The evening times., 1899-01-06
Erie Medical Co., Buffalo, NY.
MAY INVESTIGATE THE
OPERATIONS OF POLICE
THINKS EVILS SERIOUS
Sentiments of the New Governor on
the Question of Woman
Suffrage.

Albany, NJ Y, Jan. eff Gov. Roose-
welt has any well defined ideas as to what
he will do with the police department of
New York city, where, he says, the evils
have become very serious he does not
disclose them in conversation with those
who inquire as to his purposes.
The governor parties all inquiries about
the police department with great skiil.
He is said to be perfectly aware OF the
fact that abuses exist TO quite as great,
If net to greater, degree than prior TO
the investigation of the Lexow committee.
The thought is advanced here that the
governor in this matter will be guided
very largely by what he thinks he will be
able to accomplish, rather than by wnat
he thinks ought to be accomplished. The
impression is growing that there may be
another investigation of the police force.
Gov Roosevelt will leave Albany this
afternoon and will arrive in New York
at o'clock. He has two engagement
one this evening at the Century Club.
where there will be Twelfth Night en-
tertainment, and the other one Saturday
night, at the Colonial Club, where Capt.
A. T. Mahan will give a dinner TO Rear
Admiral Sampson.
While in New York the governor will
see Senator Platt. He has no appoint
ment with the Senator, but said yester-
day that he would endeavor 10 make one
There are many things to be ia ked over
and Gov. Roosevelt intends TO talk over
the most important steps in his admin s.
tration before he takes them. II Senator
Platt does not like the steps he Will al
least know that they are TO be taken. The
governor and Senator Piatt will talk
about the police question, and something
d INN q m re
may develop early in this session.
Albany having for years been the storm
centre of agitation among women for and
against female suffrage the governor ut
terances on this subject have caused
great commotion here. The women who
have conducted the fight in the legislature
against permitting women TO vote imme-
diately began taking steps toward mass
meeting in which the governor should be
denounced, while those who were in favor
of il began to get up delegation TO call
on the governor and commend him. All the
governor said in his message was this:
Il call the attention of the legislature TO
the desirability of gradually extending the
sphere in which the suffrage can be eXer-
cised by women
The governor was asked last night if he
meant by this to favor as free exercise of
the right of suffrage by women as by men.
lie replied lldi Ne udu NOleu leIIldit
suffrage while he was in the Legislature.
but he threw the suggestion out in his
message in order that, il possible, there
might be a very gradual broadening OF
the line in that respect in the way of an
experiment.
To better convey the governors idea, it
might be stated that he is in favor of just
a slight enlargement of the field, in order
that from experience the public could draw
a conclusion as to whether it is beneficial.
He said that the bestowal of suffrage on
women al school elections had certainly
been good for his school district al Oys er
Bay. 4 school house was much needed,
but the proposition was invariably voted
down so long as men only had the right to
vote When women were given the right
to vote on school matters the district had
new school house right away.
The governor yesterday had an oppor-
tunity to put into practice the rule which
he laid down a few days ago respecting
pardons for men convicted of crimes
against women or children. Judge Hatch
sent a letter recommending the pardon OF
three young men who had been convicted
of assault on a feeble-minded girl. The
governor first satisfied himself whether the
men were guilty and then peremptorily re-
fused to pardon them.