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GOVERNOR STANDS FIRM
VXAFFECTED BY CRITICS.
Only Practical Way to Make Party
Xominations Responsible.
Albany. rS. i^f the criticism levied at
- Govemer Hugh's plan for prtmarr reform ha.
not affected 0. W«* m the least. If "Vthlng. £c
■U* cf criticism has confirmed him i«^ hi. **»"
- tfcat this is the o*ly pr-ct.^. practicable «> O «
•**!„ *oa* responsibility for party n°^ n *" c "
= a*c at ttc aame time give V, the ran k and file ol
- party voter* ar opportunity to say their .ay about
t ,mo «hall be candidates.
. The Governor wa* at the E*~"tiv«Chamb«- to
' ' Cay for the nr» time sine* he outlined his nomi
- bating committee scheme at Brooklyn on Saturday
' night He declined to discuss Ms view, for pub.
• cation. He has net been so reticent, however, with
friends who have sought to lean, what Impression
.' th stream ©f criticism of his plan ha* made on
tin:, and bis position is well understood here.
A* a matter of fact, the Governor ha* ; been some
- wti»t abused by the fashion in which all the critics
" of fci. direct primary recommendation before they
..'knew the plan he ksji in mind have changed their
bare of action since his speech.
"They were shelling a position, and were sur
— prised and grieved, when the smoke cleared awiy.
to team the Governor was not there." was the way
one of M* friends expressed it.
It Feems also, that this was no new position for
the G^ernnr Always he has regarded himself as
a party man and a loyal Republican, regardless of
what his opponents l r - « h at party thought, and
,kw fee recommended primary changes he did It
with us intention of destroying or disrupting his
o»n party or any other. Without having worked
cut the details of hi* plan as he gave them at
Erooklyn. or as eventually they will be embodied
in the bill to be presented, he had in mind a plan
for centralising party responsibility regarding
nominations and for giving the enrolled voters an
opportunity to pass «n the list of candidates for
nomination before th- nominations anally were
mad*. Incidentally. *>• believed that there should
be surrounding the primaries all the safeguards
row «r-p!i'*d to elections, including an official bal
let and Ilmltatien of expenses, and that the state
should assume the expense of thus guarding the
primary system.
TOOK POSITION ADVISEDLY.
The Geverncr-s friends say he took this position ,
advisedly, after long study, and is determined t» ,
stand by it new. since tie believes In It wholly. He j
thinks it is one thing to criticise a plan, but quite j
r=r another te devise one which would be workable
"- and hay* the courage te put It out and hay* It
voted up or v»ted down. Hughes men say there t.
much misconception about the great expense" and
th« number of candidates which this plan would
bring ferth. As for the "two elections" argument,
the Governor ie a believer in the good old-fashioned
campaign where the questions at issue are fought
■- cut in public at length.
His plan, his friends who have analysed it say,
feas these advantages:
Party committee? chosen directly by the enrolled
voters and answer.- tie to them.
Publicity regarding the organisation candidates
Tims far full criticism of organization candidates
and eppertunitj to turn them down at the prt-
K A»i"e«l«ial f»riniarF ballot and ether primary safe
~" guards at the expense of the state.
In ether words, the proposed system would put
Into effect ell advantage* anybody could claim for
the existing system, with all the improvements
urg»d by its friends, ana in addition a new process
"' in the system giving ail the advantages of publicity
' and responsibility fixed by law, and the cheek of
the primary referendum."
ARGUMENT NOT TAKEN SERIOUSLY,
v The argument that this system would give to the
- party leader far greater power than he could hope
to have under The convention system is not taken
Seriously by the Governor and his supporters.
:"■?> —Hew many control the nominations for state of
ficers under the present system •'" asked one. "Not
more than half a dezen, and In some instances it
: . wouldn't be hard to pick out the interests actuating
them. Now, whom are the state committeemen
. . responsible to under the proposed plan' The party
.-" veter*. Who are talking loudest against this great
poser te b« given to the state committeemeii? The I
«at« committeemen themselves. This Is just an- I
. . other man of straw."
. ~ There is little change in the situation here. The
primary bill is not completed yet; In tact, there
is still feme disagreement among the upstate mem
bers about the basis of representation for party
" committee* and other detail*. When it comes
aiMsg. and only then, will it be possible to judge
T accurately of the wntlment regarding it In the
"*-• Legislature. The Governor's friends are feeling ,
•well satisfied with prospects, and say that the senti
ment around the state in favor of the proposed
changes is so great that no Legislature would care
3 - to withstand it.
BILL TO AMEXD C. S. LAW.
- Assemblyman O'Brian Introduces
Five Changes at Albany.
Albasy. Feb. 2*.— Fly« amendments to the Civil
; Service jaw »-ere introduced to-day by Assembly
. man O'Brian. One prohibits officers or employes of
the state, or any of its civil divisions or cities, to
use efflcis.! influence fer the purpose of Interfering
with an election or affecting its result. Person?
holding positions in the classified service are pro
hibited from taking part in the management of
political campaign*. power is given the state and
municipal Civil Service commissions to Impose pen
.alties for violations. Another bill requires a cer
tificate from th? state or municipal commission to
tbe disbursing officer to the effect that all provi
sions of the Civil Service law have been complied
with by the person to be paid.
A third bill give* any taxpayer the right to bring
an action In the Supreme Court to restrain pay
ment of salary to any person holding office in vio
' latiea of Civil Service la*, even though such place
:s cot subject to competitive examination. The
' Csurtn Mil include* m the exempt cUm one deputy
erf fach principal executive officer authorized to
met in place of hi* principal, instead of all the depu
tles of such executive officer. The fifth bill gives
municipal Clvtl Service comfnl«lonn certain powers
granted to the BSsWJ commission for the purpose
of MjveMigatia* the effect of the Civil Service law.
FISCAL SUPERVISOR ASKS $526,065.
Albany. Feb. !».— Charles M Bisrell. Fiscal -Su
.■ ps 11 Ilain1 lain of Stat* Charities, to-day sent to the
| Legislature his recommendations for appropriations
for new buiUSlhgs. extraordinary repairs and lm-
Face the Facts
We see the dawn of better times in
fewer calls for aid than a year ago.
But the American Federation of Labor
reports that over 35^ of organized
workers are still unemployed in New
York City.
Have you $5 to feed a hungry mother and
few children one week? R. S. Mir.turn,
Tref»., Room 212, No. 105 East 224 St.
K. Ft I TON CrTTI>G. ?»e^«rat.
N. 7. ASM-CIATIO.V TCP. - IMPFUSVt>q THE.
CONDITION- OF THE PuOfL
provemente for the state Institutions under his
Jurisdiction. The recommendations were in the
form of a bill railing for an aggregate expenditure
of $525.065.
ELIHV ROOT AT ALB AX Y.
Expected to Refer to Direct Pri
maries in Speech To-night.
[By Telegraph to The Tribune.]
Albany, Feb. •*.— Senator-elect Elihu Root ar
rived here to-day from Hot Springs. He is to
make the chief speech to-morrow night at the
Barnes organisation dinner, and. In view ef his
advocacy of direct primaries at the Saratoga Con
vention and State Chairman Woodruffs direct
statement at the Brooklyn dinner that Mr. Root
now was against that eyatem. there is much In
terest regarding his address.
Mr Root visited the Capitol, where he eat for a
time hearing the women argue over suffrage. In
cidentally, he had interviews with several legis
lators and political leader* He said that what
ever he had to say on political subjects be would
say in his speech to-morrow night. He did, how
ever, express hie disapproval of woman suffrage.
"I was a member of the constitutional conven
tion that discussed that question at length." he
said, "and there I made a speech against woman
suffrage. I have not seen that conditions have
changed since then."
Mr. Root had an hours talk with Governor
Hughes this evening. Neither would discuss it
beyond to indicate that it was in the nature of a
social visit.
State Chairman Woodruff came to town, to-night
and took dinner with Lieutenant Governor White.
They both are to speak at the Barnes dinner also.
OPPOSE 'MCGGIXG' BILL.
High Police Officials Say It Would
Please Crooks.
I By Tclagnph to Th« Tribune. 1
Albany. Feb. M— Strong support from the Tam
mar.y Hall cohort of police court lawyers In the
Legislature appeared to-day at a hearing before
the Joint Cedes committees for the Caffrey and
Grady bills, designed to prevent the "mugging" or
photographing and measuring of persons arrested
for the commission of crime until after formal con
viction. Heated by Inspector McCanVrty. of the
New York Det»etiv* Bureau, there was a delega
tion of police officers from about every large city
In the state to oppose the bills. They declared that
the passage of such bills would be an invitation to
thieves and burglars to come to this state to
plunder.
"The crook« in New Tork would build bonflres for
Joy if these bills pawed.' testified MCafferty.
"Chief Hyatt, of Albany, and Chief Humphrey, of
the New York Centrals police bureau, also op
posed the bills.
Assemblymen Bohan, from "The" KcHanus's
district, Cuvillier. from Percy Nagles bailiwick,
and Stern, who does police court work. Senator
Caffrey and occasionally Senator Grady heckled
McCafferty and the other chiefs unmercifully, th
Assembly contingent to such a degree that Chair
man Murphy of the Assembly Codes Committee
finally declared their conduct h*d pone beyond all
limits, and peremptorily called a halt to it. Pick-
Ing up a chance remark ef McCafferty about the
number of crooks abroad in New York. Bohan
asked him If he meant just that.
"We!^ I'll call your attention to a case of a crook
In which you made yourself very busy," retorted
McCafferty.
"Are there any pictures of present police officers
In your gallery asked Bohan. tartly.
MeCafferty said that the proportion of photo
graphs of innocent men taken now would be as
1 to MO of the crooks who would escape under the
proposed law.
"Well, the law says better a thousand guilty
should escape than one innocent suffer," inter
jected CuvllUer.
"That may be good enough f«r humanitarian*.
but we couldn't run the Police Department that
•way." oald McCafTerty. Incidentally he said he
had never believed that Paul Kelly, the motorman
pent tc Sing Sing for the Ninth avenue elevated
aerirjent. should have been convicted. "Policemen
have heart*, as well as other people," said he.
■ Where do they carry them?" jeered Steri;
•'Nf>t in their pecketP, where some people carry
theirs." declared the New York inspecto:.
• "uviHier wanted to know about the 'third de
gree" McCafferty said the reported third degree
was a myth now. whatever it might have l>een in
the past.
Inspector McCafferty read an extract of a letter
pent by President -elect Taft to John W. Jacobus, a
United States marshal of New York, in which the
President-elect upheld the custom of photographing
known criminals.
Sidney Roscnburg. of the I^auterbach law firm,
who appeared In tht A. O. Brown ft Co. defence,
argued for the bills.
OPINIONS AFFECT BARGE CANAL.
o'Malley Says State May Accept and Main
tain Each Mile as Completed.
Albany. Feb. IK.— Attorney General O'Malley cave
to-day two opinions to the Canal Board affecting
the construction of the barge canal. In one he
holds that the state can legally enter Into a con
tract on the barge canal by which the work con
racted for will be divided intu section of one mile
each, and the contractor authorized, on the com
pletion of each separate mile, to turn it over to
the state and be released from the necessity of
maintaining It.
This opinion affects the awarding of contract No.
»». providing for the dredging of the Mohawk River,
for which bids were asked four times without get
ting a contractor to agree to do the work within
the State Engineer's estimate, which was about
14.00f.0ee, owing, it is said, t« the uncertainty at
tached to th» cost of maintaining the work after
its completion. ■
. Tlse other opinion feeids that the state may aban
don, and dispose of such land as has been appro
priated for the barge canal and which is net act
ually Beaded.
CATCH MAN AFTER 15 MONTHS' CHASE.
Campbell. Accused of Using Mails to Defraud,
Found in Portland, Ore.
Boston. Feb. 34.— Following a trail which led
them across, the continent, local post office inspect?
ors reported to-day that they had overtaken in
Portland, Ore.. Arthur L* Campbell, well known in
Boston. Providence and Hartford as a dealer in
mining stock, who will be brought back here to
stand trial on a charge of using the malls in a
scheme to defraud.
Campbell was arrested in Hartford on November
IS. l-«il. and a month later was indicted by the
federal grand jury. A bond of 11,500 failed to keep
him in Boston, and for nearly a year inspectors
have been seeking him in many cities.
EXPORTERS' ENCYCLP/CDIA FOR 1909.
"The Exporters' £ncvel->p.edn for l»jfi," a 6»-page
volume containing complete information of the
shipping requirements and regulations of foreign
countries, has Just been issued by Its publishers.
The guide Is supplemented each month by correc
tion notes, and th* number of subscribers in this
city has now increased to nearly three thousand.
The present MBISJBS ie the fifth of the series.
PILE* ( I RED IN » TO 14 DAYS
PA2Q . OIMSJE>'! i* «-ii*ranU«<l to cur« it, clv
• ( Itcnlr-e. Bllr.i. B>ecla B or Protrujlus Plica in «
v« I* a»,» or 3*»at, rcfundca- Me
XEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 25, 1909.
WOMEN INVADE ALBANY
Continued from first pas*.
] great natural distinctions between men and
| women must be observed if we arc , to ■ luw c rea
progress. .Nature was really the first anti-»u«
f racist when she made woman different from
man. There Is no question <4 *•*-** be
tween the sexes, no supposition that women are
inferior. Furthermore, this has led to a division
!of labor that antedates civilization Its. As
President Butler of Columbia ha. . «W. The
equality of the sexes cannot be made to mean
identity of function/ " w-.th's
During the profoundest part of «£ ££* £
! paper Asssemblyman Klein had he *•»«*££
go to sleep, and there arose a twitter at ™™* T
Ltion. wse- began to get louder
throughout the chamber. Suddenl> Senator
Davi, rapped for order, and a*ked the women to
give their attention to the speaker. Quiet »as
restored, and Assemblyman Klem woke with a
i "m™. WiUiam For,e Scott, ol^Yonkers of th.
I the committee In opposition to the measure, ..Id
In part:
in the development of < fr* woman has b
ccme functionally better fitted^ ffopr p occupa i tnan for
modes of thought v hlch . are . ", ° heavy labor of the
those which are poiitteal. The £ c as it is In some
, world should not b laid "P 0 " hr^ fl n ,; peasants.
exceptional cases among « sl J« r *h£ract Impersonal
! Nor should she be "fined to abs trag • J™^ by
modes of thought. The family Isl heio i . s
\ the love «nd sympathy and P^^^c at
I wife and mother -Z tr JltlofT&piA intuition, of
I the ccx. as are the traits OI ™i characteristics
! imagination, of emotion The cna r
! which most insure mm ' ,!".£, any promise of
statesmanship. ti-at the corrective and coercive
We maintain that the co^"', ) , at (lf t be law,
: the he* and broadest «"»»«" order that women!
; no, necessarily ,-ed.i ra tl o n in , order »» ma-
national
ideals.
BISHOPS GRANDDAUGHTER TALKS.
Miss Margaret Doane Gardiner, granddaugh
; ter of Bishop Doane of Albany, opposed the
i proposition. She said in part:
| There are forty-six *««, *ta tfaV UntonX Ijjjtour
r^vr^en^co^j ferer^is
Chicago in im. Denver not 19 1 the^in 189 8
ass on-'h'"'.' wvsrtSni.
! though woman suffrage ha. not been realized in
! a n ise n at" r "In political offices the women^ almost
invariably bold subordinate positions and ""^jJE
influence ettber tor good or evil You see^that tnis
Is a man who has come to * te "*« w s2Ts-foVilie
I tics, though he thought quite otherwise be. ore ne
I M £ !t to r !£lucatlon m many states. . includlng-our
own. women have the school franchises and »se It
practically not at all. because voting . he mechani
cal and mathematical method, Is " ot w (nd ' 1 !
; natural way of affecting public opinion and tonm
' tlnns
Other speakers for the 'ant is" were Mr?.
'■ Bernard Bartow. chairman of the Erie County
1 Committee of the State Charities Aid Ai«socia
< lion- Mrs. William Phelps Northrup, of Buffalo;
j Mrs. Robert McVicker, of Mount Vernon. presi
! dent of the State Consumers' League, and Mrs.
i Rossiter Johnson, president of the Guidon Club
! of New York.
Mrs. Henry Villard. of the State Woman's
! Suffrage Association, introduced the suffragist
j speakers, who. among other things, made a
I pathetic appeal to the Judiciary committees to
i "release this prisoner of ours," meaning the
! resolution which they have boon bowing to have
[reported favorably for the last twelve years.
I Mrs. VUlard said, in part:
As a people, we are easily moved by oratorical
declaration? regarding human brotherhood, th
risht to liberty, to Justice an.l the pursuit ■ of happi-
X ° great wave of sentiment has Just r r*
over the Sir,- in connection with the fob blrth
dav of Abraham Lincoln. Its sincerity, can «">»>»£
tested by th* uplift it may give to the poor ana
the lowly who were object* of compassion to Lin
coln's tender heart Why are not women Included
in that noble phrase, whlch-ls still ringing pur
ears that ••government of the people, by the peo-
P " and for the people .hull no! perish from the
earth"? it Is time that In this great state of New
York of the great American Union. and In other
states -government by the ssopts" shall not .be
limited In its application to one sex. in many states
to less than one-half of the adult population.
Lincoln knew that no country can exist half slave,
half free, and In the present state cf the worlds
political progress, no man is considered really free
without a ballot to defend his freedom. Vie
women- of this state, who pay taxes, who ever
Increasing hundreds of thousands are compelled to
earn our livelihoods In shop. In factory and in of
fice, are simply raising the well remembered ban
ner of revolt of 1776. "no luxation without rep
resentation." We ask your committee only that
you report favorably to the Legislature this bill.
MRS. SHAW'S REMARKS.
•We are not trying to convert you to woman
suffrage," said the Rev. Anna H. Shaw. "All
we ask is that you give it to the people to
decide. Are you afraid to report this bill be
cause you have no confidence in the intelligence
of your colleagues in the Legislature, or la it
because you have no confidence In the people
who elected' you? If they elected you they
surely must have intelligence to vote on this
proposition." ' .
Mrs. Shaw said that it had been argued that
| women should not vote because she cannot fight.
"She can fight, and many of them well," she
i declared, militantly, "but I never heard that it
I was necessary for a man to fight In order to
j vote. No man is called upon to fight after he
i is forty-five years old, and then he is Just get
■ ting to be an intelligent citizen. To vote does
i not rest with a man's Intelligence in New York
I Man has the right to vote merely because he Is
I a mate human being, not because he can fight.
j nor because he is moral or virtuous."
Several of the other speakers took particular
pleasure in saying that women should vote
because they pay taxes, are. better educated and
i often more intelligent than men.
I Mrs Frances Graham, of Lockport, president
lof the local Woman's Christian Temperance
j Union, declared that "while we are not angels —
Iwe don't want to be yet — when you fail to give
! us the right to vote you are disfranchising the
: better half at the government."
Mrs. Frederick Nathan, president of the Con
j sumers' League, brought forth a box in which
[ were planted all th» flags of all the countries in
which one form or another of woman's suffrage
' had been adopted, and showed that the United
■ States as a nation was far behind in this re
: sppct. The flags she had represented New Zea
j land, Australia. Finland, Norway, the Isle of
; Man, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, England, Scot
1 land, Ireland, Wales and Canada.
Mrs. Dexter P. Rumsey, of Buffalo, repre
j senting the Western New York Federation of
i Women's Clubs, said that the antis argued that
| every woman was represented by BOOM man in
f politics.
"But that is not so in my case," she said.
I "because ray husband never voted tho way I
j wanted him to," which brought forth loud laugh
■ ter from Senator Davis and other members of
i the committees.
Other women who spoke for the suffragists
were Mrs. Ella H. Crossett, president of the {few
York State Woman's Suffrage Committee; Miss
Harriet A. Mills, vice-president of the New York
State Suffrage Association; Miss Leonora
O'Reilly, of New York, representing the Self-
Supporting: League of New York; Mrs. Lillie D.
Blake, president of the Legislative I«a»/ue of
New York; Mrs. Florence Kelly, vice-president
of the National Woman's Suffrage Association;
Mrs. George H. Lewis, of Buffalo; Mrs John
Winters Brannan, president of the Equal Fran
chise League, of New York; Mrs. Helen Z- M.
Rogers, a lawyer of Buffalo, and Mrs. Gabriel S.
Mulln-er. chairman of the State Federation of
Woman's Club.
Oth-r prominent suffragists in attendance in
cluded Miss Harriet M. Mills, vice-president;
Miss Alice Williams, corresponding secretary,
and Miss Annie E. Merritt, treasurer of the
State Woman Suffrage Association; Mrs. D. M.
O«=borne of Auburn, whose mother.. Mrs. Wright,
was tne first president of the state association;
Mrs. rieorge Howard Lewis, of Buffalo, who was
faffveattal in securing the law giving mothers
an erjual guardianship with fathers; Mrs Dexter
P. Rumsey. of Buffalo: Mrs. A. S. Capwel!. pres
ident of the Erie County Woman Suffrage As
sociation; Mrs. Mary G. Craigie, of Brooklyn, a
former chairman of the associations legislative
■aaunMto*; Mrs. Max Pwartz. of Syracuse, who
has charge of the Woman's Building at the State
Knir. and Miss Ann Miller, of Geneva, and oth
ers.
Th<> delegation of anti-suffragists from New \
York included Mrs. Arthur M Dodge, Mrs. Will- .
lam P. Xorthrup, Mrs. Francis S. Bangs. Mrs.
Geor«e Phillips, Mrs. Frits Aehelio, Miss H. ;
Chittenden, Mrs. Charles H. Denison. Mrs. Bar- j
clay Ha«ard, Mrs. William F. Scott, Mrs. Otto
Kiliani, all of whom are officers of the associa
tion; Mrs. Henry Seligman, Mrs. Henry Bisc-hoff,
Mrs James McKeen. Mrs. Everett P. Wheeler,
Miss Jeannette Glider, Mrs. Francis H. Kinni. ut,
Mrs. nWry Ide and others.
In addition tl.ere »rri-ved in Albany to-day i
delegation from the National Progressive
Women* Suffrage Union headed by Mrs B. ,
Boor nan Wells, who was one of the organizers
of the woman suffrage movement in England.
GIRL DEFEATED SUFFRAGIST BILL.
Father Cast Deciding Vote in Kansas After
Conferring with Her. '
(By Telegraph to The Tribune.
Topeka. Kan., Feb. HISS Mona D. Ryan, a
young vaudeville actress, is directly responsible
for the defeat of the woman's suffrage bill in the
Kansas Legislature. Miss Ryan, who is a daugh
ter of S. L. Ryan, of Hiawatha, a member of the
Kansas Legislature, spent last week with her
father here. When the bill came up Ryan asked
his daughter, Jokingly: "How would you vote?"
••Against It," she replied. "I don't believe politics
is the place for women. It cheapens them In the
eyes of men."
■ T\e talked to only one woman about this," said
Ryan, as he voted. "She is my daughter, and she
paid to vote against it. That's the way I shall
vote.
The bill was lost by a vote of 59 to 5".
SOUTH DAKOTA SUFFRAGISTS WIN.
Pierre, S- £>-, Feb. 34.— An equal suffrage bill
whs passed by -he Ho:se to-day by a vote SC •«
to m Ar a similar bill was passed in the Senate
carl] i" Hie session nnd barely failed In the House,
suffragists are jubilant over the. outlook to-night.
WAGNER RESOLUTION ADOPTED.
Calls on P. S. Board to Declare When It Will
Decide on Coney Island Fare.
(By Telegraph to Th» Tribune. ]
Albany. Feb. 24.— The Wagner resolution calling
on the Public Sen Ice Commission to declare ap
proximately when it would render a decision on the
Coney Island ."-cent fare case was adopted to-day
hy the Senate. Senators Aiids and Hinman and
one ,• two other* thought it should go to commit
tee Senators Raines, Crady and the introducer
defended it. Senator Walnwrlght said that last
year as chairman of the Assembly Railroads Com
mittee he had to look up the whole ease, and had
Us own opinion on the merits of a r-cent fare.
Nerwtheleaa he believed the commission had been
too long in making Its decision on the 10-cent fare
c<"ir,;>lalnt.
The Assembly passed the Cities Committees reso
lution directing the Public Service Commission of
the Ist District to report to the Legislature the
rights and franchises under which the New York
Central Railroad retains Its tracks in Kleventh ave
nue. Manhattan. Assembly man Hoey said the com
inlMlon already had svnl the plan* for the removal
of t lie tracks to the Cities Committee.
After ■ long dehate. the Assembly passed C. F.
Murphy's bill adding two Justices temporarily to
the Court of Special Sessions in the First vision.
New fork City. The bill Mas recommended by the
commission to inquire Info the courts of inferior
jurisdiction in first class cities.
SAW MOLLER JUST BEFORE DEATH.
Young Woman Visits Morgue, and Says She
Was with Lieutenant Previous to His Suicide.
a well dressed young woman visited the Morgue
yesterday and looked at th» body of Lieutenant
John J. Holler, who shot himself to denth on Mon
day night in the Grant! Unlea Hotel.
T. young woman would not tell bar name or ad
drees or say whether she was a relative of Lieu
tenant Holler. She said that She had SSM the lieu
tenant two hours before he killed himself, and that
she had then gone to Philadelphia. She learned
tlinugh a newspaper of bis death, and she came
here immediately.
From the Morgue the young woman went to
Bellevue Hospital, where she talked with the Rev.
Mr. Dyer, the Episcopal chaplain of that institu
tion. He referred her to Chaplain Smith, at Gov
ernor's Island, for information as to whether the
body would be interred by the army or by rela
tives.
STILL WANTS LEDERLE APPOINTED..
Local Civil Service Commission Asks State
Board to Reconsider.
Th» Roard Of Water Supply has renewed its re
ta tlie Mwncijiai <ivll Service CeSaaslSSieSJ
f..r authority to appoint Brnest J. Kederle, sf We.
471 West 143 d street an expert in sanitary affairs,
v.i i a salary Of SMIOM a year. The SMbjest SSSBS
u|i f"r disposal at ilie meeting of the local ssea*
ml«sion to-day.
The local Civil Psrvlea commission once before
aj> roved this application, but tbe State Civil Ser
mmlnslon disapproved the appointment. say-
Ing that Mr. I^ederle wn« already receiving $i,OOO a
mar for work on another comTiisslon. The local
commission however, again approved yesterday th*
iei •ntmendntlon of the Water Beard. Secretary
Bpeneei mid Mr. I.enerle's name would be »»nt a
se.- >nd time to Albany for approval by the state
eentSßlsstes).
ARGUMENT FOR STANDARD OIL FINE.
Maximum May Be $10,000,000 or Only $720,
000, According to Court's View.
< hicasx>. Feb. 24 -While the federal jury com-
Bllsjston was engaged to-day in obtaining a new
panel of one hundred and flfty veniremen. from
which t" «>elect a jury for the retrial of fhv Sand
il Company of Indiana for the alleged ac
ceptance of rebates, I'nited States District Judge
Anderson listened to arguroent ;;s to what shall
form the banis of each offence chargt'il
.1 >hn 8. Miller, for the defence, pleaded that tl»e
settlements of freipht charges, of which there were
thirty-six in the present ca;>e. should form the
f th. government's charges. I'istrict Ai
t<irf\ Sims argued that each shipment consti
tuted a sepsrat* offence. tinder the latter con
slruction of the law a maximum fine of $io,i«y>,h^) \s
poHsible; under th<- former one of J7o<ii««i.
. FEAR TAX ON COFFEE.
The fear that a tax may be placed upon coffee
is responsible, It Is -aid. for the enormous move
ment of coffee to this country at the present time.
Shipments are coming, not only from South Amer
ica and other :iffee-giuwlng 1 untiles but from
Kurope. -Two steamers from Havre have just
brought- in 24.600 bugs, and, according to the Coffee
K>i:hange returns, there were warehoused In (his
port on Saturday last 3,05»,42$ bags, which, includ
ing the. storks in Baltimore and New Orleans,
makes a total In the United Mates of nearly four
million bags. There are MMM bags on their way
to this port from Hraßi! alone, and there are other
la» Re shipments either afloat or bei.ig discharged
here.
ARREST FIFTEEN PITTSBURG NEGROES.
Piitsburg. Feb. 24. — Just when the authorities be
lifved the recent trouble in this city between whites
ard blacks, as a result of assaults on white girls.
v as at an end, another 'white girl was the victim
el an attempted assault late last night. Early to
day the police had arrested fifteen negroes charged
With' being suspicious persons. . '
TREASURY HEAD TO-DAS
Continued front Brat pace.
main entrance of the theatre and in the entrance
hall. As Mr. Taft entered the auditorium the.
play was stopped and the audience cheered the
President-elect for four minutes. Mr. Taft
bowed his appreciation.
POIXTS TO MACVEAGH.
Failure to Attend Bank Meeting,
Friends Say", Indicates Acceptance.
Chicago. Feb. 24. —Franklin MacVeagh. of
Chicagro. will be Secretary of the Treasury bs
the Taft Cabinet, according to the belief of his
closest business associates. The fact that h«
bmke his custom of years in not attending the
last meeting of the board of directors of the
Commercial National Bank, of which h a is
chairman, is regarded as practically conclusive
evidence of his acceptance.
To qualify for the Treasury portfolio it would
be necessary for Mr. MacVeagh to sell his bank
stock and sever his official connection with the
Institution. That he is quietly preparing to do
so Is believed by those In the best position to
know.
HUDSOX XO "DISCOVERER"
So Treasury Department Intimates
—Tablet Held Up.
The title of Henry Hudson to the appellation of
""discoverer" has been called In question by Beek
man Winhrop. Ass:.«tant Secretary of the Trea&ury.
This unexpected development, on the ere of the
Hudson-FultOS. celebration, w.is the pubjert of con
siderable comment at the meeting of the New York
Society of Founders and Patriots of America, held
at the Hotel Manhattan last nigr.t.
About two years ago a committee was appointed
by the society. to take steps preliminary to placing
a tablet on the walls of the new Custom House,
in commemoration of Henry Hudson's "discovery."
the ouilding of fort Amsterdam by the Dutch on
that site, and the demolition of fort George, its
■accessor. In 1790. At last nights meeting Theo
dore Fitch submitted the committee's report, ir.
which was quoted correspondence with the Treas
ury Department, whose approval was required for
the consummation of the plan. A letter received
from Assistant Secretary Winthrop Incloses a
copy of a letter Pf-nt to Secretary Cortelyou by W.
L Kinhardi. In the course of this letter Mr.
Kunhardt said:
It i« not strictly accurate to say that Hendrick
Hudson discovered the Hudson River. That river
was visited by at least two earlier navigators, Ver
ratano and Gomez, and its presence was shown on
the l»k map of 1580 as a strait connecting tbe St.
Lawrence with th«= Atlantic.
A design of the proposed tablet, drawn by J. A.
R. 1-amh. on which Hudson was called the ' dis
r..ver«w" ot the Hudson River, had been submitted
SS the society for approval. Mr Winthrop said in
his letter:
From this letter you will note that the accuracy
of the legend on the tablet is questioned, and It
is suggested that before further action is taken in
the matter you have the statement verified and
advise this office of the change. if any, that you
consider advisable.
Mr. Fitch remarked that the allegations of Mr.
Kunhardt were apparently true. "However." he
said. "Henry Hudson was, for all practical pur
pose*, the discoverer of the Hudson River. If we
are to be too technical in our definitions, and ac
i ept as discoverers only such white men as were
the first to view any portion of the earth, we
would have to say that Christopher Columbus Tiad
not discovered America, aw this continent had been
visited by Norsemen many centuries before."
Mr. Fitch suggested that the report of the com
mittee be accented and that the said committee
be empowered te act. without further suggestion
from, the society. In approval of any changes that
might be necessary.
•'We use the name Henry instead of Hendrick,"
said Mr. Fitch, "because Hudson, we believe, was
an Englishman and spelled his name that way."
Mr Fitch's suggestion was put in the form of a
resolution and unanimously adopted.
TELLS HOW SHE KILLED HUBBAND.
Italian Girl Takes Stand in Her Own Defence
at Trial in Brooklyn.
Mrs. Rosa Gratzione. a twenty-year-old Italian
girl, went on the stand In the County Court, Brook
lyn, yesterday, where her trial on the charge of
murder in the second degree began before Judge
Dike, ifhd told why she shot her husband. Dominion
Gratzione, in their home. No. 68 Adams street,
Brooklyn, en August IS.
She said that he had abused her during their six
months of married life, and that on the morning of
the shooting he had tied her to the floor with a
rope and said he would force her to lead a life of
immorality.
■ I went out and bought a revolver after he said
that. ' the giri testified, "and came back to the
bevse. I simply couldn't do what he said he would
make me. He was standing with his back to me.
looking in a mirror, when I came in tfce house and
phot him."
Captain Ale¥ander Pinkerton. formerly in charge
of the lower Kuiton street station, Brooklyn, said
Mrs. QratalOfM canst to the station and surrendered
Ml sell after the shooting, carrying the revolver In
a paper bag.
The jury was secured in twelve minutes. Mrs-
Gratzione is represented by Martin W. Manton.
Assistant District Attorney Robert H. Roy opened
for the prosecution.
W. E. EDJdISTER NEW PRESIDENT.
Succeeds Silas B. Dutcher as Head of Hamil
ton Trust Company.
Willard K. Edmister has been chosen to succeed
the late Silas B. Dutcher as president of the Ham
ilton Trust Company, of Brooklyn. His selection
comes as a surprise to banker*, as it had been
iiippeeed that the office would go either to William
Berr). the retired carpet man. who is first vie»
preeldent. or else to George Hadden, the third vice
president and secretary of the company. Mr. Ed
mister had not been thought of by outsiders.
Mr. Edmlster had been Mr. Dutcher's partner in
the Insurance business for the last twenty-five
years. He is a director of the Metropolitan Bank,
a trustee of the Dime Savings Bank and a member
of the Chamber of Commerce of Manhattan. He
has lived In the Bedford district for many years,
and is prominent in religious work.
ACCUSE NEWPORT MAN OF THEFT.
Official of Building Association Charged with
Embezzlement of $4,000.
Newport. R. 1.. Feb. That Hermannus
Klaasens, secretary of the Newport Co-operative
Association for Savings and Building, was wanted
by the police on a charge of embezzlement, was
announced late to-day, following a special meeting
of the directors of the association. Klaasens is
said to have been missing since last Saturday.
According to the auditors of the association, a
check for J4.000. which he received a few days ago
for the association, and Is said to have cashed. Is
not accounted for on the. books. There Is no
other deficiency. The association Includes in its
membership some of the leading citizens of New
port. "TT
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GETS THE HALF MILLIOX.
President Timing Tclh Alumni of
Western R curve's Success.
Charles F. Ti-.wing. president of the Wester?
Reserve University, of Cleveland, announced at
the annual reunion and dinner si th- WsW Tor*
alumni, at Kail! >. last night, that the ****>££
ditional to a gift of SIS.OM from the General Edu
cation Board, had been raised. The money ■ to M
used for the further endowment of the two under
graduate ..-..lieges. Adelbert and the Col!e?e for
Women. _
The other speakers were Professor (jeorge T.
1.ad.1 »nd Professor F. M. Warren, of Tale; Dr.
Joslah Strong president of the American instil"
for Social Service, and the Rev. Edgar S. "X iers. Si
Montclair.
Professor I.add. who was for several tnontns m
the service of the Emperor of Japan, offered as »
solution of" the Japanese situation an encounter
be.ween two battleships, the one from, this country
to be commanded by Captain Hobson and maanes
by representatives and senators of bellicose ex
position, and the other to be commanded sns
manned by Japanese Jingoes, the two to .-•■ >-
out. The survivors. Professor Ladd said, sacuie
be placed on an island to live down their ani
mosities. - " a
The toastmaster was Newton B. Hobart. o
Greenwich. Conn. Officers were ejected as f*Uß*7"f * UB *7"
President. William Ford Vpson; vice-president. t=s
Rev. Edgar S. Wiers. secretary, Victor Mills; treas
urer. James W. Carpenter.
PHYSICIAN DIES ON SHIPBOARD.
The body of Dr. Ernesto Estrado Santa Marts. •
young physician of Medellina.- Colombia. arrJvea
here yesterday on the Hamburg-American U=«r
Prinz August Wilhelm. Dr. Santa *•"» ****£
hoarded the steamer as a passenger at Coles »
week ago. Maria had been graduated recwtlr
Dr. Santa Maria had been graduated recemw
from the college at Bogota, and waa on his way
Paris to complete Ms studies in medicine.^ AMWM
he had been a sufferer from an acute «•*"•
the kidney,, he was in good spirits when he JU**
from Colon. It is said that death was eausea
an overdose of morphine which Dr. Santa Ma-*
had taken to relieve the pain caused by the d.»- _