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Show Utah County Democrat Difficulty of FramPROVO ing Good UTAH Laws Is Enormous Conferees Have Failed to Solve th Problem, and Whole Subject May Go Over Until Next Session. NEWS SUMMARY The sundry civil appropriation bill, carrying a total of about $120, 000,000, was passed by the senate last week, Three persons were killed and ten others injured during a tornado which badly damaged the town of Bollin ger. La General Lorenzo Torros, commander of all the troops In Sonora, has concluded peace with the renegade Yaqui Indians. The armored cruiser Maryland was the trophy winner in the recent target practice at Magdalena bay. The Illinois was the former holder of the trophy. A tornado which swept through Mercer and Henry counties, Illinois, last week," touching several towns and did Mrs. considerable damage. Gottch, an elderly woman, was killed at Cleveland, Senators Morris and Roddie engaged in a fist fight on the floor of the senate at Guthrie, Oklahoma, as a result of Roddie calling Morris a liar. Roddie sustained serious Senator bruises on the head. John W. H. Geiger, convicted of misuse of the funds of the Central bank of Baltimore, of which he was cashier, committed suicide on May 14. He was about to begin a five years prison sentence. More cars are idle at the present time than for years. The latest report on the number of idle cars in the country Is that of April 29. This shows 413,605, an Increase of 37,835 over that of April 15. Governor Allen Gard of Lanao province, P. I., wh-- was injured by Moro bolomen recently, is not dead as reported. He is now said to be improving, and it is expected that he will recover from his wounds. of The director and the prison at Astrakahn, Russia, have been condemned to eight years in ,the penitentiary for having inflicted on certain prisoners such cruel treat ment that one of the men died. A call has been issued by the na tional body of the first National Good Roads congress, to meet In Chicago June 15, and in Denver, July G, the day before the opening of the Repub' lican and Democratic conventions, Jim Lynn, a negro, who murdered Sarah James, a white girl 16 .years of age, and fatally shot her mother, Mrs, Julia James at Pueblo, Colo., was arrested at Limon Junction, Colo., while seeking friends with whom to hide. The St. Paul railway will begin at once construction of seventy locomotives of the highest type. This will result in restoring to employment in the west Milwaukee shops of that company the full force of 5,000 men, The Republican state convention, held at Macon, Ga., selected four urn instructed delegates to the national convention. Three delegates are Bald to favor the nomination of Taft and the fourth is a supporter of Governor Hughes. Two twin children, 3 years of age, were burned to death in a fire which destroyed their home in Oakland, Cal. Mrs. Robert Nunemaeher, whose is a gardener, carried her other children to safety, but could ont,1 the twins. The National Drainage congress met in Washington on May 12. Interest was centered in the presence of W. J, Bryan, who was the principal speaker at the afternoon session. Senator Francis G. Newlands of Nevada spoke at the morning session. The wives of the members of the diplomatic corps at Pekin were received by the Dowager Empress in audience at the summer palace on May 15. It was noticed that the empress had aged materially since the last audience of a year ago. General Snarski, commander of the Russian punitive expedition into Persian territory, has been ordered to resume his advance into Persia and to punish the bandits with fire and sword. He will destroy villages, but spare the women and children. The right of. President Roosevelt summarily to dismiss a negro soldier of the Fifteenth infantry for alleged partlcipitation in the riot at Brownsville, Texas, was sustained by Judge Hough in tho United States district court, New York City, last week. The jury in the case of Robert H. Na-tlon- vice-direct- huB-ban- d res-'ou- e Hollowell, of Paducah, Ky., who sued his brother, John H. Hollowell, and twenty-seveother alleged night riders, for $50,000 damages for driving him and his family from the state, brought in a verdict awarding the plaintiff $35,000. An official telegram received in London by the Indian office reports twenty-sevedeaths from cholera in the regiment of Munster Fusiliers, which a week ago was sent into the cholera camp from Major Genefa now force Willcocks operating against the Mohmands. The Denver & Rio Grande railroad, acting for the Western Pacific, has 6 per cent sold $15,000,000 two-yea- r notes, with the privilege of extending them for three years, from 1910. Proceeds of the sale of these notes will be used in completion of the construction of the Western Pacific. The revolutionists in Yun Nan province, China, have met a setback. The second column of Insurgents, the one that was advancing on Mengh-Tsze- , a treaty port at the head of navigation on the Songkoi river, has been by provincial troops, following the defeat of the first column. n n TRUST BUSTER By IION. JAMES BRYCE. British Ambassador to United States. HE difficulty of framing good laws is enormous, because the work is in most countries no longer the comparatively easy task of repealing old laws which hampered and constrained the citizens destruction is simple work but the far harder task of creating a new set of laws which shall guide and help men to attaining the ends they are bent on. Seventy years ago people thought that the great thing was freedom. When they had got it they were dissatisfied, and instead of simply letting everything and everybody alone to work their own weal or woe, on individualist principles, they forthwith set to work to forbid some things which had been tolerated before and to throw upon government all sorts of new functions more difficult and delicate than those of which they had stripped it. The demand for a profusion of legislation is inevitable; and the difficulty of having it good, undeniable. In what does the difficulty consist? In three things. First, of those who demand legislation, many do not understand exactly what is the evil they desire to cure, the good they seek to attain. Secondly, when they do understand the evil they seldom know what is the proper remedy, when they seek the laudable end they seldom the best to it. means the number of measures, remeperceive Thirdly, dial and constructive, called for is so large that it is very hard to select out of them those most urgently needed. No legislation can deal with all at once. Where many are being pressed at once by different persons they jostle one another, and like people crushing one another in the narrow exits of a theater, they move more slowly than if they were made to pass along in some reguUr jrder. The task of legislation becomes more and more difficult, owing to the complexity of modern civilization, the vast scale of modern industry and commerce, the growth of new modes of production and distribution that need to be regulated, yet so regulated as not to interfere with the free play of individual enterprise. Many of the problems which legislation now presents are too hard for the ordinary members and even for the abler members of legislative bodies, because they cannot be mastered without special knowledge. (It may be added that in the United States a further difficulty arises from the fact that legal skill is often required to avoid transgressing some provision of the federal or a state constitution.) The above conditions make it desirable to have some organized system for the gathering and examination of materials for legislation, and especially for collecting the laws passed in other countries on subjects of current importance. To secure the pushing forward of measures needed in the public Interest, there should be in every legislature arrangements by which some iefinite person or body of persons become responsible for the conduct of legislation. Bills of a local or personal nature ought to be separated from bills jf general applicability and dealt with in a different and quasi-judici- al way. . Arrangements ought to be made, as, for instance, by the creation of a drafting department connected with a legislature or its chief committees, for the putting into proper legal form of all bills introduced. Similarly, a method should be provided for rectifying in bills before they become law such errors in drafting as may have crept into them during their passage. When any bill of an experimental kind has been passed, its workings ihould be carefully watched and periodically reported on as respects both the extent to which it is actually enforced (or found enforceable) and the practical results of the enforcement. In order to enable both the legislature and the people to learn what the statute law actually is, and thereby to facilitate good legislation, the statute law ought to be periodically revised, and as far as possible so consolidated as to be brought into a compact, consistent and intelligible shape. e Involuntary architects, we shape and rear four houses for ourselves, establishing and beautifying them or making them unsafe and unsightly by all we are and do. What are you making your family house, your home, out of? Loyalty, honor, truth, unselfishness are the four corners of loves inclosure, the safeguards of its teaching and inspiring ministry, the anchorage of the hearts it sends forth for struggle with the world. By BEV. THOMAS EDWARD BABB, Milwaukee. You build a house for yourself in society. Business and social intercourse are its life. Integrity, industry, justice and food-wi- ll are its cornerstones l)o you square to these? With what are we building our national house? Liberty md justice, equality and brotherhood, bound the circuit of our national Man Is a Builder - Dope. What kind ofa house does your religion make for you? A chamber f horrors, where morbid conscience and unjust authority hold you in terror? An unfeneed plain, with the uncharted heavens to guide you over in unknown earth? What are the landmarks of this great estate? Reverence for God and for all that is, because God made it; faith, in the food in men and for men; hope, for the ultimate triumph of right in and in the world; love, for all Gods world, here and beyond the rail of death, specially to help those who need. Does your religion make :t easier for you to resist temptation? Does it help you to be brave, wor? Does it make you patient, sympathetic, helpthily ambitious, untiring ful ? Does it bring the unseen and spiritual closer to your consciousness, with the appeal of its supreme, controlling, lasting worth? This ia the abernacle of God, let down out of heaven for each man, and which each may make tangible for himself. In this is the peace that passeth understanding, and joys forevermore. Four houses ? There is a fifth the house of character. Thought and desire, purpose and experience, weave a tent, the expression of ourselves, which we can never quit and through which we look and work upon the world. What if it be the poisoned shirt of Nessus, tormenting Hercules to his death? What if it be the creative foregleam of the building of God, the house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens? To attain that revelation toil and pain are well worth while. our-telv- es FOR BENCH Milton D. Purdy, assistant to the attorney' general, has been nominated by the president for That there will Washington. United States judge at Minneapolis, and it re- no currency legislation at the mains to be seen whether the local political infiu ent session of congress is nowpres. beence that has been so hostile to him In the past lieved many members to he a, by will be able to defeat him now. It waa strong most a certainty. The conferees on enough to prevent his being appointed district at- the senate and house bills have held torney for a full term, after he had Berved the un several sessions in an effort to work expired term of his dead chief, but his abilities out something under the head of the were not forgotten at the White House. When bill, but they are congress passed an act providing for an assistant said to have almost abandoned hope. l to the at $7,000 a year, in addi As a result there is a decided t tion to the seven assistants at $5,000, Purdy was among the conferees and leadto the office. appointed It is somewhat remarkable that a man who ers of both branches of congress that the whole subject should go ewer has made so brilliant a record as a lawyer should until next session. In that event the have been an indolent, unambitious pupil at work would be taken up next session school. His father as potter; he learned the trade himself. He had no by the same conferees, as the bills ambition to be anything else and would have remained a potter all his life but introduced at the session do present tor his mother, who insioted on his going through the high school and then to not die until the end of congress. the University of Minnesota. When he finished his course he was glad to take The senate committee on finance a position at $24 a month, although his board cost him $5 a week. For a has been swamped with protests from year he was perfectly miserable and often wondered If It was worth while bankers and commercial Interests keeping up the struggle. He was forced to walk to save car fare and had to against the Vreeland bill. The oppo sition has been based chiefly upon the deny himself every enjoyment. Then came the happiest moment of his life. He was appointed assistant charge that it proposes an asset curcity attorney of Minneapolis at the magnificent salary of $25 a week. He felt rency through clearing houses being that he was indeed wealthy now, and as soon as he could save enough for his permitted to issue notes. wedding clothes he was married. Then he was appointed assistant United Agreement With Panama. States district attorney and succeeded his chief on the latters death. Washington. Secretary Taft has an His first 19 cases constituted an unbroken list of successes, and he Is alnounced the terms of the agreemen1 leged to have saved the government over $10,000,00. Among other things he he reached with the Panama govern brought the Minnesota timber thieves to hook and helped bust the Northern on his recent visit there, which ment Securities merger to the great delight of the president Since he has been is It believed, if carried into effect; attornev-geueral assistant to the he has been making war upon the Standard will guarantee the absolute integrity Oil, the fertilizer, he drug, the tobacco and other trusts and has done valuable of the elections to be held In July work for the government. Panama Is to appoint an electoral commission to investigate the com, plaints of all parties and in this the United States is to join. This is re garded as one of the most importanl Charles G. Gates has been "bucking the tiger results of the secretarys visit to the in a Rawhide gambling house and come out a isthmus. Representations of fraud winner to the tune of $20,000. Gambling is to contemplated by both parties had Charles as the breath of his nostrils; without it been made to him, which, if carried life would be unendurable, if not impossible. He into effect, it is believed here, would came by the Instinct honestly, for his father, have led to a revolution. John W. Gates, is looked upon as the most invet Supply Bill Passes the House. erate gambler in New York. It matters nothing The passage by ths Washington. to him whether he risks his money on stocks or of the general do on house Monday at the race track; on cotton or on corn; at poker or at faro. If there Is any gambling game he has ficiency appropriation bill, carrying not tried, Wall street men do not know what It is. an appropriation of $17,38,672, marked Although Charles is only 33, he has seen more the completion by that body of the of the ups and downs of life than most men of last of the great supply measures twice his age. He left college to become a clerk The bill was put through under susfor the Consolidated Steel & Wire Co., of Chicago, pension of the rules with no time aland at 21 he was assistant to the president. He lowance for general debate. Several measures were passed by was at this time engaged in many deals of his own and he made enough money unanimous consent, Including a join! to a in a by them firm. At 24 he felt that he buy partnership for payment oi resolution providing had earned a rest, so he gave up business and went traveling for three years an annuity for life of $125 a month On his return he went into his fathers brokerage firm in New York. One day to the widows of Surgeon James he calmly called a meeting of the partners to tell them how they could make each Carroll and Jesse Leseare, U. S. A., In two millions in six months. He proposed a corner of the corn market, and recognition of their discoveries in these men who had been studying the market for more years than young Gates connection with the transmission ot had' lived, went In with him. They ran the price of corn from 65 cents up to yellow fever by mosquitoes. 81, and then the crash came. It was whispered that the Gates family intended Cotton Brokers Before Jury. to leave the others stranded on the top of a rapidly falling market, and the took and York. A sensation was caused out. New partners fright pulled The Gates combination does not seem to have lost much, for on New York cotton exchange the they were Immediately afterward active in other deals. Everything they touched seemed when it became known on Tuesday to turn to money until they were caught in the slump of a year ago. Their that a number of members of the ex, partners, unable to trust them, got from under and the banks called in their change had been subpoenaed to ap loans. Charles and his father are said to have dropped $40,000,000 at this time. pear before the federal grand jury. The firm was dissolved and the seat on the exchange sold. Gates and his fa- One rumor was that the subject under ther proposed to spend a few years In France recuperating, but within a few investigation was the trading of a months they were bacl: in the game again. Charles --is now In Rawhide en- very large speculator in connection with advance information secured by gaged in mining deals. ' .he speculator on government crop It Is generally understood .hat the men summoned will be as to the methods of fixing the grades of cotton deliverable on the exThe worst blow to the British liberals since change. they have been in power was delivered in the Two Lose Lives in Fire. here, when Winston Churchill, president of the board of trade in the new Asquith cabinet, Sault Ste Marie, Mich. The pulp was defeated for parliament by 429 votes. W. mill of the Kae Superior corporation Joynson Hicks, unionist, won, getting 5,417 votes in the Canadian Soo, across the river to Churchills 4,988. Churchill defeated Hicks for from this city, was destroyed by fire the seat two years ago, but under English custom early Monday. The loss is about had to stand for The power plant is also when advanced to $350,000. out of commission. Albert E. Walsh, cabinet rank. The vote was the heaviest cast in years. superintendent of the dynamo room, Several elements figured in the defeat of Church-ill- , aged 24, was shocked to death while trying to extinguish the flames. Edone of the principal ones being the energetic his assistant, aged 24, ward opposition of suffragettes. English Catholic priests jumpedGray, into the canal after his clothalso opposed Churchill. Premier Asquith failed to had caught fire while he wa3 send the usual letter to a candidate standing be- ing fighting the flames and was drowned cause of advancement, and expounding to the voters the necessity of strengthening the government. to Reunite Protestant Methodists Churchill, although but 33 years old, is noted as a war correspondent, solWith Mother Church. dier, orator and parliamentarian. As under secretary for the colonies he rePittsburg. The general conference ceived the brunt of the criticism of the Natal muddle, wherein the interference of the Methodist Protestant church on of the London office very nearly brought on an open rupture. Saturday discussed at length the proHe is the son of the late Right Hon. Lord Randolph Churchill. His mother ject to unite with the mother church, was a New York girl, the daughter of Leonard Jerome, famous for his wealth the Methodist Episcopal. It was votand his horses. He won praise during the Boer war by his gallant defense of ed that the committee to consider an armored train at Cheneley. He was made a prisoner of war during the ac- the matter consist of one delegate tion, but escaped. He was then but 25 and had gone to the scene of tonflict from each conference district. A as a war correspondent resolution recently adopted by the As a writer he has distinguished himself, one of his best works coherence withholding Maryland a being of baptism of Infants approval description of the sea. He also served in the Spanish army in Cuba in 1895 of whom has made neither took part in the later wars in India and won a medal for bravery with professionparent of faith to our laws and Kitchener At the battle of Omdurman. was the law of Je'sus Christ, "Aldrich-Vreelan- d attorney-genera- sent!-rnen- CHIP OF THE OLD BLOCK stock-brokerag- e BLOW TO BRITISH LIBERALS ques-.ione- adopted. BOOMING CAUSE OF HUGHES Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, president of the Hughes league, is busy booming the cause of the New York governor for the Republican presi- Objected to His Father Taking a Wife New York. A family estrangement which had driven one of the members to insanity, culminated last Tuesday in the murder of George E. dential nomination. If Hughes falls the general would like to see Sterry, a millionaire drug exporter, the choice fall upon Uncle Joe Cannon who, he by his son, George E. Sterry, Jr., and the suicide of the latter. The elder says, has prevented more bad or useless legislation from going through than any man In the Sterry was shot down at the Pine street office of Weaver & Sterry, limcountry. Moreover, he and Uncle Joe entered conwhere he had been closeted for gress the same year and are exactly the same age aited,few moments with the murderer. which probably helped to make them the stanch The determination of the father to refriends they have always been. marry led to the tragedy. Gen. Woodford was born In New York 72 years ago, and was practicing law there more Rioting in Cleveland. half a century ago. He was messenger for than Cleveland. The most serious vio the famous electoral college of 1860, and was afterlence of the street car strike occurred ward United States attorney for the southern In Lakewood, a suburb, Tuesday which position he threw up to enter the aimy. At the close of the war night, when seven men were wounded he was brevet brigadier-genera- l of volunteer. He was lieutenant-governo- r of by bullets, one car was burned and New York In 1866, but was defeated for governor at the following election He another partly wrecked. Trouble had was president of the electoral college in 1872 and a congressman the following been anticipated and the first cat year. He has filled some Important positions, having been a member of the run Into Lakewood on the Cliftoi commission to draft the charter for Greater New York and Hudson Fulton commission. He was United States minister topresident of ths avenue line carried no passenger Spain in 1897 When It stopped before a railway and when the war broke out the following year he returned to the United bridge & crowd which had been lying States and retired into private life, only to emerge once more to boom the In wait leaped from behind the bridge candidacy of Gov. Hughes, and opened fire on the crew and guards, who returned the fire. dls-trlc- t, d |