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4 bill introduced by Senator GAL
LINGER last March and now in the hands
Of the Judiciary Committee Of the Senate,
provides that after March 4 next ,he
salary of the President Of the United
States shall be increased from 'joo"0 to
$4,000, of the Nice-Pres,dcut aud of
Cabinet officers from $500 to $1,000,
of the Speaker Of the House from 5000
10 $1,000 and 81 Senators and Repre-
sentativcs from 5000 to 5000
We have no objection to offer to the
measure. moro especially as it bears no
likeness to the famous salary grab of
1873, when an existing Congress had the
bad taste to vote itself more pay and
back pay. This bill is not to take effect
during he life of the present Congress.
If the salary Of the President of the
United States is increased to 10000, as
more recent bill introduced in the
House of Representatives provides, 1t
will not be penny too much Relatively
10 the compensation of heads OF other i'm
portant nations, and even OF nations of
far inferior rank, it viii still be small
The later bin provides properly that
President after his retirement from
that exalted office, shall receive $4,000
year during his life.
The time was when demagogucs might
appeal successfully to a petty and mig
gardly spirit in the American people,
but that time long since passed away
More especially as concerns man
who is or who has been their President
the pride OF the Americans demandsthat
he shall lie assured an income which will
enable him to live as becomes their dig
nifty and the dignity of the now greatest j
office in the world. both while he is oc-
rupying the Office and as long as he may
live after having once occupied it.
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STCDrING CHILDREN,s corRT.
Member OF Berlin Circuit Court and Bishop
Potter on the Bench

Or A. Hartmann Of Berlin who is study
ing American administrative methods, sat
on the bench with Justice Deuel. in the
Children's Court Yesterday taking copious
notes. Or. Hartmann says only that he is
on the Circuit Court bench in Berlin and
that he will be in the United States at least
month studying courts and the admins
tration Of various charities, and will write
extensively on Ms return He is doctor
lUris utrusque. 1t Is said that his
report will be submitted to the Kaiser
DR. Hartmann appears 10 be young man.
He speaks English fluentiy. He expects
to devote considerable time to New York.
because Of It's extensive charitable or
CARNATIONS Then he will 20 West He is
familiar With American politics and much
interested in Gov. Folk of Missouri He
fled precipitatoly from reporters
OF the Children's Court he said he was
impressed by the CELEBRITY with which the
business was run through and with the
general air Of hopefulness that prevailed
among the officials.
Bishop Potter also spent some time on
the bench with Justice deuel.. saving. when
he left: I am profoundly impressed with
this institution, in which there is the highest
promise.
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One Of the recommendations made BY
President ROOSEVELT IN his message to
Congress was that wifs heaters should
be punished by whipping, rather than
by fine or Imprisonment Now Repre-
sentative ROBERT ADAMS, II, of Penn
sylvana, has introduced in the House
bill to carry out Mr.. RoosRNLr's sug-
gestion in the District Of Columbia.
Mr.. ADAMS would not ha~ more
than thirty lashes administered 70 wife
beaters, and in private. Mr. JOHN
WESLEY GAINES of Tennessee would
have the law wider in its application.
ANY man who would strike wounn
ought to be whipped, Mr.. GAINES cor-
tends, and he adds. q would like to
do the whipping myself, if necessary.
Wife beating, Mr. ADAMS believes. is
INDUCED in to an unsupported extent in
urban communities, and is less preva-
lent in country districts Some Penn
sylvania statistics presented by him
show that according to reports from the
District Attorneys, 527 complaints Of
wife beating were laid before the Grand
Juries of forty counties, and PSI true
bills were found In fourteen counties
no complaints were made, and thirteen
did not furnish reports On the PSI true
bills rcru-nad. FL convictions were OBJ
tanned and the sentences imposed aver
aged three months for each offender.
More than third of the convictions
were obtained in Philadelphia, and in
that city the sentences imposed averaged
five months each. Beaver county sent
one wife heater TO Jail for two years
Somerset's single prosecution ended with
a sentence of two years and six months,
and Erie and Yenango counties. each
with one conviction, gave the wife
heaters a year apiece in prison
As to the nationality Of the offenders,
the statistics are incomplete, but Ameri-
cans. Irish, Germans, Englishmen, ne
groes, HunEarians, Welshmen and
Scotch-lrishmen figure in the list. The
District Attorneys declare that native
Americans are less given 20 this pastime
than men of other nayionalties, and
they are Overwhelmingly OF the opinion
that the crime is not on the increase.
In many OF the instances the families
Of the condemned men became public
charges during the period OF the crlmi-
mails Imprisonment. The District A.
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fully from proyocation He has brought
about the most friendly relations be-
tween the French Republic and the Ttal-
ian monarchy, and has put an end TO the
age-long pickering with Great Britain
about the French shore of Newfound-
land. He has negotiated treaties of arbi-
tration with Great Britain and the United
States Above all. with surprising dex-
terity. he has shielded his country from
embodiment in the Far Eastern var.
while never for q moment losing the
good will and confidence of Russia, In a
word he has shown himself a statesman
such as the European continent has not
possessed since BIsMARCK's death
The French though they are emotional
have a keen eye for the main chance
They know good thing when they see
it. and therefore VI. DELCAssE can count
with close approach to certainty on
keeping be post of Minister of Foreign
Affairs as long.as he wants it, Premiers
nay come and Preiniers go, but he Will
run on indefinitely.
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WON'T LET DRESSER OFF.
Referee Reports Against His Discharge
In Bankruptcy.

Stanley W. Dexter referee in ban
ruptcy on the application for the discharge
from bankruptcy Of Daniel lie Roy Dresser
and Charles r. Reiss Dresser 4 Co b. COM
mission merchants in hosiery. silks and
webbing at IS and II Greene street. recon-
mends that discharge be denied 10 Mr.,
Dresser and granted to Mr.. Reiss Referee
Dexter bases his decision against Mr..
Dresser on the ground that he obtained
property on credit from the First National
Bank Of Boston. the Cambridge Trust Com
pany Faneuil Hall National Bank OF Bos-
ton the Ashuelot National Bank Of Keere
y. H.. and the Girard National Bank OF
Philadelphia upon materially false state
ment in writing made to such banks for
the purpose Of obtaining ouch properly
on credit. The statement referred 10
showed assets of the firm 81 AZ, $50 liabihtie,
t39S Saf and surplus $726. 075. The assets
consisted Of accounts s4s5 725. merchandise
t46o 600, stock in corporations S25 coo and
cash on hand 1852 30
This statement. the referee finds. was
delivered to Wheeler 4 Jones. note hrokera
Of Boston. and various banks purchased
drafts drawn by the American Tubing and
Webbing Company, and accepted by Dresser
r Co. relying on the truth Of thr state
ment, Another reason against the dis
charge is that Mr. Dresser refused, in the
course of the bankruptcy proceedings
to answer certain questions. Mr.. Dresser.
in his own behalf. considered the financial
statement above mentioned as only in
estimate. His discharge was opposed
mainly by banks and trust companies in
New England. There was no evidence
that Reiss ever saw or knew OF the state
ment" referred 10.
Morris j Hirsch attorney for Mr.. Dresser.
said last night that when the report came
up before Judge Holt Of the United States
District Court he viii oppose confirmation
Mr.. Hirsch commended. on behalf Of Mr.
Dresser, that the statement was not in
correct. because it included the value Of
his individual assets Subsequent events
however. impaired these values notably
the collapse of the Shipbuilding trust
and the impairment Of his holdings in the
Trust COmpAnV Of tho Renuhlic.
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The Police and the Citizen.

70 THK EDITOR or THE SuN Sir. Permit
me TO express nay cordial approval Of the
sentiments OF your editorial OF to-day on
Commissioner McAdoo
Having resided ia Brooklyn for twenty
three years. and observed tho conduct OF the
Police Department of New York since 1879
| venture to express an opinion based upon
knowlei go Of facts
In December 1900, I had tho honor Of scrv-
inR foreman of the Grand Jury in Kings
county. and the opinion Of that jury was ex-
pressed in the following pteseutment
Il Is eyidcu, from our investigation that citizens
who have knowledge Of crimes IN this county. or
who have themselves suffered from crlminai OF
fences do not appreciate the Necessity OF furnish.
Ing the prosecuting ofnclsls testimony which Will
secure conviction In the courts
Police officials must be sustained In All sincere
efforts TO protect tho law abiding citizen and Sc
cure Just punishment OF those who have dlsoboycd
the laws,
ANY citizen who really wants the laws on
forced may satisfy himself as TO the truth of
this matter by an occasional visit 20 any
police court where it is apparent that reliable
witnesses To sustain charges are frequently
understandable
When citizens recognize their own r4spou-
sibility. and give the Police Department the
support II must have TO make 1t effective.
reform win he established
ne policemen are too often impressed by
the apparent purpose OF reputable citizens
TO leave them TO fight all their batjes alone
without giving them oven q small degree OF
recognition and moral support
Witnesses against Raines law hotels should
make their sworn complaints in police courts,
and overcome their oowardy disposition 10
depend upon the Police Department for work
which they should do themselves
Until citizens are ready 10 take the lead and
call upon policemen to assist them tho CON
ditons which the Police Department is asked
to remedy are likely to continue without ma
toral change
have learned bv personal experience on
various occasions that policemen are human
and welcome sincere cooperation
FErpEEicK T. GoRDoS
WV YORK. Jan II
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WARsHTp Plus INDEMNITY.
sultan IL n Good Business Man, Says Judge
WalIace-C'ramps Win.

Circuit Judge Wallace. while charging
the jury yesterday. In the suit brought by
Adrian Tromp against the Cramp Ship
building Company, whose European rep
resentatlve Tromp used to be, for com
mission on protected cruiser sold to the
Turkish Government, declared the Sultan
to be a clear headed business man, the
real ruler.
Il wish could say all our affairs said
the Judge were conducted in a clear
headed business-like way by such a man
as the Sultan
After but very brief elaboration the
jury gave tho verdict to the defendant
corporation.
Mr.. Tromps claim was that he negotiated
the sale Of the cruiser built by the Cramps
to the Sultan and that the Cramps failed
to pay him commission
Oscar Straus. former Minister to Turkey
az a witness for the plaintiff. told OF his
efforts in 1893 and 1899 to make the Sultan
pay a certain indemnity for outrages upon
missionaries and of the subsequent con
tract made by the Porte for an American
vessel This vessel Mr. Tromp said. he and
he alone, as representative Of the Cramp.
ANIlIT1tifI lfIs ne tf-tllit'U llfi a.
the Kasagi since sold to Japan for 81 100000
Later he said he Sultan changed the order
and on Dec 25 1900. signed a contract for
n smaller cruiser. TO cost 81 800 600 but
he wanted his commission Just the same
Henry G.. Ward Of counsel for the Cramps
said that Tromp's negotiations fell through
and that therefore he was not entitled 10
any commission. The sultan. he said
had to make the contract anyhow, or else
there would have been war
This piece of business came 10 tho
Cramps through the United States Govern
ment said NJ Ward. "and through no
body else. The Sultan wanted 10 sette
the indemnity claims, so he gave the Amerl-
can shipbuilding firm a contract
Judge Wallace in reviewing tho case for
the jury said that the Sultan had recoR-
nized the American claims for indemnify
rs valid, but being unwilling TO Ter
his subject or foreign countries know
it, gave the Cramps an order. tho indemnity
TO be included In the price OF tho vessel
The total indemnity thus included was
Sli 5 600.
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WICKED AMERICANS ABROAD.
The Missionaries Indulge In n Little De-
nuuclauon OF Their Critics.

Resident communities Of Europeans and
Americans in Asiatic and South American
countries we're charged with the grossest
immortality at the twelfth annual con-
ference OF foreign missionary secretaries,
which began in the Bible House yesterday.
John w. Wood OF the Episcopal board OF
missions speaking for a committee APP
pointed last year, after similar denunoia-
ton had been made by member Of the
conference reported
These foreign residents men and women,
find little time for church; business and
pleasure taking most OF it. Anyway,
there IL little to attract They will not
attend the missionary services and usually
the overburdened missionary has no time
to devote TO them. Something must be
done for the thousands of young men who
are going out 10 these foreign communities
to interest them in unfolding mission
EFFORT and 20 put around them those strong
preventive, moral supports so absolutely
necessary
The Rev. +. A. Wicher, who lived in japan
Tor several years as a representative Of
the CANADIAN Presbyterian Church. said
Moral conditions in Oriental cities.
particularly in China and Japan, are al
most unspeakable. know OF one city,
wont say where in which 800 Europeans
and Americans lived Among them were
400 young men. Of whom and Investigated
carefully all but about twenty kept native
women as mistresses All the total ab-
stainers in that 400 could be counted on the
fingers Of both hands
All this has an iIreparabie effect on our
mission work. The natives argue that
if Christianity results thus. they will have
none OF 1t. These European residents
sitting in their clubs do far more harm
than can anything else to the missionary
cause. 1t Is TO these clubs the tourists
resort and from them come back home the
derogatory reports we hear of missionary
efforts. We are endeavoring 10 build up
Christian work. which they, countrymen
OF ours IN many cases are working just
hard TO tear down We must stop II i"
Many man struts about our streets
here at home with pompous sense of his
own high character who, If put out there.
would not stand the moral strain more than
two years, declared the Rev. pr w VI
Boil of Dayton Ohio. who spoke on the
same subject.
Other speakers mentioned Toxic Yo-
kahoina and Kobe in Japan and pekin
in China, a. containing especially wicked
men, committee is TO investigate the
subject still further and to report
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sad Amu.ement, of the Rrltnn

From ne liverpool Post and Mercury
4 certain invalid gentleman In the neiEhbor.
hood OF Liverpool has hit on a device whereby he
can amuse himself without asSis lance and can
also obtain a certain amount Of Intellectual e1er-
else He reads Henry Jamess latest novels
aud keeps bridge marker meantime II Mr.
James has sentence which he understands he
gives a mark TO himself H. on the contrary. be
meets a sentence which beats him, nc glycs6 mark
to Henry James. So FAR the game has been
going on a couple Of weeks. and Henry James is
far ahead OF his admrcr but. OF course the table,
may be turned when the contest is concluded
TIE process is tedious enough. since. In Justice.
every sentence has to be analysed. but the Invalid
declares that IS capital exercise and he is recon
nending It 10 his friends
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4 private letter from a competent and
responsible authority in Havana informs
Us that there is much enthusiasm here
over The plan to push through what is
called the interior loan The soldier
Beneficiary adds our correspondent,
will get about one-third of the vulue of
his bond and the usurcrs will get the
profits. because they viii keep down
the price Of the bonds until 1t is timc to
put it up
The national debt Of cuba, assumed
last year is $35,oo0,OOo in ) per cent bonds,
/ payable in forty years The proposal to
which our correspondent refers Increases
this obligation by the issue OF per cent
! bonds whose amortization shall not
begin until some indefinite time in the
far distant future These are to be
issued to the soldiers Of the Cuban rcvo-
luton in satisfaction of claims for Sill
10000, Of somewhat uncertain validity,
and of further claims, Of distinct uncon-
Stitutionality, for an added $lGoOO.O0o
Many Of these claims have already been
transferred to foreign spectators AZ
usurious discounts, and inevitably the
issue of the bonds would be followed
by the prompt transfer Of practically
the entire issue to the same hands at
bargain prices.
Under this plan Cuban taxpayers for
many years to come viii be bled Of sew
eral million dollars annually for which
neither the island nor its people will
rag.it-a IL eho,igt,. Of .,r,ni,-.lapt Drast
dent PALMA 5 past record led us to ex-
pect from him resistance to such a scheme
to the utmost OF his power. bat he seems
to be surprisingly supine toward it he
declared that he would ~cut on his right
hand before he would sign a national
lottery bill which was under discussion
by the Cuban Congress in 1903, and he
vetoed the bill when it came to him on
Jan c, 1904 He denounced II as a lower
ing and corruptlng device. and SAID
that the Government would be culpable
in taking the money of the people for
the furtherance Of such a scheme no
matter what the object ot the lottery
We cannot see how the Cuban Govern
ment would be any less culpable now in
taking the money OF the people and turn
ing il over to a crew of loan sharks
Until this matter takes on n more def
mite form. us is now threatened. it is
difficult to see any ground for Interior
ence from Washington. but it is more .
than possible that the Cuban authorities .
may yet be warned that both their own
Constitution and Article Of the Platt
Amendment stand in serious danger Of /
violation
Approval by the Cuban Congress of n
bill winch would saddle Cuba with a
debt of s2S 100000 in addition 10 the
present debt of s35 100000 would I'M
doubleday be followed by general and
vigorous deAmciation Cuba may pay
with safety the matter of some 80 goo.opo
still owing to her soldiers; but more than
that she shouldn't even consider Above
all, she should net allow herself to bc led
by the nose by foreign spectators.
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torneys agree that drunkenness led 70
many of the assaults
These statistics, Of course, take no
account of the large number of cases that
never went beyond the stage Of prelm-
mary inquiry in justices courts, in
which the defendants were discharged
with a reprimand, or held in bonds to
keep the peace. It is the experience of
the Pennsylvania prosecuting officers
that "the wives asked the Court to with
draw the prosecution in many cases,
because they were without means Of
support other than their husbands
earnings or because of compassion for
their assalants or unwillingncss to dis
grace their children.
Mr., ADAMs's researches have not
thrown any great amount of light on the
subject, but they are interesting, at least
He is firmly of the opinion that the whip
ping post would do much for the protec-
ton Of wives and he quotes the District
Attorney cf Baltimore as saying that
after the Mary land Legislature in 1883
passed a law providing whipping as
pu.ishmcn, for vito heaters the crime
ceased rs if by magic in that State.
ThecSpcrence of civilization has been
that harsh physical punishment, fog
ging, for example has not tended 10
diminish crime The reports Of the
Pennsylvania prosecuting officers as TO
the frequent desire of wives to withdraw
their complaints of beating by their hus-
bands are also suggestive. Very often
the beating is an incident of an alterca-
ton in which the woman may not be
without culpability, acknowledged by
trying to withdraw her complaint after
she has slept over the matter. When
too, a man who has worked hard all day
goes home at night to find that there is
no supper cooked for him and his wife
is drunk on the floor, the circumstances
are doubtless exasperating. Often too,
the woman gives As good as she gets.
Wife beating, moreover, is by no means
in America CRYING evil which re-
quires abatement by special legislation
In England that sort Of domestic dis
cipline is frequent. Our London con-
Truth. prints regularly cases (
in which it is carried TO great extremes.
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Tho Only william.

To rHs Enron or THE SrS-,sr. Your appre.
clHtive notice OF the genial qualities OF that artistic
dispenser Of ambFoslal liquids. the Only William d"
touches all who have had the fortune 10 come I'm
der the spell OF the wonderful connections OF the
late wizard Of mixed dnnas. How often have Ills
friends baskcd 10 the radiance of tho only VII.
lam"' What strange stories brilliantly woven
told under the influence OF the "dlspcnsatons
OF that artist With what courtesy ana grace were
those disprusations served
Gone is the Only william peace 10 his genial
soul--but his artistic skl and his never falling
Courtesy in presenting ,an products thereof viii
ever remain delightful memory with host OF
friends VILE
NFW YORK. Jan TO-
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GERRY SOCIETY RECORD.
S.352 Prosecutions and S.s0I Convictions
Last Year. says John ID. Lindsay

At the thirtieth annual meeting Of the
New York Society for the Prevention II
Cruelty TO Children, commonly know.
az the Gerry society, held in its building
2a7 Fourth avenue on Tuesday night, Presi
dent John D. Lindsay reported that tho
society was free from debt except for thu
mortgage on its building and this had been
reduced from 100000 to $4,000. Nh
Lindsay presented a record for thirty year
q l77,63l complaints including tho .study
OF i42.l7i children, and 73,s4I prosecutions
out of which there were as, 500 convictions
In the last year he said l0. SOB complaints
we're investigated, 1872 cases prosecuted
5,spl convicted and $3.50 children reecIed
Commodore Gerry. now vice-prcsident
OF the society, was present.