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New-York tribune., 1902-05-28

Ing the questions at issue, and il had to proceed
unaided by any suspension Of civil law as II bore
on the relations in any particular of the annexed
territories 10 the United States and its citizens
This difficult task has been met with great
skill. The War Department. guided by Judge
Magoon. has, as occasion required, taken po-
stiOn after position which has been justified by
time, though at first bitterly assailed as Wcon-
stitutiOnal and un-American. on Judge Ma
gOOn's advice the War Department adhered to
the doctrine that the constitution did not extend
Of its own force to newly annexed territory. and
it in accordance with that view that Con
gress acted when it first began to legislate for
the acquisitions The Foraker law for Porto
Rico embodied that doctrine. and in sustaining
il the Supreme Court gave its approval TO the
essential features of the colonial government
which it had been the aim of the War Depart
ment 10 make pOssbe-that is, a government
suited TO the needs of the different islands and
not shaped by constitution made TO meet
totally different conditions On some minor
questions. such as the right of the military au
thorities TO exercise legislative power and i'm
pose duties in annexed territory not the scene
of hostilities the acts of the administration
were overruled. but its policy as a whole has
been upheld by courts and people.
Judge MagoOn has made n minute study of
our history, and the value of his reports is not
confined to the particular topics which it has
been necessary to decide. They will hereafter
be consulted for light on the thousand and one
questions which certain to arise with refer
ence to colonial administration. Only the pri-
mary rule has been established that Congress
in legslating for the new territories is uncOn-
trolled by some general provisions of the con
stituton. like that enjOnng uniform duties
throughout the United States. How far il is I'M
controlled with respect to some other provisions
is yet undetermined, and the lawyers who in
future undertake to defend the plenary power
of the government will find great deal TO as
sist them in Judge MagoOns work.
New-York tribune., 1902-05-28
THE T4TNT OF T4Mlf4NY.

Tammany partiSans will be disposed TO assert
that ii is only an ancient war breaking out
afreSh which menaceS President Haffen in his
own bailiwick across the Harlem River, and
probably his old antagonists have seized upon
Il moment OF peculiar weakness in their enemy
10 move forward toward his undoing. But to
the outside observer there is something which
seems TO be far more important than a renewal
of old opposition in the sudden outbreak in The
Bronx following President Haffen's elevation to
the Tammany triumvirate The incident seems
TO contain a renewed assurance that the disgust
and indignation under which Tammany sue
cumbed last fall still exist, and that the badge
of Tammany's inner circle is in truth but
badge of shame.
1t is true enough that President Haffen has
all along been Tammany man. in the formal
sense: but his stock in trade has been indepen-
dence of the downtown bosses There was
keen disappointment among the fusion leaders
last fall that they failed to elect the fusion can
didate for Bronx Borough President, but 1t
was clearly understood that Haffen's victory,
by a reduced majority. due 10 the fact that
il had been impossible owing to Haffen's sup
posed independence. 10 present the anti-Tam-
many issue as clearly in The Bronx as else
where. The charge in the statement issued by
the opponents of Haffen that he lis fond of
posing in the dual character of an independent
Democrat. opposed to all machines except his
own" and a champion of bosses. finds its
basis in current history, with the modification
that his championship of bosses was never
done publicly.
1t was not surprising therefore, that Haffen's
selection as one of the three guiding stars of
the entire Tammany organization came a
considerable shock TO his anti-Tammany ad-
mirers in The Bronx. In the recent election he
managed TO escape from the Tammany taint,
but Tammany triumvir he could not longer
avoid it. The Democratic primary fight in The
Bronx seems likely to be one of the most inter
esting in the really interesting series promised
for next September
New-York tribune., 1902-05-28
TOO SLOW.

What superhuman genius guided the engineer
who selected the sites for stations on the Third
ave. elevated system above the Harlem River?
Within the borders OF Manhattan Island there
are stations at intervals ranging from five to Il
dozen blocks. Study the distances between the
stopping places on the upstairs railways be-
tween the Battery and the northern end OF
Manhattan Borough. Then consider the pecul-
lar and puZZling state of things in the Borough
of The Bronx. 1t is almost reasonable to say
that the Thrd-ave. elevated ears after they
have crossed the stream which separates the
two boroughs move at the pace of mud turtle
stricken with paralysis OF nearly every one of
the motor nerves and pass few woodsheds with
out a long pause for meditation.
III some of our Southern States before the Civil
such moderation in the hauling of trains that
when a passengers hat was blown out of
window the cars were halted in order that the
bareheaded ticket holder might not catch cold
and the headplece was captured and brought
back even if the winds had carried il far away
Delays meant nothing In that easy and unhur-
ried epoch. When there was a circus or n
funeral within few miles of the Southern
trunk route the locomotive engine had n respite
from toll, and everybody on board the ears paid
tribute to the sorrows of the afflicted or laughed
at the antics OF the clowns.
The trains on Southern railroads do not creep
and crawl at present. They challenge compari-
son for promptness and pace with the thunder
bolts of the Northern expresses. But on the
Third-ave. stills beyond the Harlem the apo
plectic and congested cars still lnger and loiter
and still stop at almost every other back yard
What sense is there in such a service a relic
of primitive methods? Quick work and hard
work are needed in The Bronx. Laggards should
be thrust out. There is evidently too much dead
wood in those elevated trains in these progress
sive and enterprising days.
New-York tribune., 1902-05-28
GROTNDLFSS ALARM.

In an interview published in Baltimore Pro-
fessor Thomas Garignuc Masaryk. of the Uni
versty of Prague. and member of the Aus
tran Reichsrath, tells OF his fears for the safety
of the United States because Of the influx OF
uneducatcd immigrants. Speaking Of the chill
dren in the crowded district Of New York. he
asked: "WhO takes care Of them" Then, to
show how carefully he has studied the prob
lem. he gives this piece Of advice: There IS
only one remedy that can think of. and that
"is to organize n movement to take care of these
children, educate them, and 10y so doing cie-
''vate their moral condition"
The learned Bohemian will probably be sur
prised To hear that his idea Is not original. and
that people who are not connected with the
University of Prague nor with the Austrian
Reichsrath have had vague notions as 10 the
advisability of elevating the people OF the
crowded East Side by means Of education. II
he had seen the public schools the libraries and
the free lecture halls; If he had studied our
system of public education, and had visited the
homes Of the people from his own country In
the densey populated part of the city, he would
have discovered that the American had antici-
pated the Bohemian.
If Professor Masaryk wishes to do the United
States a service let him advocate education In
his country. particularly among the peasants
who contemplate coming to these shores. The
ignorant adults are the undesirable immigrants,
the children source of less trouble. The
children thanks to the movement to take care
of them" of which the Bohemian professor
seems 10 he ignorant, become English speaking,
wage earning citizens while the parents are
slow to assimilate and to shake off the igno-
rance which stands in their way for usefulness.
The learned professor will find if he investi-
gates the matter, that there are proportonately
fewer illiterate children among the BOhemians
In New York than there are among the working
classes in Prague, and that his anxiety because
of New-IOrk's ignorant children, while it may
be proof Of his kindly disposition is uncalled for
New-York tribune., 1902-05-28
JUDGE MAGOONrS REPORTS.

! The reports of Judge Charles T. MagOon, law
officer of the Division Of Insuar Affairs of the
] War Department. on questions submitted by the
( Secretary concerning the law of civil govern
! ment under military occupation have been com
piled into a volume just issued by the Gov
ernment Printing Office They are valuable
mine of Information the history of this coun-
: try as il throws light on our colonial problems.
] In no other period of its history has the War
{ Department been called upon TO deal with such
difficult and intricate questions outside the
military sphere as in the last four years. As
the administrator of Cuba ana the Philippines,
and part of the time of Porto Rico. il has been
confronted by a great variety of legal questions
, involving the status of those territories with
respect to our constitution and laws. and also
the definition of private rights and obligations
determined under Spanish law. Many of the
administrative problems which the War De
partment had TO meet raised new or long for
gotten issues concerning the very character of
the United States the nature and extent of its
sovereignty. the division of its powers and the
basis and extent of its authority at home and
abroad The annexation of Louisiana which
meant a transformation of our original fedora
tiOnrof limited powers into a nation of general
sovereign authority and the Civil War, which
established that nations right of self-perpetua-
ton regardless of the consent of any section of
the governed alone confronted our government
with novel and important questions OF equal
magnitude. In answering them, however. the
responsibility divided among the depart
ments trained TO deal with particular classes of
subjects, and often the executive was able to
proceed by the light of legislative enactment
In meeting the insular problems the prime re-
spOnsibility was on the War Department, and
il has generally had TO map out its course in
advance of Congressional action or OF Judicial
decision. 1t was moreover. hampered by the
obligation of learning and regarding precedents
in dealing with the practical necessities of un-
precedented situations, and of meeting new re-
sponsibilities without departing I'm essentials
from old paths. In the of Louisiana the
administration mace precedents. The govern
ment was new. its constitution mobile and both
were shaped 10 meet circumstances. In 1861
arms set laws aside 10 a considerable degree
even in the peaceful parts of the country, and
fl was not till long after the government had
cut Gordian knots In the North by military
power that in some cases the exercise of such
power was overruled by the courts. The insular
administration had no such free hand. 1t had
to proceed with strict regard 10 a long line OF
andicial decisions touching but not really meet
New-York tribune., 1902-05-28

| document he made il clear that the authority
! of the United States was Ito be eXerted for the
| security of the persons and property of the
| people of the islands and for the contrma-
| tion of all their private relations; that Amer
| leans entered the islands mot as invaders or
"cOnquerors, but as friends. TO protect the ma
"tves in their homes in their employments and
lin their personal and religious rights that the
government of the islands would be admins
tered ''by officers chosen as far as may he prac-
ticable from the inhabitants of the islands"
that there should be and was assured TO the
Filipinos that full measure of individual rights
land liberties which is the heritage of free
peoples" and that the United States. in estab-
fishing its sovereignty over the islands, meant
to Substitute the mild sway of justice and
right for arbitrary rule
In that proclamation. one would think. this
government told the Filipinos with sufficient
directness and explicitness what were its in
tentiOns concerning them. But in the face or
such information Aguinado. two days later
issued a defiant counter proclamation. and on
February L. 1899 two days before the ratifica-
tion of the treaty of peace, began his wanton
insurrectiOn. Meantime the President appointed
n Philippine commission to proceed to the ISL
andS to give further assurances of the purposes
of this country, specifically instructing it, on
JHnutTN ~, among OlleT IIlllSS, ~ cA'I'iH'
due respect for all the ideals. customs and in
'sttutions' of the FipnOs, and TO 'emphasHe
upon all occasions the Just and beneficent in
"tcntions of the United States" And this com
mission, on reaching the islands, on April 4, is
sued Il proclamation declaring that the amplest
liberty of elf-govcrnment would he granted
which was recOncable with just, effective and
economical administration and compatible with
the sovereign rights of the United States; that
the civil rights of the FilipinOS would be guar
anteed and protected, their religious freedom
would be assured, and all would have equal
standing before the law; and that the islands
were not to be selfshly exploited, but admin
iStered for the welfare of the Filipinos. Yet
in the face of this AGuinaldo and his fellow in
SurGentS kept up their murderous campaign,
and to this day their sympathiZerS in the United
States try to excuse them on the ground that
they had not been Informed of the liberal and
bcnefcent policy of the United States,
This latter pretcnce is absolutely unfOunded.
The United States Government DID tell the
Filipinos what its plans concerning them were.
1t did so at the earliest possible date, in the
plainest possible words. and in the most
thOritatve manner The insurgents revolted
not in the dark. but in the fullest possible light
of authentic information. And for such n re-
volt only one treatment was possible to wit in
exorable suppression.
New-York tribune., 1902-05-28
PERSONAL NOTES.

Virginia people are hoping that John SEelton
Williams president Of the Seaboard Air Line
Railroad will be chosen president ol the James
town Exposition Company He IS native OF I1II T.
saws that he has been the apostle OF lniuStiii-
revival in the South, and with broad cohpie-
hensive view Of the conditions oicet by an N
domitable energy that almost b3tttes human con
ceptiou he has accomplished within the last teW
years than any one man living within tAe
Mason and Dixon line
Negotiations are under wa by which Mrs Pot
ter Palmer. Of Chicago may soon bccoTr the
owner OF White Hall. once the residence of Cow
ernor Sharpe. Colonial Governor NJ Nar\ ana
from Annapolis. II 81 the best specimens
of Colonial architecture in the country. ard con,
tains fine samples Of ancient furniture anu
paintings.
from the Missouri State University at the coming
commencement
Justice Morrison. of Newfoundland. the leader Il
the strong movement for annexation of the island
TO Canada. is in Toronto on a visit He is quoted
stating that, whereas in 1862 Newfoundland
was strongly against confederation. she Is being
driven by the logic of events toward union with
Canada. In 1863 the colony had no debt. ana Lhe
taxation upon imports about 10 per cent lV-
day. chiefly through the building Of railways, the
debt has risen TO about S20Oo0oso the interest on
which is alone equal 10 the total expenditure oI
the colony in 1863 To meet this import duties have
been increased. until they average about 8
per cent or $40 per head of the Uouu ,ou of -otOe
Thus the colony. which STAYED Out OF tonIe'.'Fa
tiOn because II wanted low duties huds j~e lltCIu
to charge higher duties than Canada does.
General Lew Wallace. James Whi,comb Riley,
Mary Hartweu Catherwood Booth Harrington.
Charles Major. George Rarr McCutcheon. George
AIDE and Meredith Nicholson will read seiecuen5
Saturday evenings of this week Tor the pv.vIl OF
the Harrison Monument fund
New-York tribune., 1902-05-28
amuscmrnfs.

ACADEMY OF MUsIC-2-s-Quo vadis.
AMERICAN THEATRE-2-S:l5-City Of New York
BIJOU-2-s-A Modern Magdalen.
BROADWAY THEATRE -2-s-The Sleeping Beauty and
4
CRITERION THEATRTG-S-Du Barry.
DAJY'E THEATRE-2-S.15-King Dodo.
EDEN MUSEE-pav and EyennP-World in Wax
EMPIRE THEATRE -2:I5-s:3O-The Importance OF
Being Earnest
HERALD SQUARE THEATRES -l5-Doly Warden
KETTH'S-12:3O 1030-Coutiuuous Performance.
KNICKERBOCKE Err THEATRE s:l5-The Wild Rose.
MANHATTAN THEATRE-S-2 -S-2D-Divcrcons and Little
Italy.
MURRAY Hill. THEATRE 2-s-Dr. RiU
NEW SAVOY THEATRE Soldiers Of Fortune.
NEW-YORR THEATRE-2-S-Hal II Fame
OLYMPIA FIELD d-enox-ave. l35th ana l36th sts)-
/ 2-S-Bufalo Bili+s wild West
PARADISE ROOF GARDENE-S-Naudeyile.
PASTORS RS-Contin1ous Performance.
WAL1ACK'S T1IEATRE-s The Show Girl
New-York tribune., 1902-05-28
GAVE LOUBET FOR REFERENCE
MAN DISTRIBUTING ANARCHIST PAPER
ALSO SAID AMBASSADOR CAMBoN
WOULD VOUCH FOR HIM.

Paterson. n. J., May ~ (SpeciaD-August
Bleoulet. Frenchman. was arraigned in
the police court to-day. charged with dis
tributing copies OF La QUESTION: Sociale"
the Italian anarchist paper. on the side
walk outside the hall of the striking Overs
helpers When asked if he knew anybody
IN tne city VINO could vouch for his peace
able hapits ne gave twosnames that none in the
courtroom knew. He then wrote them doup
and ii turned out that they were the names of
jules Camhon. the French Ambassador at Wash
lnston. and President Loubet of France This
created some stir in the courtroom The man
could talk little English The recorder Iat
him go. ''"N' Ael
New-York tribune., 1902-05-28
cur FOR SUPERINTENDENT WELSH

+"snia rams n Y, May 27.-The New-York
State Reservation Commissioners TODAY presentaa
10 lhomas v Welsh former Member OF the Assem-
DV ana superintendent of the reservation a lovins,
cup cup Ine cup was from all the commissioners
20 T Gnu present ten in number. including Andrew
Il Green. J: Hampden Robh John N Rowars "
Heinss nf fPhaLies M Dow. OF jamestown: George
-''ohester Thomas p. Kingsford OF
New-York tribune., 1902-05-28

There is hope OF relief from the stigma which
is now attached to this country by reason Of its
barbarous tariff treatment of foreign master
pieces of art. Representative Lowering. Of Mas
sachusetts. has introduced a bill amending the
Dngley law by placing paintings in oil water
color. statuary. sculpture drawings. engravings
and etchings on the free list. the bill providing
that such works of art shall have been manu-
factured or produced more than fifty years be-
New-York tribune., 1902-05-28
DIR. VAN DYKE GOING WEST.

Henry van Dyke spent to-day at his home In
Princeton, and left here for New-York again to-
night. Tomorrow night he will leave there on
trip to Missouri ON Friday he will attend "A dinner
In his honor at St Louis and on Sunday he will
PfeSGh the baccalaureate sermon at the University
menCement address before the GRADUATING class AZ
the COLLEGE at Durham. n -
New-York tribune., 1902-05-28

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See opposite page tOr subscription rates.
New-York tribune., 1902-05-28
CARLETON COLLEGES PRESIDENT

Northheld. Minn.. May 27.-The Rev. William II
salmon, OF bridgeport. Conn. who recently de
clined the presidency of Tabor College in Iowa
mas accepted the presidency of Carleton College.
J. 1893. ~
New-York tribune., 1902-05-28

some of those on the steamer KrOnprinz Wilhelm
which arrived here from Bremen yesterday. were
Il. Barnes Mrs. Grant Dickson, c. s Francis
United States Minister to Greece and Mrs Fran
cis the Marquis Pallavicini Hppolyt Leopold
Stern. Winfield Scott HOyt. W. X. Vanderbilt Miss
Edith Abraham. Mr.. and Mrs. Edward E Aver
Mr. and Mrs. ID. b. c. CatterwOOd. c. F. Crocker
Mrs. c. II. T. Coils. +. p. Dunno, Mrs Elisha
Dyer Mrs. Daniel Delehanty. Miss Delehantv
Mr. and Mrs. William T. Galley. the Misses Galley
Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Hoffman. Mr.. and Mrs r O.
Herrick, Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore F. Jackson Nr
and Mrs. David p. KimbaH. Mrs David King Mr.
and Mrs. w Martin Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Maxwell
Mr. and Mrs. Wallis Craig Smith. Miss Swan and
Miss A. p. Townsend.
Among those who will sail to-day for South
amptOn the steamer Philadelphia Mr. and
Mrs. j. T. Adams. William NJ Chase, Alfred Cur
phey, Mr.. and Mrs. o. p. DOrman, Mr. and Mrs
James c. Duff. Mr.. and Mrs. William l. EIkns
Miss Jeanette L. Glider, Miss Daisy Green. Mr.
and Mrs. Richard King. Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Marshall. Miss Alice Ogden James Z. Scott
George +. SOuthaTd Mr.. and Mrs J. r. H Spencer
Miss A. NJ Spencer. General Joseph Wheeler the
Misses Wheeler and p A b. WideHer.
Booked to sail on the steamer Menominee to-day
for London c. G. Abbott the Rev. and Mrs
Edward Fairbank and family. Mrs Margaret
Mathews. Miss Elsie Mathews and Pierre Troubet-
Zky.
New-York tribune., 1902-05-28
NETWORK SOCIETY.

The city is engaged to-day in welcoming her DIS
tingushed visitors from France ana aslue Ironi
the official functions organized in their honor:
many private entertainments are oelns arIdnSeu
for them The hospitality of most of the leading
clubs has been extended to them
New-York tribune., 1902-05-28

: fore the date Of inportation Enlightened pub
lie opinion throughout the country mas lohs
favored the abrogation of the present restric-
tions and representative artists recently put
themselves on record as urging the feioiIi'
They realize of course. that art in this country
suffers from the absence of great works by Eu-
ropean masters far more than it possibly could
from any real fancied competition from thaI
source Apparently Congress is about to adopt
their point of view and cease to put paintings
on a footing with pork.
The last word in the Spate chair case mas
now probably been spoken But the memory
of that preposterous but quite characteristic
episode will Iinger long in the legends of Man
haitian parks.
When the head of the Department of Build
ings stopped work on a towering hotel in Fifth
ave of huge cost and immense height, because
the regulations as to freproof construction had
been disregarded in certain details. he showed
determination to protect the public interest
which is worthy of praise
The Automobile Club of America has acted
wisely in Furnishing the members of the organ
ization who have transgressed the legal limit OF
speed. This association is determined that 1t
will take strong measures to check the tendency
on the part of some reckless handlers or the
self-motors who lose their heads and excite pop
ular wrath against their disregard of salutary
restraint. Let us all dOff our goggles in honor
of the Automobile Club of America, which IN
tends TO keep the wild and whirling driver
within the straight and narrow path of public
order and public safety
Mulberry Street Headquarters should break up
the soft snaps of favored policemen, of which
there are so many between Jamaica and Yonkers'
and should put more men on dangerous cross
ings which are now so numerous in the boroughs
of Manhattan and Brooklyn.
From more than one venerable university and
college come reports of wild pranks Of frolic-
some students, who have been defying the facul-
ties and acting like street Arabs in the destruc-
ton or DETACHMENT of the old landmarks. The hot
headed young fellows have been indulging in
foHies which remind the calm and sef-cOntained
alumni of the cracking of thOrns under a pot
Boys will be boys. But the laws must be
obeyed and the offenders must be disciplined
and kept in order
With proper enforcement of the salutary new
law against splitting upon sidewalks, a long
step will be taken toward making this city
New-York tribune., 1902-05-28
About People and Social Incidents.
TRANSATLANTIC TRAvELLERs

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