New-York tribune., 1905-06-27
CLASS DAY AT YALE.
SCENES OF GAYETT.
Secretary Taft addresses the La"
School Graduates.

New-Haven Conn, June 70 tSpeciaA''
came Tp with tropical heat this morning, D"'
noon the streets about the college were iiiie0
members of the classes TO hold reunions, ana
-, .-,,,s to,,ses that have been taken as head
quarters were packed to the doors with manu-
shaking alumni That this years faie coiii
rnencement is to be one Of the most brilliant anu
largely attended In recent years is afeau'
shown by the great number Of out-of-to"h iaie
men and their families who have reslstereu d.
the local hotels.
-r,,is ,norn;ne the Sheffield Scientific School
class day was held on the court INSIDE the me-"
z-.n,sarh,ft dorrrftory. the gift TO Shelf" OF
Frederick W. Vanderbilt, rs s. of NeW-foFh
CITY. Morgan G.. Bowman. captain OF the faie
baseball team was chairman of proceedings
This afternoon followed the academic class DAY
on the Yale campus.
This noon the Yale Law School met Tor lps
annual dinner In Hendrie Hall, In Eirn-st.' the
main event of the anniversary exercises which
followed being the address made TO the srdo-
uating class by Secretary William H. iaft.
Secretary and Mrs Taft were tonight the
guests at dinner given In their honor ana III
that of Sir Edward and Lady Elgar by Juose
and Mrs. Townsend in Grove-st
In his address Secretary Taft said in part;
one of the most useful results of our recent
with uniting our new possessions with this coun-
and s 5onad In foree 9 9f Porto and
Philippines to the new American soyeregnty mas mas
two great systems OF law. the Roman or CIVIL
law snd 6f 5s m Who hTs Gs Been in the
principles Of the common law and have not ex-
are apt to be narrow In our prejudices IN favor Of
the g a w to sne learn ae the 1e o law whos
be usefully adopted by government IN y %nic1 1
The power Of the government toward the subject
or the citizen is restrained by such careful reguls
popular self-governments for which either OF those
We have no right to force on the Porto Ricans or
the Fflipinos Institutions Of our own which have
proved Of the highest benefit to u.s. unless we can can
sse other than mere ssntmenta gr6unds con-
VIII now prove beneficial to them in their present
has not been adopted in the Philippines do not
think it too much to say, however that 1t has has
st question IN the Phi@lipgines @ a Shall it be
tSpP has m adopted Il for this purpose Shall We
so? It would seem unwise 1t is by no means cans
ease eea tA. is an m unsed good The abolition Of the
fury in civil cases would relieve civil suits, ana
n MGaa no OF an t mprai heaRne pof it viii
sDs BE ne1es e0es in m y the sat.s this
may be, in view of present conditions we are not
called upon introduce the jury In civil cases into
the Philippines.
TRIAL BY JURY IN PHILIPPINES.
In the matter of the criminal procedure, the ques
ton is very different In a couEtry where part
Of the Judges are aliens It would add much TO the
satisfaction Of the people IL part of the judcia!
this were consistent with the safety of the
munity those responsible for the government
would certainly introduce the jury system in the
trial of crimes The whole theogy OF the trial by
Jury is that out of the body of the community you
may select at haphazard twelve men SO deeply I'M
P5ed oe Bab M6 fhe and ef o9 g
to escape on the other. that they will decide truly
fendsat FEM % Mahfestiy such tribunal would have
no place among ignorant people. or, indeed even
aruoD a people who somewhat educated, II
they have not inculcated In them sense of re-
It is this Sense of Justice which is implanted natur
ally in the Anglo-SaXon breast, but which is absent
dsqualiies either from filing the measure of stiff
and conserVativeness of character required to
make proper iuryman.
system into the Philippine IslaFr1s and, indeed.
into any civil law country, is the absence of
code OF evidence, without which the jury system
is not likely greatly to promote just findings on
issues presented. 1t has been necessary for use in
the Philippine Islands to introduce a code of evi-
dence for the trial of crimes even without Jury
which is also applicable to the trial of civil cases
BY order of President Mckinley all the constit1-
tional projections the defendant in a criminal
case were extended to defendants in criminal cases
in the Philippines except right Of trial by jury
am not certain that in country this was
In adopting system for the punishment of crime
for q new country the first question which caa be
asked is, How have the so-called guarantees of
liberty Of the defendant worked on the whole?
severity and uniformity the public veal de-
lnands, and this although they have the trial by
TO testify, and although all the other rules of evil
oence TO which have referred have full applica-
cov T nov " s I'm, IN thls ms eGg2ITyy grieye ley for my
tnal law in all the States of the Union (there may
De one or 'W2 No exceptions is disgrace to our
cannot plead youth. sparse civilization or new
ness Of country cause for laxity In the en-