The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-08
S,P.C c. A. REFORMERS CONFER.
lyTI.HAINES MASS MEETING
PLANS MADE.

n President Presents Resignation at To.
davis special Meeting II May he
bic Mr.. Turnure shows Need OF
thorough Inv estIgatlOn Of Finances.
The outsiders who are trying to reform
,he p. c. A., under the name of the s. p.
r A Reform Association, held q meeting
last night in the banquet room of the Wal
dorf. Astoria and, after listening to arraign-
ments Of John 2. Haines as president Of the
8 p. c. A., voted to hold a mass meeting
N influence public opinion and bring about
ral protection for dumb animals. 1t was
decided to ask Cardinal Gibbons, Joseph
Y Choate, Mark Twain, Rabbi Schulman
and others to make addresses. A COM
mittee was appointed, with Arthur Turnure
"a chairman, to make the arrangements.
About 100 persons were present at last
nights meeting. Mr.. Turnure nominated
Jared F. Harrison to be chairman. He
ssd the audience was assembled in the
cause Of the protection Of animals. He
declared that the dumb creatures were not
protected as they should be and he asserted:
The head and front of the offending is
John P. Haines. He must cease to be
president of the S. p. c. A."
Then Mr.. Turnure let go this broadside:
There is some difference of opinion whether
after he ceases to be president he should
BE- phi rsued by legal inquiry or whether he
should be allowed TO resign and slip out OF
sight. With full power to keep proper books
OF accounts, he has not kept them. He has
steadily resisted investigation He has been
credited with n salary of sd. 900 a year for seven
wears back and has lived well without taking
this salary.
Moneys that the society receives are paid
directly to him. He does not want to be In
yesttGated, though the American Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has
had about 81 900. 600 in ten years. This Is
the pecuniary side of the scanda The other
side is the ineniciency of the administration
the i~asoIenCe of its employees. the cruel neg
lect Of suffering animals and the indubltable
e1travagance and wastefulness apparent
everywhere in the operation Of the society.
Mr.. Turnure then said 1t was small
wonder that he has not resigned and
that Haines knew that there was only one
force that could put him out of office and
that was "the irresistible force OF public
opinion" He declared that Haines was
living in a fortress built up by himself
slowly through legislation, that the mana
gers Of his society had been simply dummies
and that the bylaws of the society which
he had put through were such as to make
outlaws Of the members Of the society.
He then told of the exclusive privileges OF
the society and of its secret methods, "domi-
mated by a perpetual president, who &C.
counts to no one" He added:
John p. Haine is merely q deplorable,
depressing incident that Don must cease
to be
Then Mr.. Turnure told IF the organization
OF the reform association to work from
the outside and advocated the mass meeting
Idea. He said:
Since the days of Henry Bergh there
never has been a time when so much could
I've done for animals and never a time
when the future of their wretched defence
lessness has been SO much in peril
When MIR. Turnure finished Col. Mesrop
Newton, former secretary OF the Persian
legation in Washington, arose and eX-
pressed his amazement that Haines's
methods could exist in a free govern
ment such as that OF the United states.
He said:
All Anglo-Saxon countries are a paradise
todumb animals compared to Mohammedan
Countries"
Col Newton told OF riding one day with
the Shah when they observed a case Of
cruelty that even moved the Shah. He
ordered a man to oease beating a donkey
and made Col. Newton pinch the mar with
bic sword. The man on his knees begged
cemency from the Shah. The latter re-
piled,
1t is lucky for you that you don't live in
Europe where they have societies to protect
animals, for you would be put in jail"
Col. Newton then said:
The S. P. C. A.. should put men who are
cruel in Jail. 1t doesn't seem to do so.
Rse and organize and force that man
Hsines out OF his fortress"
Mr., Turnure then read a letter from c. A..
HamIin, the horseman, saying that Haines
was unqualified in mind and heart for his
job. Then he read one from eX-Polioe
Commissioner McAdoo, regretting that he
could rot be present, and he added:
never permitted a veteran policeman
to be separated from his horse
This was greeted with applause and
josephine Redding got up and said:
u should like to say also that Mr.. McAdoo
never allowed a man who weighed more
than $50 pounds to ride in his traffic squad,
and by supplying those beautiful police
horses to the squad he gave us a splendid
exhibition of humane treatment Of ami
mails.
A. 0. Overpan thon said hat he loved
horses as nothing else and he was con-
sanity examining thousands OF them in
this city. He told how he had gone re-
Peatedly TO sec Haincs and could not reach
him.
Finally | did get to see him. he said,
and | never want to see him again. Now
80 at the drivers myself and by making a
DUN that | speak With authority ] relieve
,H"l iilInD dllH1uiS lou -tOu hllOW
now happy | am to see this big meeting. |
HAD begun to think | was the only S. +. CA.
IN New York city"
When it was decided to hold a mass
meeting Mrs. Redding got up and asked
UT was TO be on the lines of political meet
iIngS or If We shall get somewhere" Mr..
%irrnure said that whether Haines re-
Ngne1 today or not the purpose was to
so affect public opinion that real work
Would be done for dumb animals and that
II might lead to a legislative inquiry. The
!eesolution was adopted unanimously and
men the meeting adjourned into an informal
@nietence TO talk things over
Both the special and regular meetings OF
the board Of managers of the S. P. G. A.
Will he held this afternoon. 1t was said
Yesterday that if Haines does resign
an attempt will be made to lay his resigna-
Go1 on the table and not permit him to 60
II the string attached to his resignation
I that there shall be no investigation Of
ns Management Of the society it was said
vat the terms will not be accepted and
nat the investigation will go on and q
G1enand will be made for his removal when
v ls finished. Both the Haines faction
and the anti-Haines faction weu inclined
yesterday not to accept the resignation
u once.