The evening world. Newspaper, January 13, 1915, Page 3

rt LTT atl TRAVIS CN TAX BOARD BILL State Comptroller Flatly Re- fuses to Sanction Gover- nor’s Reform Measure. MEANS A PARTY BREAK. Barnes and Hinman Line Up With Whitman and Brown With Travis. By Samuel M. Williams. (Special Suaft Corres ereependent of The Evenin; ALBANY, Jan. oi. ~The first crisis between Gov. Whitman and the Re- publican organization came suddenly this afternoon over the plan to re- organize the State Tax Commission, Strenuous attempts were made by Comptroller Travis, backed by political bosses, to prevent the Gov- ernor from sending to the Legislature + to-night his proposed special message A, ' * endorsing the bill prepared by tax experts abolishing the present Tax Commission and creating a new de-; ‘The new plan takes away} partment. too much political patronage from the Comptroller's Office to suit the job! hunters. ‘The Comptroller had a tong con- ference with the Governor, denounc- ing the bill and threatening repris- Gov. Whitman put his back up against the wall and declared that he was going to see the thing through, that his message would go in to- night and the bill would be intro- duced, In a short time word came that Senator Elon R, Brown of Wa- tertown, Republican leader of the Senate, could not introduce the bill in the Senate, that he was too busy with other matters and that the Senate would not have time to give consideration to it, all of which meant that the fight was on if the Governor wanted to press matters. But a split arose in the Old Guard ranks, “Boss” Barnes does not stand with Travis and Brown. Harold Hin- man of Albany, leader of the Assem- bly, and Barnes’ representative, took strong groun@ in favor of the bill, even declaring that the Inheri- tance Tax Bureau should be taken away from the Comptroller's office and lodged in the proposed new Tax Commission. Travis left the Gover- nor In Angry mood. “I told him,” sald the Comptroller, at if he wanted to reform the tax em the way to do it 1s to make up a commission of all the elective State officers below the Governor and have the detailed work done by the Comptroller's staff, I am not in favor of this proposed bill. I was not con- sulied about it, We shall see what ia going to be done very soon,” Gov, Whitman's fighting blood rose when he heard of the attempts to blockade him. He nastened prepara- tion of his special message to the Legistature to-night, which will go in whether or not the Senate permits in- troduction of the bill, The Barnes- Hinman faction is standing by the Governor for tax reform and the Leg- talature is divided. The new Tax Department bill gives to @ board of three mem- bers authoritative control over loeal tax officials in all cities and counties, and gathors into a centralized isistration the loose and scatterea ends of State taxation, The maic ‘purpose is to check gross inequalities im system, methods and burdens that prevail in different localities. While mot taking away the power of each locality to assess its own property and levy its own taxes, the now State Board will have authority to compel ull to follow the same general rules and put an end to inequalities, iscriminations and special favors. The Commission is to be compused of tax experts and is to have a por manent of employees, select after competitive examination and protected by civil service ru Former Senator Martin Saxe of “New York is to be Chairman of the ‘new commission of three, If it 1s cre- ated, Frank Lord of Nussau County iu to be second member. The third commissioner will be a Democrat, ‘The bill provides for four depart- mental bureau ch under a deputy, These bu- caus are spectal fra Han taxes, mortgage tax and local a CLASHES TWage-} ss a. ‘saat iba p BVER EVERY WOMAN WoRWER ISNT MERELY WAITING FoR A HUSBAND t AT LAST.. Decision in Peixotto Case Makes This Possible, Says Miss Rodman, and New Order of Things Will Extend Far Beyond School Teaching—50,000 Women in New York Ready to As- sume the Responsibilities of Self- Support and Motherhood. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. There are at least fifty thousand women in New York who are assum- ing or who desire to assume the full responsibilities of both wage-earning and motherhood, That is the opinion of Miss Henrietta Rodman, chairman of the Feminist Alliance and leader of the fight for the mother-teacher in the New York schools, which has just been crowned with victory by State Superintendent John Finley's decision in the case of Mrs. Bridget Peixotto. When Miss Rodman was told of the State super- intendent’s order that Mrs, Peixotto be reinstated in the public schools she declared: “It is not merely on the schools and on the women teachers in them that this decision will have a far-reaching effect. It is inspiration and encouragement to women in every field who wish to be both mothérs and wage-earners. There are already thou- sands of such women in New York. First, we had the self-supporting daughter. Then appeared the self- supporting wife. But the self-supporting mother is a comparatively new social phenomenon. I thought it would ‘be interesting to hear more about her, and so IT sought Miss Rodman. “I don't know just how many wo- men In New York city are supporting themselves,” she sald, “but it's safe to put the number at 270,000, And I am certain that at least a third of this number are not working to kill time and pay their board until some man will take on the job of support- ing them, Either they are wives and mothers ctveady, having Yefused to relinquish the work which they know and love, or they hope for marriage snd motherhood as a supplement— RUT NOT AS A .SUBSTITUTE—to thelr chosen career, “The self-supporting mother le here. In dily increasing num- bers women are refusing to make the cruel choi prese to them for fifty years, the choice between brain and heart, between intellectual lopment = and emotional fulfil it. In steadily increasing numbers women are proving that the best mothers arg those whose mentality is daily exércised by killed occu- pation, and that the best workers are those whose natures are stim- ulated by ‘domestio hi “This trained attendant will be on duty during the mother’s work- ing hours. When she returns she will have plenty of time and op- Portunity to love her baby and de- light in it—to my mind the most important function of mother- hood. Surely the development of the spiritual tie between mother and child matters infin than that the mothi and feed her little one and per- form other merely physical of- fices. “And don't you see that by this ar- rangement we shall raise the whole standard of feminine industry? ‘The mother will not be forced to give up her skilled work, to enter the field of baby-tending in which she ts un- skilled. On the other hand, Mm place of the untrained nursery maid we shall have highly efficient, scientifi- cally educated young women whose career will be child culture. And self- respect will be preserved all around,’ WOMEN SPECIALIZE ON PARENT- AGE, MEN ON WAGE- EARNING, “How about the self-respect of the husband and father?” I suggested. “Is there no chance of his losing it if he isn't made financially responsible for his wife and children?” “It's qnly the man unable to make himself respected outside his home who feels that his self-respect needs the dependence of his wife and fam- ily," said Miss Rodman quietly, “Here in America we have made women specialize in parentage ning. The pporting mother will give if a chance in industry and her husband a chance ae a father, With the economic strain on him lessened, since he will not be the sole contributor to the family ex- chequer, he will be able to give his wife and children something be- sides financial support. How many New York fathers have to go to work before their children wake up, and do not return tll the little ones are in bed! They are toll- iness.’ MISS RODMAN SOLVES PROBLEM OF CHILDREN’S CARE. “But what is the practical working out of the tion?” I asked, “There are persons Who will say, ‘What is the social or economic advantage in fifty thousand mothers going outside their homes to work if they must hire fifty thousand other women to do the work left behind at home?” “Oh, but that's not the way of It,” insisted Miss Rodman, “Just now we're In a transition period, with its Inevitable makeshifta, But this is how the thing !» bound to work out: ‘The individual self-supporting mother will not leave her child in charge of the individual untrained servant. It will be put under the guidance of a baby specialist in a co-operative nursery, where one trained woman will be able to give the most perfect care to the children of many un- ing and are sacrificing themselves for sessment \trained moth Don’t Let Your Stomach Trouble You When you feel miserable, run down, have a bad taste in the mouth, coated tongue and frequent headaches it is a sure sign that your stomach, liver ‘and bowels are not in order and need a good, thorough cleansing at once. EX-LAX The Delicious Laxative Chocolate will cleense your system in a natural, healthy manner, without pain or grip- ing. 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On the other hand, they are given bade eat expert care by trained attendants, The ignorant devotion of the mother is better than the jeer of ® woman without devotion. jut fi Jove cannot offset solen- that @ woman is not physically equal to the combined burden of motherhood ly to The self-sup re ° mother siti live according xed routine, Her children will-b should be paid leas than men becaus they always get married and lea thelr positions as soon as they have! become really competent, There will| be a wonderful Increase in the effici-| ency of women workers when it ii understood that thejr careers, like men's, may last for & lifetime. And) we shall have the most intelligent) women becoming mothers, instead of} svcrificing their pc-@ible their world-work, “It is so absurd to say feminists are opposed to the home,” ended Misi Rodman with a laugh. *T have met any women anyw! didn’t want their own home own husbands, their own children. But the woman of the future will b three-fold—home-maker, wage-earner and citize hildren to} a HUDSON TUBES ARE TO BE INSPECTED AS TO SAFETY Jersey City Officials Will See If Accident Like That in Sub- way Is Possible. By agreement between Frank Hague, Direetor of Public Safety for Jersey City, and Wilbur |C. Fiske, president of the Hudson and Manhat- tan Rallway Company, there will be a thorough inspection of the Hudson tubes by electrical experts of the fire and police departments of Jersey City. By this it will be determined whether the tubes can be made safer than they are now from an accident like that which endangered the lives of hundreds pf passengers in the New York subway last week. After describing the New York ac- cident in @ letter to Mr. Fiske, Mr, Hague said: “In the interest of public safety, may I ask what methods of escape have been provided for your passengers ip the event of such an accident?” Mr, Fiske, in his reply, agreed to ve the Inspection made, suggesting it would least inconvenience the pub- lle If it were to take place between midnight and daybreak, Mr. Fiske called attention to im type of cara used in the tube: steel, with orete floors and al re gether free from inflammable mai rials. ——__—_ {BUSINESSPOOR, SHOOTS SELF Express Manager Feared Office Would Be Closed, George Andrews, for many years MOTHER'S CARE OF CHILD NOT |managor of the Bleecker Street branch ABSOLUTE NECESSITY, “What about the argument that no oye can care for a child so well tla, the mother who asked, “Statistics show that the lowest child death rate is to be found among the offspring of royal families, al- has borne it?” 1 jor Sue | closed. of the American Express Company, shot himself through the head In the rear of his office this afternoon and is dying in Vincent's Hospital. For months he brooding over the falling off «# in his branch of the com~ feared the office would be pany Andrews entered the employ of the | company twenty-three years ago as ult, death rate in these] peuttion “he. “held” throt Pimsal ite igh," aho replied, “Yet|Iabor, He lived at No. nw children bave less care from: Avenue te ell | able to decide the question at the a to my mupport ¥ femained a good friend to me. “L knew all about his attachment for Ida Sniffen Waliers from the! very beginning. | also knew of the Agreoment made between Rogers ra and Mrs, Caroline Giddings Rogers, Mayor Approves the Commt whereby she was to grant him a dl-) Attitude on the Mother vorce if he found his attachment for | Ida Walters unbreakable. Both Teacher Question, Mayor Mitchel was asked Rogers and Mrs. Walters, whom I What he thought of the deci now very well and love dearly, told me of this agreement. “Mra, Giddings Rogers went back! State Commissioner of di on the agreement some time last au-| John H. Finley in the moth tumn, Both Rogers and Mrs. Wal-| question, menon, | SAYS SHE DIVORCED ROGERS FOR LOVE Gave Him His Liberty That He Might Be Free to Wed tera told me she had done 90, and! rng question at issue,” wald | Avail they were greatly depressed by this wayor, “han never been, as I gain. action of hers.” uderstood it, whether the ne GRAND JURY WITNESS. Anked about Mrs. Walters, Mr®|teachers have the right to Rogers said: |mothers, but whether, being “Ida and Rogers were very happy, they were entitled to leave " together and both w proud | jabsnea to become mothers, fy of their children. She is a aweet,’ «tn view of the fact that the lovable woman, and I know no reason | have ruled that married wome except sudden insanity which would noid positions as teachers in th Coroner Orders Inquest Into prompt her to do the terrible thing| schools, it Double Tragedy for Week |fievaia. “1 hope that ehe my be Bins rousonatle that they “noua. 9 juitted, so that she may happily | jowed absence if for the From To-Day. married to Rogers.” pecs of materaiyy.” Di Bella, the druggist, went before the Grand Jury to testify that Mrs. ‘Walters bought twenty-five bichloride of mercury tablets on Feb. i914. Julta Carlo, once @ nurse girl in the Rogers home after the birth of the aeoond obild, testified to the amiable relations between Rogers and Mrs. Walters. Other witnesses waiting Were An- tonlo De Belli, the druggist who sold the poison, Policemen Kiley, John- @on and Bruckner of the Highbridge station and Miss Louise Hess, a bos- ital wie lates? fm NN a of nae, ‘alters in the hospital. John Knoeble is foreman of the| hanue sh Grand Jury. Mr. Martin bas conferred with Em- 7h. Buckner, attorney for Mrs. Caroline Giddings Rogers, legal wife of Lorlys Elton Rogers, with a view to summoning her as & Grand Jury | {3 witness, He said to- however, t it It was not Bi sont tatention to inape a subpoe: An unexpected delay in the filing of the divorce suit which Buckner an- nounced was ip preparation on behalf of Mrs. Caruine Giddings posers, has given rise to @ report ti he ie ready to forgive Rogers if makes certain Fer ‘That report hag not been confirmed. Abraham Lavy, aoe for Mre. eaid that a fenae to a murder - one C2 stand trial, ‘subconscious ation.” hen Mra. Walters fed the bichlo- HANDS. “Your hands are beautiful; tney hold a eceptre,” was the story toid phi Beauharnales by # fortune tetter | Martinique. The Empress Josephine, her hour of triumph as wife of the Napoleon, recalled the soothsayer’s ietion. Beautitul hands eway a eceptre fe none the tess absolute than phine’s In many Ameri Coroner Jerome Healy of the Bronx to-day eet the inquest into the deaths of John and Lorida Rogers, the in- fant children of Mre. Ida Sniffen Morris Walters and Lorlys Elton Rogers for a week from to-day. This action was taken after the physicians at Lebanon Hospital had assured the Coroner that Mrs. Wal- tera would be well enough to leave the hospital in a week, The Coroner said that if the Grand Jury had taken action in the case before next Wednesday the inquest would be nferely a matter of form. Otherwise be will undertake a hear- ing of all the witnesses who know anything of the poisoning of the children more than two weeks ago. The first witnesses called before the Bronx County Grand Jury to-day by District Attorney Martin in the Rogers case were Dra. Greenberg and Freund of Lebanon Hospital, who at- tended Mra. Rogers and the children, They were asked to describe the symptoms of all three, and their di- agnosis of them, The physicians eald that all three showed aigns of being affected by | s! bi-chloride of mercury, though be- cause of @ difference in quantity or the resisting power of the adult or- gans, Mrs, Rogers was at no time in very grave danger. The next witness Mrs. Anna Roquemore Rogers, the first wife of Rogers, who divorced him in 1910, ao that he might marry Miss Caroline Giddings. Mrs. Rogers was regarded by District Attorney Martin as bis mosti important witness, because of her intimate knowledge of the affairs Ing your | thoreu nly: min 8 vary” a Mokin does not abe During the ur hands or to srg tie. you in to bed at night, wae in warm water, rub in Vem © iJ ona fr free Velogen well int morning, then wi not absorb. WANT N. Y. SUFFRAGISTS TO PUSH VOTES BILL Republicans and Democrats Favor Measure, but Women Look to Constitutional Convention. ALBANY, Jan. 13.—If New York State Suffragists follow the advice of Majority Leader Hinman they will|0f Rogers before the tragedy and her push their submission resolution | close association with both Rogers through the present eession of .ic| and Mra, Walters since. He expected Legislature regardless of what ¢! to keep her on the etand until late it may have on the action of the| this afternoon. Constitutional Convention. Mrs, Roquemore Rogers, heavily ‘Some of the Suffrage leaders,” sald | Vélled, appeared at the back door of Hinman to-day, “fear a confusion of | the court house at 10.30 o'clock with the ballots glection day if both the|Robert W. de Faaselle, close friend Legislature andy the Constitutional| &nd mouthpiece of Rogers. County Convention approve the suffrage| Detective Walter Crobett served a |amendment. I strongly advise going| subpoena on him. De Fasselle 1 through with the present resolution | sisted that the process was not ne: ‘Then, if the Constitutional Conven-|¢*sery, as he would have teen @ tion did not favor the Suffrage| Willing witness. amendment, the voters would atill be| Before she went before the Grand Jury, Mrs. Roquemore Rogers told District. Attorney Martin all she knew about the love mazes of her divorced hueband, Lorlys Elton Rog- ers. She said that she had given Rog a divorce because she had loved him and was réady to do anything for a man she loved. Rogers, ahe believed, thought Miss Caroline Giddings, for whom he put away his first wife, would inherit a large fortune on the death of her uncle in Chicago, and he was influenced by this considera- tion in his courtehip of Miss Gidd- ings, the first Mra, Rogers thought He induced me to go to Reno and that he might marry | % said Mrs. Rogers,|dred and “and he paid all expenses of the ai tion, Sin shea he hae always helped | ey grandmother. and, at a clase meeting, met pesca i Nee Ba, FINDS PNEUMONIA CURE. ja Decter Saye Germ Yields to Formalin. PHILADELPHIA, Jan, 13.—Pneumo- nia, from which 100,000 persons in the United Btates die each year, fe being conquered ™® the Samaritan Hospital tn this city. Dr, G. Morton Miman, who te tached to that institution, has during wo mo! theese proved successful “LT have experimented on @ score sf said Dr. Iliman to-day, ach case have fre with Scena ane Evelyn Nesbit Now appearing in vaudeville phonon an advanced Spring | “London, borh res Hat, fall election. Local law makers assert that the Suffragists have called a halt on the resolution now before th Assembly until they can confer with Senator Root at Washington. It was pointed out that the women, if they decide against action by the Legislature, may bave to come before a committee and argue against the adoption of their resolution, The present temper of the Legislature augurs well for the early passage of the Suffrage m ure. The Republican legislators, with &@ working majority in both Houses, as a whole, favor the bill. 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