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New-York tribune., 1909-06-03
JUDGE AND COMMISSIONER.

Justice Gaynor's demand for the removal of
Police Commissioner Bingham, based upon one
specific instance of what he believes TO be
police persecution. is quite extraordinary
Granted for the sake of the argument, that the
Judges version of the facts is perfectly cor
rect, there is occasion for discipline within the
department: but it is impossible to see how it
constitutes any ground for the Commissioners
removal. a reading of the correspondence leads
to the conclusion that his conduct and attitude
have been entirely correct. Apparently he never
heard of this young milk wagon driver named
Duffy until Justice Gaynor wrote him 10 say
that Duffys picture was not properly In the
Rogues' Gallery and that its presence there had
resulted in his uniustifable arrest. The Com
missioner having at once investigated the case
determined that the department could legally
retain the photograph and that Duffy was the
kind of person whose photograph it was desir-
able for the police to have. He seems to have
taken the reasonable position that the picture of
a person of innocent associations and reputable
character should not be in the Rogues' Gallery,
even though the police might have legal right
to retain 1t; but his information regarding
Duffy's character and associations differed from
that of Justice Gaynor. to whom, nevertheless,
he showed a disposition to defer after the judge
should have considered the facts in the posses
sion of the Police Department
In all this can see nothing 10 substantiate
this remarkable accusation by Justice Gaynor:
He is possessed of the most dangerous and de-
structive deusion that officials entertain in
q free government, namely, that he is under
legal restraint whatever but may do as he wills,
instead II only what the Jaw permits. and that
only in the manner it prescribes.
So sweeping an Indictment could not reason
ably be based on a single incident. 1t must
proceed from the judges well known opinion
that the police are always lawless and are
stantly violating the rights Of citizens of a free
AnglO-SaXOn community. If General Bingham
has behaved lawlessly in the Duffy case there
must be some legal process by which he or the
Police Department can be held responsible. Why
has there been no resort to it?
On the merits of the Duffy case itself as an
instance OF police persecution it is not easy TO
reach a decisive opinion. Justice GaynOr's let
ter stirs Il feeling of strong Indignation. Gen
eral Bingham's reply cOOls that Indignation
promptly. Justice Gaynor says Duffy is an
honest young driver who is being bounded by
the police. General Bingham replies that he is
a self-confessed degenerate and the associate
of criminals. The truth should he found ont.
for accusation made by justice of the
Supreme Court Is too serious to be overlooked,
and If Justice Gaynors estimate of Duffys
character is sustained fancy that no one
will be quicker to punish the responsible police
officers than General Bingham himself
New-York tribune., 1909-06-03
TURKEYS NEW PERI.

There are intimations that new and serious
peril to the rehabiIitated Turkish Empire may
come from within The menace from with
out has largely passed away, dispellcd by the
jealousies and rival ambitions of the other
powers. which have prevented any more serious
Intervention or aggression than the seizure of
Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria Hungary
and of Eastern Rumeia by Bulgaria and the
attempt Of the Bulgarian monarch TO establish
pretensions of sovereignty over all Bulgars in
Turkey and elsewhere. But dssensions and re-
bellion within the empire a different and
more formidable matter, particularly when they
arise in the Asian provinces. Such troubles
have been feared by some from the first, and
particularly since the change of Sultans, and
if those which have already been reported
should increase and become general they would
be watched with much concern, as seriously
jeopardng the whole experiment of Turkish
constitutional reform and threatening the Near
East with the most costly disturbances in mod
ern history.
1t must he borne in mind that the weak
feature of the whole Turkish reform movement
lay in the fact that it was chiefly European in
its inception and execution. The Young Turks
leaders and followers were chiefly European
Turks. Those Armenians who were among
them and who are supporting the consti-
tutional system have long been settled in Con-
stantnople other parts of European Turkey:
many of Them indeed. were born there The
same is, of course. to be said of the Jews.
Greeks and others who are associated with the
movement These all have a community of
interest. and II has not been difficult to secure
substantial agreement among them. regardless
of race or creed. for the reorganization of the
empire. Politically they are no longer Turks.
Armenians, Greeks, Jews or what not but they
are all Ottomans. That is precisely as it should
be. and so far as European Turkey is con
cerned we have no doubt that the experiment
of constituIonalism would prove highly sue
cessful. The trouble is that Asiatic Turkey has
been too much left out of the reckoning and
there is danger that it may now assert itself
and not in harmony with the rest of the empire
Turkey in Asia is far the larger of the two
grand divisions of the Ottoman Empire In
New-York tribune., 1909-06-03
THE c4uP4JGy FOR ECOyolfY.

The plans being made by the administration
and by the Senate leaders to reduce public ex-
penditure are being applauded everywhere be
cause they represent an intelligent effort TO avoid
past mistakes in budget making and TO Fix re
sponsibiiy for the creation Of unwiedy sur
pluses or of still more embarrassing deficits.
The House of Representatives has hitherto been
obliged TO fight practically single handed for
economy in federal expenditure It has, on the
whole, fought consistently and earnestly to hold
down appropriations. but its good intentions
have been too often neutralzed by the sub
mission of extravagant departmental estimates
and by the Senate's chronic tendency to in
crease the amounts carried in the appropriation
acts on the ground that the House had pared the
estimates too closely. Now we are to have the
departments and the two houses acting in con-
Ger: instead OF independently and at cross pur-
poses. The change may be expected TO result
in an important gain for economy and efficient
administration.
There is a general agreement that from $50
100000 TO S50000004 could be saved in next
years appropriations if the knife were applied
ceuraseously. President Taft has begun well
by insisting that the estimates for 1910'11 must
lie well below those for 1909-'10 Yet the esti-
mates Of regular annual appropriations submit
ted for 1909'10 exceeded the amounts granted
by Congress by $60.0O0Oo0. There is plenty Of
room FOR improvement in departmental fore
casts Of expenditure; for if there is deficit
Of S60o00O00 or S7OO0OO0o in 1909-'10 the de-
partments win be charseable with having
asked for appropriations for that year exceeding
the Treasury's income by from S1200o0.0o0 TO
sl30000Oeo.
The administration can undoubtedly ind many
opportunities FOR retrenchment in plans for
military expenditure and possibly in plans for
public works. But il is tied down by the fact
that il must execute the laws made by Con-
eress and expend money on projects authorized
by Congress. The real retrenchment must come
through seIf-denial at the Capitol and refusal
70 commit the government 10 expenditures
which are not clearly necessary. It win be a
good deal OF q struggle TO omit those extrsva-
New-York tribune., 1909-06-03

canoes in which members of Congress are
specially interested Will Congressman be VIII
ing to forswear any further general peHSioh
legislation and tC stop passing private pelloi'-
bills: Each private pension law represents
favor TO some constituent who cannot Obtain
relief under the general laws. Many Congress
men count more for local popularity on thelr
records for putting through private pension
hills than on distinction won along any other
line Of legislative activity. Some Of the most
obvious economies are likely to prove unpala-
T. bic TO REPRESENTATIVES and Senators who are
always for the old flag and an appropriation.
A writer in a recent issue of ''Leslies Week
Iy." discussing the proposed plans for rational
budget making. said:
Examination of the details would disclose
,,, nv ox-rraTdit1res which now depend upon the
personal activity and influence of members Ct
congress which are out of proportion to the re
,,,,irar7ents of the locality to the available
revenue pf the government Needless custom
houses could be abolished, work at the navy
wards could be concentrate salaries could pe
substituted for large fees and the fees i Govete9
into the Treasury, and money could be diverted
from unnecessary local projects to national
projects in conformity with the dignity ana
prestige of the nation.
Such readiustments can be made, but they
will REQUIRE the cultivation of a broader spirit
among legislators. We have called attention to
tbe Senate's repeated rejection of the plan OF
the House Of Representatives for consolidating
the pension agencies There is every sound argu-
ment in favor Of consolidation and none OF
any sort against It except that it would TER
inmate the official lives of number of pension
agents conducting disbursements in dozen
states The perpetuation of those scattered OF
fees is on grounds of local interest considered
more important than the saving and better al
ministration sure to result from creating SIN
gle dishursing bureau at Washington. Again,
would Congress be willing to dispense with
dozens of useless custom houses collecting only
q small fraction of their cost for mainte-
nance? Efforts to pass a law reducing the
number of custom houses and eliminating those
which are such only in name have been twice
defeated recently merely because a few petty
local functionaries would have been affected
The new campaign for economy will test the
fibre of many statesmen who are prone not TO
look beyond the borders of their own dis
tricts or states. We hope that 1t will have the
tonic effect of killing parochialism in the two
houses and creating a deeper and broader spirit
of nationalisn.
New-York tribune., 1909-06-03
SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT.

IBy Telegraph 20 The Triou1e.l
Newport June 2-The Outer Fountain Fis1t,t
Club will have its first outing Of the season Is
latter part OF this month President William Z
Hunter viii be the first host Of the club
Mr and Mrs f Rollins Morse have decided 70
occupy their estate. Villa Rosa. on Bellevue ave-
nue. for g. part of the season at least
Miss Mary Appleton and Mrs Schiefelin OF New
York, have arrived at her cottage for the season
Mr. and Mrs Louis l. LOriliard and Louis L
LoriIIard jr have returned from Lenoz
The summer residences Of Egerton L WiHthrop
Mr. and Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt and M a1i
Mrs Howard G. Gushing, OF Boston, are beng
made ready for oCCupaucy-
Mr. and Mrs Arnold Hague Of Washington, an
Mr. and Mrs Charles F, FairchEd. OF Boston haT'
arrived
Mr.. and Mrs. Royal Phelps Carroll are sEDecHt
the early part Of the week
Mr. and Mrs Elisha Dyer, Miss Laura sV4a
and Miss Patterson arrived this evening Husa
D. AuchinCIoss also arrived
H II. Ward. of New York, was visitor =
Newport to-day.
Mrs. Thomas Janney, Of BaltinOrs. is the gusE
OF Mrs. Paul ~ Andrews.
New-York tribune., 1909-06-03
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY

iIrOm The Tribune Bureau.
Washington, June 2-WashngtOn's social colony
IS daily growing smaller, and except for Informal
dinners. luncheons and teas at the Chevy Chase
and the Country cIubs-many OF them Dutch
treats'-the period of formal entertainment is az
end. Mr.. and Irs H,nnen Jennings closed their
house to-day and have gone New York prepara-
tory going to California for the summer Mr.. and
Mrs Thomas T. Gaff will depart Monday for
their summer place at OstervilIe Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles II. Poor have gone to Lake SkaneateIes.
N Y. and Saturday Will mark the closing OF a
large number OF houses which have been social
centres during tho winter and spring
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Hague preparing to go
TO Newport to open their cottage for the summer.
Miss Mathilde Townsend has leased a cottage at
Bar Harbor for the summer and will be chaperOned
by her mothers friend. Mrs Rush Shippen Huide-
koper. widow of Dr. Huidekoper, of Philadelphia.
Mrs. Townsend will go abroad.
DR.. William r. Dear, L. 5. A., stationed at the
Army Medical School. this city at s o'clock this
evening at the Mount Pleasant Congregational
Church married Miss Greeta Marian Tibbitts.
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. James Harvey Tibbitts.
the Rev. George A Miller officiating. Mrs. William
s. Bird. Of New York. matron. of honor. and
Miss Laura CLANCY and Miss Lillian Dear acted as
bridesmaids. Miss Alfredo Jones flower girl.
DR. Dear had best man Dr. Joseph Rogers and
as ushers DR.. Henry Coburn Dr. John Warming.
the Army Medical School; DR.. Charles s White,
Walter b. Guy and William Warren. \ reception
started on a short wedding journey. They viii
make their home here.
Or. and Mrs Duncan McIlim will close their
New-York tribune., 1909-06-03
UNDERGRADUATE IDEALS.

President Lowell of Harvard University Is
doubtless right in his diagnosis of the attitude
of undergraduate students toward the college
course. I'VE have not convinced him. 1.-THE young
mani. he says. that high scholarship is a
manly thing worthy of his devotion. or that
"our examinations are faithful tests of intel
"lectual power; and in so far we have failed
"in this we have come short Of what we ought
Ito do" 1t is certainly true that college stu
dents in general refuse to take the intellectual
side of college life seriously. They are all agreed
that a course in college Is a good thing for
them, but most of them feel that the least rart
of its benefit comes from intellectual laborS
The man who works hard at the tasks which
the faculty sets him is too commonly looked
on rs a grind and there is word of greater
scorn than that in the undergraduate yocabu-
larry. He is travelling the road to success III
college and-failure in life" He has chosen
the immediate and lesser end. Others SDrry
for him. He is an example to be Stunned.
The college student talks a great deal about
life" His college career as he manages II Is
preparing him more completely for life than
he could be prepared IN any other way. II he
should let the faculty control it more fully he
would be untitled for life" He would he
better than the poor grind strong In unmar-
ketable nOn-essentials. He is Of this. Self
preservation being the first law Of nature 10
defes the faculty to spoil him for the real
world and energies from college in his own
opinion "a well rounded man" 1t is curious.
this belief Of the student that a college course
is next door to invaluable TO him, but that the
faculty has nothing TO do with making * in
valuable. If President Lowell can succeed In
making students take seriously the ideals Of
scholarship held by the faculty II he can give
a sense of real life" TO the intellectual side OF
college training he will accomplish something
like marvel in American education.
New-York tribune., 1909-06-03
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.
TFr0n me TrIhune Bureau


Washington. June 2-The Italian Ambassador
and Baroness Mayor des PIanches. who have sew
eraL times postponed their departure for italy. viii
probably sail from New York June Is. Immedi-
ately after their departure the counsellor OF the
embassy and Marchesa di Montagliari will 20 10
Mrs. Tappan's Highland cottage, Manchester,
Mass. for the summer.
The German Ambassador has gone 10 New York,
to remain for several days He has leased cot
tage Beverly Farms. Mass. for the summer.
The British Ambassador and Mrs Bryce VIII
have their guest this week Lady William Har-
court, of England. She is visiting Mrs.
Henry c. Russell at Providence.
Mr.. Matsui Mr.. Hanhara, Commander Hirasa
and Major Tanaka all of the japanese Embassy
staff. who accompanied Vice-Adrniral and Baroness
Uriu to New York yesterday, returned here with
tehm to-day. Baron UriU the guest OF honor
the class dinner OF the Annapolis cadets. Glass
of 81, given at the Metropolitan Club tonight.
with Representative Weeks as host. aud will be the
guest OF honor a dinner At the Japanese Embassy
to- mi igb
New-York tribune., 1909-06-03
TWO ERRORS.

Reports of the distressing automobile acct
dent in which Il boy was Killed At Stratford.
Conn. on Tuesday reveal the persistence Of
two grievous errors which have often been oh
served In former disasters and which cannot be
too earnestly corrected.
The driver of the car is reported TO have said
that he sounded a warning horn. but that the
noise of a passing railroad train probably pre-
vented the victim from hearing 1t. 1t is great
mistake to suppose that an aut0mODilists
whole duty 10 the public is performed when he
has sounded the horn and that it is the duty Of
everybody else to hear the horn and to heed
it by instantly getting cut of the road An auto
mobile has such right of way, and all the
horn sounding in the world does not relieve the
chauffeur of the duty of being just as careful
to avoid running others down as he would be
if he sounded no horn at all.
Again, witnesses of the accident say that the
driver of the car took his life in his hands and
did all in his power TO prevent the accident"
He did all, that IS TO say, except TO keep his car
within a safe limit of speed for ii is testified
that the car was running very fast at the time
1t seems to be true that the driver at the last
moment swerved his car in a desperate effort to
avoid hitting the boy, so that he ran il against
telephone pole and narrowly escaped killing
himself. Nevertheless. it is a mistake to sup
pose that reckless and illegal speeding is TO be
atOned for by even the most strenuous and self
sacrificing efforts to avoid its consequences.
1t needs TO be remembered by autOmobilists
that they have no special privileges on the
streets, that they have no more right TO order
people out Of the way with their horns than
other people have to order them off the street
and that If they run at an unlawful and unsafe
rate Of speed they must expect to be held ac
Countable for whatever happens as result of
that fact. If these elementary principles were
more generally borne in mind and acted upon
we should have fewer tragedies on the high
New-York tribune., 1909-06-03
AMBITIOUS ELECTRICAL scHEnE.

A proposition, made ten years or more ago, to
convey power in the form of electricity from a
point Oh the upper Rhone TO Paris is receiving
fresh consideration The promoters promise an
unfailng supply of 100000 horsepower when
the programme has been fully carried out Re
cent notifications Of the law in France making
it possible TO utilize private rights of way along
a part of the route reduce the estimated length
of the transmission line to about two hundred
and fifty miles. Professor Blonde its chief
advocate believes that pressure of 10000
volts could he easily maintained If an alternat-
ing current were used, and 10000 or 100000
volts with the use Of d direct current Indeed
he is so favorably impressed with the claims of
NJ. Thury, n Swiss engineer who has invented
the apparatus for raising and lowering the volt
age of direct current-a notable innOvati ton
that he thinks voltage OF 100000 might be
found practicable
So unfamiliar are American electricians with
the Thury system, which is said 10 have rem
dered fairly successful service in modest enter
prises in Europe, that they will probably hesi-
tate to form an opinion regarding it's suitability
for the work in question Little doubt
will be entertained, however in regard to the
feasibility of carrying out the plan in other re-
spects, If an alternating current is adopted.
For more than year a pressure of 10000
volts has been employed on a transmission line
in Michigan. So well do the improved insulat-
ors used on that line prevent a leakage of cur
rent that a contract was closed a few weeks
ago by Canadian power company for the con-
New-York tribune., 1909-06-03

struction of line to transmit current ar Tue
same pressure Professor Blondels plan there
fore calls for only Il slight advance over WnaC
has actually been accomplished and prooaDN
few electricians think that even 12O,oOo Volts
will mark the limit beyond which 1t will be I'M
possible TO go
In the length of the proposed trench iiile
there does not now seem TO be anything unrea-
sonable One transmission line in CahIorhla
(from Colgate to San FTanciscO) is more IMAM
200 miles long and the Increase In the us
tance to be covered in France is only about one
quarter 1t is automatic that the higheE ule
voltage used the further current can be sent
over a wire of a given size Professor Bioh-
deIs scheme is much less pretentious than lhe
one which contemplated transmitting power oVo
or 700 miles from Victoria Falls but which mas
never been carried out.
Almost the only question to be answered rel'-
tive to the French project is VIII II pay
Many things are technically feasible whlch are
commercially impracticable. That is appar-
emily the trouble with the South African enter
prise referred to- What Professor Blohdei
needs TO ascertain is whether he could sell eleC-
trically generated power, light and heat III
Paris more cheaply than they are now produceu
bv steam, and yet be able 70 pay his operating
expenses and the interest on the necessary III
vestment. which he estimates Mt S2ooooVoo
New-York tribune., 1909-06-03

area If is more than ten times the larger and III
population nearly three times Turkey IN Eu-
rope comprises only 66500 square miles WIN
population of only little more than 6oooOOO'
of whom not more than 10000 are TURKS III
key in Asia. on the other hand, includes fully
6S0OO0 square miles. with n population OF L.
100000 of whom the vast majority are Turks
or at anv rate MOslems. 1t has four or hYe
cities much larger than any i'll European Iui-
kew save only Constantinople, and its raliroao
systems in Asia Minor. Syria and Arabia us
inland navigation on the Tigris and Euphrates
and its maritime commerce are OF enormous
Importance. Also. it contains the three hoiy
cities of the Mahometan wOrld-Nlecca. Medina
and Kerbela-and is the scene of the great re
gous piIgrimages of Islam.
The Asatic Turks are of all the most fanat-
caI in devotion to their faith, the most war
like. and the least in sympathy with European
civilization and cOnSttutiOnalism. 1t is true
that ancient IConium sent the chief of the
Whiring DerviShes TO grid Mehemed with the
scimitar of Gilman. But there Is reason to fear
that many of the Turks of Asia will resent and
perhaps resist what they may regard as the
dictation of their fewer brethren in Europe.
They are twenty times more numerous; why
should they let the tail wag the dog More
over. they are in far closer touch With the rest
of the Moslem world. particularly in Persia and
India. Recently the troops Mt Damascus. the
second city of the empire, We're reported 10
have refused TO recognize Mehemed as Sui
tan. If they should persist in that attitude
and should be Joined in it by other Asian gar
risons. there would he n serious menace to MS
standing as Sultan. and also as Caliph OF lslam
the latter being a dignity which many never
conceded even to Abdul Hamid. What infiu-
ence the Sheik-uI-Islam and the ulema at Con
stantinopIe will have in allaying disaffection
and marshalling the Faithful into line in sup
port of the new sovereign and the new order re
mains to he seen. Upon its efficiency depends
the Integrity Of the Ottoman Empire