, and it means the renomination of President Roosevelt beyond all Will Force Legislation. The somewhat general opinion Is that the President is determined to keep his requests for legislation before Congress, and that he will do everything reasonable to force consideration of matters he thinks noed attention.

That he expects further legislation he strongly intimates in personal conversation with callers. He is said to realize more than ever that his own action in eliminating himself from the presidential race will weaken his ef! forts toward securing leg'slation. but ha holds in reserve one card that it is declared he will not hesitate to play. Extra Session Probable. That is an extra session.

He would not. it is intimated, have the least fear of calling an extra session of Congress in the face of a presidential election. He is firmly of opinion that Secretary Taft will be nominated at Chicago on the fir.st ballot. If Congress should adjourn ti-lore that time without additional legislation to strengthen the railroad rate laws and clarify the Sherman ami-trust law he would consider calling an extra session at once. The effect upon the national convention would be great.

Should Congress still be in session when the convention meets and has failed to pur- upon the books legislation sought by the President lie will consider calling an extra session regardless of the possibl1 consequences in the campaign. He cannot see how the republicans, especially with Taft as the nominee, could be liarmed by such a course on his part. Did It Smother Hughes' Views? Tht most interesting comment today in connection with the message yesterday is that it was to get to the public just in advance of the speech that Gov. Hughes had been scheduled for many days to make last night. Has it overshadowed the views of the Governor of New York? Has it taken the edge off speech of the governor? The Presidem fixed his own tima for sending the message to Congress and ha was awar.

ten days ago when the speech of the governor would be made. In all the newspapers of the country today the ssagc of the President and the speech of the governor are printed alongside each other. Nearly every paper gives most prominence to the message of tlu Pnsiuent. The governor's speech is more or less minimised. South Dakota for Taft.

Senator Gamble is delighted with information he has from South Dakota. He has received telegrams saying that the republican state central committee, at its meeting yesterday to arrange for a stat': convention, passed resolutions indorsing the Roosevelt policies, pledging port to Secretary Taft and indorsing Gov Crawford for Uni'ted Statfs senator in place of Senatcr Kittredge. The action as to Roosevelt and Taft was expected. as both factions of the committee are for Taft. but the indorsement of Gov.

Crawford precipitated a great local fight in the The state cential committee is dominated by the Gamble-Crawford men to the tune of about to 20. Senator Gamble is confident Gov. Crawford will easily defeat Senator Kittredge. Printing Office Investigation. Representative Landis of the House committee on printing had talk today with tlie President about affairs in the government printing office.

The conference. it is understood, was without understanding as to any particular action, tlie President saying that he had not yet had opportunity to digest tlie report made to him by Dr. George C. Havenner as to tlie cost'o. printing to tlie departments by tlie government printing office.

Representatives Finley of South Carolina and Webb of North Carolina gave the President an invitation from the D. A R. chapter at Yorkville, S. to attend the unveiling of a monument at Kings mountain. N.

Octobsr 7. commemorating the valorous deeds of the American soldier. The President was obliged to decline the invitation. Carter Hits Board of Education. Senator Carter is strong in his condemnation of the board of education of the District.

He went to the White House today to introduce some friends, Shall Women Smoke? Social leaders in Washington express their opinions on th.e burning question. Illustrated. Hearts and.Clubs The place of the American man. By Maria Lindsey, Illustrated. Moonshiners Now Troublesome I Becoming active in the surge of the temperance wave.

Illustrated. In Mary's Reign A full page of the romantic novel. By Baroness Orczy. Capt. Linden and the Mountain Mystery World's greatest detectives.

By George Barton. Finding Its Legs American nation takes to walking. Illustrated. Recruiting the Circus Army Getting en rapport with the latest stars. By Tody Hamilton.

Greatest Catch in Britain Premier duke of Ireland fond of America. Illustrated. Irvin S. Cobb ON Our Foreign Friends American Women "The finest in the world," says W. J.

Bryan, Embroidery Fashions Interviews New Novels "Letters from a New Congressman's Wife Are growing better each week," writes one of our subscribers, and others are strong in praise of this illuminating series. A Reception at the White House Is described in the next letter from Beulah Rural to her friend Etta. The letter gives a many-sided picture of capital affairs as well. The Bachelor Habit is a The Climbing Courvatels, criticism of bachelors and the humorous serial by maids" for their ward W. Townsend, defailure to marry.

Robert H. scribes more social succcssPark is the author. es by the chief characters. The Rose Riband is an- The Wheel o'Fortune, Louis other Galloping Dick story Tracy's fine serial, continues by H. B.

Marriott Watson. to grip the reader's interest. Mark Twain's Autobiography in the next chapter tells more of his peculiar brother, Orion Clem- ens, and relates a story about John Hay. it Read The Sunday St ar and when asked about the school situation. said: "It Is a disgrace to the capital to have such a system as the present one.

Squabble after squabble, repetition and reiteration of gossip and scandal are enough to'disgust the country and have disorganized the schools. The commissioner of education ought to have jurisdiction of the schools of the District. lie can. I believe, make the school system here a model one for the country. I do not know anything more disgusting than the fighting within the present board.

Is it any wonder that patrons of the schools have lost confidence? I do not know how much truth there Is in it. but the ciaim iH made before our committee in tlie Senate that the recent petition pleading for a continuance of existing conditions was padded out by force, the teachers being compelled to sign under fear o' losing their jobs. We have been told that one principal. who kept the petition at his school more than twenty-four hours, received peremptory orders to get it signed up in a hur-y and send It back to the board. What we aim to do now is to mak? stories and conditions of this kind impossible.

A radical change is necessary to do this." OBJECT TO CHANGE. Colored Taxpayers Ask That School Conditions Be Not Disturbed. A petition signed by several hundred colored citizens and taxpayers of the District asking for a further trial of the present school law has been presented to Senator Burkatt. chairman of the school subcommittee of the Senate District committee. The petition says that the signers "heartily indorse the board of education and Supt.

A. T. Stuart, and wish to express to your committee confidence in their Integrity and ability." It concludes: "We most respectfully petition Congress to give the present school law a longer trial, because we believe it to be a good one." Perclval M. Brown, chairman of the school committee of the Chamber of Commerce, stated today that the action of the Senate District committed yesterday In deciding favorably upon the Dolllver bill and reporting it to the Senate with its approval has made the committee more determined to fight the passage of the measure. SOME NOTABLE DEATHS.

TROY. N. W. Wolf, the oldest active letter carrier In the United States, is dead. He was seventytwo years old and had been a letter carrier fifty-four years.

On his sleeve Mr. Wolf wore three gold stars, two emblematic of fifty years' service and the other a special honor conferred hy the President upon the peer of veteran DETROIT. February W. Shaw, for many years superintendent of Harper Hospital and secretary of the Hospital Superintendents' Association of America, died yesterday at home there. He had been in poor health tor two years.

In 1877 Mr. Shaw, who was in the oil business in this city, became known all over the United States as the man who found the key and translated the cipher dispatches sent out from Oregon bearing on the political situation in that state in the Hayes-Tl'den battle for the presidency. LA CROSSE. February W. Gosnell.

aged forty-three years, a leading republican in this section, died last night. Mr. Gosnell was a member of a prominent old Baltimore family. Ho was one of the leaders in the Montana constitutional convention and had a part In the drafting of the constitution on which that state was admitted to the In Ion. PHILADELPHIA.

February Fullerton. aged thirty-five years, a workman at tiis Frankford arsenal in this city, died in a hospital today from injuries received yesterday in an explosion at the government ant. Two other workmen who were severely injured arn expected to recover. The explosion was canned by the ignition of a speck of powder in a priming machine used in the making of shrapnel slulls. OCEAN LINER MOVEMENTS HALIFAX.

X. February steamer Minneapolis, from London for New York, was in communication by wireless telegraph with the Marconi station here when miles east of Sandy Hook at 3 a.m. Will dock about 9 am. Monday. SOUTH WELLFLEET.

February steamer Fhllad from Southampton for Nfw York, was in communication by wireless telegTaph with the station here when 150 miles east of Nsjitucket lightship at 0:30 a.m. Dock about a.m. Sunday..