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New-York tribune., 1909-02-03
ONE WAY OUT. PERHAPS.

The proposal Of the Standard Oil Company of
Indiana TO the State OF Missouri. from which
it has just been banished, IS: IF you will let
Ia continue 10 do business within your borders
I'VE wiz put that business under the supervision
of ycuF courts and let you name one of two
trustees TO conduct it. That is public regula-
fion raised 10 the nth power. Under the terms
of the proposal the state would have an equal
vcice with the corporation in the management
of its affairs. TO see that the laws were obeyed.
that the public received proper treatment" and
that the company was conducted lin a way
11lat is fair. just and lawful" That it is done
under conIpulsion is not especially significant,
for states can exert the same sort of compulsion
upon any corporation that violates their laws.
IL corporations may be brought TO offer such
terms TO states as the Standard Oil Company
has just offered TO Missouri evidently the power
10 Danish disobedient corporations from within
their borders, recently confirmed by the Su-
preme Court N the Waters Pierce case, is going
10 exert a powerful influence on the develop
ment Of the relations between big corporations
and the public.
Representation Of the public on the boards
Of directors OF corporations has been suggested
before but never has it been proposed until
now that such representation should be any
thing but small minority Perhaps If It is
tried in this case, or in some subsequent case
where q corporation is ready to yield at dis
cretion rather than TO face banishment 1t may
work well AID give an impetus toward a new
movement for the regulation of corporations
A condition under which there would be private
ownership, but ia which society would have a
sufficient voice IN business management would
differ greatly from conditions to-day but would
differ even more from socialism. Mr. Taft has
seid that the problem of civilization is TO pre-
serve private ownership and prevent its abuse.
L is perhaps significant that private ownership
under rude compulsion should itself come for
ward with plan whiehsit thinks would do that
New-York tribune., 1909-02-03
RUssIA's PENAL ADMINISTRATION.

The interpretations copcerning the alleged
Russian system of spies and provocative agents
which were made in the Douma yesterday were
an important addition TO the campaign which
has been III progress for some time for the gen
eral reform of that empires police and penal
administration. Protests were ~ecentIy made in
the Douma against the wholesale imposition of
the capital penalty, often for insufficient reasons
We are told that in 1908 no fewer than I957
persons were condemned and 7S2 were actually
put to death. Even in so pOpuous a country as
Russia that is an appalling record, irresistibly
suggesting either too great prevalence OF
serious crimes or g too great severity of the
authorities. There will be a widespread inclIna-
ton toward the latter explanation in view of
the outspoken representations and protests Of
Mr.. MilukOff and his colleagues in the Douma
and in view of the nature of many of the cases
which have been reported to the Douma Thus.
of II men who were recently sentenced 10
death a single day 81 were men whose
sole offence had been participation in or
at most leadership of, the Ekaternoslav rail-
road strikes of 1905. 1t does not appear that
they were convicted of manslaughter or other
crimes in connection with the strikes. More
over, they had not been arrested and kept in
confinement since the strikes. For three years
they had been at liberty, going peacefully about
their business with no thought Of evil, when
suddenly they were arrested, rushed through q
trial and condemned to death.
Nor are these wholesale death sentences the
only reproach to the penal administration Of
Russia. Mr.. Shingaref, a member of the
Douma. reports, apparently without authoritative
contradiction, that the average daily number
Of persons IN the jails and prisons OF Russia
rose from 50, ,104 in 1905 TO 1e9,5Te in 1908. ons
result Of ii being overcrowding to an almost
incredible degree. In the main prison OF Kieff
which was built for only 500 prisoners. 1000
are now confined. and in its hospital which was
designed for only 3S, there were lately
339 patients. Even worse than the crowdIng is
the cruelty with which prisoners are treated.
Thus, at Kostroma. confinement In the 'back
hole is, under the rules, limited 10 seven days,
but a matter of fact 1t is commonly extended
70 several months. That means that twenty or
thirty men are confined for that time inces-
sanity, without even a moments respite, in a
single stone lined room, from which every ray
Of light natural or artificial, is absolutely ex-
cluded and in which only the smallest degree
Of ventilation Ii permitted, q room devoid Of
New-York tribune., 1909-02-03
RIGHT DIAGNOSIS. WRONG CURE.

Mr. William Barnes, jr., of Albany in dag
nosng the demand that exists for change in
the primary system, says that local leaders
irreverently called bosses" have thought Of
themselves patronage brokers'" when they
should have been leaders OF opinion" He is
right. There is no doubt that the people have
looked in vain for leadership in persons who
called themselves leaders, and that this is re-
sDonsible for whatever desire for change exists
but the cause for the failure of the local leaders
in New York State to measure up to the needs
of their positions is not what Mr.. Barnes sup
poses il TO be. The disease is too widespread
TO be accounted for by the changes In the ma
chinery of the Republican party in this state
within the last few years. So-called leaders
have turned out TO be needy patronage
brokers' everywhere else. as well as in New
York
If Mr.. Barnes thinks that he can save the
day for the present system by calling for an
exhibition of true capacity for leadership he
is probably mistaken. The people remember too
strongly the incapacity exhibited last summer
by habitual patronage brokers' TO appreciate te
principles and moral ideas as exemplified in
the candidacy of Governor Hughes for renom-
ination to hope for any reform so long as the
control of parties may be maintained by pat
ronage broking methods. Given conditions
in the long run, and there will be real leader
ship. For the present, regrets that 1t was lost
sight of in office brokerage will only serve as
a reminder how when the devil was sick the
devil monk would be-
New-York tribune., 1909-02-03
NEW YORK SOCIETY.

Mrs James b Haggin gave a large musical last
night at her house, IN Fifth avenue, with Nine.
Fremstad. Bonci. Gilbert ana MISS Ada SdSSOl'
as features OF the programme Among her guests
vvere Mr. and Mrs E J. Berwind Mr.. and MIS-
FcIbridge T. Gerry. Mr.. and Mrs. Robert l. Gerry,
Miss Angelica and Miss Mabel Gerry. Justice and
Mrs James ". Gerard, Nj and Mrs X tui'oh
Cutting. Egerton L. Winthrop Mrs- hicnaro SaIl
I'm Rtr and Mrs E II Hartman. Miss Harri-
man Mr. and Mrs. Charles b. Alexander M and
Mrs Henry Ph!pps. Mr.. and Mrs GOodhue LIZ
ingston Mr. and Mrs. Ogden Mills. MI and Mrs-
Pembroke Jones. Mr.. and Mrs. r LorliaFu INo'i-
- NJ and Mrs F 6 Witherbee, Mr.. and Mrs.
Lcarrick Riggs Mr.4aud Mrs Ben Ali HagSln'
Countess Festetlcs Mr.. and Mrs Henry Clews
LADY PaSet Mr. and Mrs c. c. Cuyler, NiscoInte
de Perigny Frederick Townsend Martin Mr.. ana
Mrs Richard p I.ounsbery. Mr.. and Mrs Henry
o,erranont Perry Phoenix Ingraham. Worthington
xybitebouse. Mr. and Mrs. L. Butler Preston, Mrs
New-York tribune., 1909-02-03
H4YPERTNG 4 REAL STATESMAN.

A plain district judge IN Oklahoma, hitherto
unknown to fame, has presumed TO question
the omnscience and disarrange the plans vi
Otlahoma's greatest statesman, constitutional
is+ and Rryanistic and JeffersOnian Democrat
the late treasurer of the Democratic Nauohal
Committee. Governor Charles n. Haskell MI
Haskell was the author of the famous Okla
homa constitution and when he was elected
Governor he naturally began applying it to SUI
his own ideas and purposes He consldereu
himself IT'S most authoritative interpreter. Dur
ing the last campaign he Gstonshed the OUTSIDE
world bv holding that he could forbid the AT
torney General of the state to bring sults' ana
cou1d himself enter the courts as the states
legal representative to upset the Attorney Gen
erals actions In his opinion he was the state
and the other state officers were merely super
numerares.
An oklahoma Judge, A. H Huston. has heart
IessIy taken exception to Governor HaskeiPs
claim Of universally Of authority. He holds,
according TO dispatches from Guthrie, that suits
In the name of the state can be brought only
nv the State Attorney General or o county at
1orney. The father of the Oklahoma consutu-
ton is thus balked and rebuffed- lie must SIT
back and let mere judicial subordinates conduct
+he states law business It IS one more sad
evidence that true worth and readiness 10 serve
the public are not appreciated The Governor
we are told will take an appeal to the okIa-
homa Supreme Court and then doubtless TO the
Supreme Court of the United States Shall he
be ANONYMOUSLY cribbed, cabined and confined?
Is he 10 he prohibited from interpreting his own
constitution to suit himself? y thousand times
no. He ought to propose referendum abolish
ing the state judiciary and the state department
of Justice and constituting himself the sole and
sufficient depository of legal authority in Okla
homa
New-York tribune., 1909-02-03
WILL OF MRS. FRANKLIN B. LORD.
Children Receive All the Estate. with the Ex-
ception of Few Bequests.

Mineola. Long Island. Feb 2.-The will Of
Josephine @ Lord. widow of Franklin B. Lord. Of
Cedarhurst was fled for probate here to-day.
Mrs Lord died recently at Quebec. The vii!
leaves $4,000 in trust for Bertha c. Purdy' a
sister of the testator- Upon her death the IN
come Is 10 go TO EmsIie NJ. Gillette, brother OF
the testato and upon his death half the principal
Is to revert to the children OF Mrs. Lord and
half to her niece. Bertha Purdy. further sum
of s25 900 is left to Mrs. Purdy-
The Church Charities Foundation Of Long ISL
and receives $1,000, one-third OF which is 20 be
devoted to the work Of it's orphan asylum. 4
similar sum is given to the Presbyterian Hos
pital The Diocesan Missions of Long Island re-
caiye SIS OOO to be used in the archdeaconry OF
Queens and Nassau The Rev. Henry Mesier, OF
Far Rockaway, gets $4,000 Eighteen employees
receive $3.50 each.
All books given TO Mr.. Lord left to his
son. Edward Crary Lord. To George De Forest
Lord another son. is left q ring with pearls.
Franklin b Lord IT.. third son. receives col
lection OF pistols. spear heads and foils. The
estate is valued at s4.o0o,o0o. which the children
receive with the exception Of the bequests men
toned.
New-York tribune., 1909-02-03
THE TALK or THE DAY.

One of the most remarkable places In Europe.
Of which no tourist pleasure bent ever takes
notice says a writer in Berlin paper, is the
"Citv of the Insane by which name Gheei, near
Antwerp has been known for generations About
fifteen hundred men and women, afflicted with In
sanity in all its forms. live there. and have
happy being as the guests" OF the inhabitants
who know by experience how TO treat the un-
fortunate ones In the streets. in the places or
amusement the cafes and workshops these pa
tfents may be found. and nowhere is there the
remotest suggestion Of restraint apparent, The
hoard ranges from Zi9 to 2.400 marks year. and
no matter how small the amount may be, thS
patient is always the favored member OF the
family He has the first right to the most COM
Portable chair. and the head OF the table belongs
to him He receives the most attention, and this
he learns to appreciate and to endeavor 10 main
tain nv living down his illness. Even the clul-
dren know how treat the demented people.
The dangerous ones sent to another settle
,oent and to institutions. It Is wonderful how
considerate. careful and kind the simple people
are toward their charges, and peep into the
community would prGkably terrify physicians who
had never heard OF and could not appreciate the
good which is being done in this City of the In
New-York tribune., 1909-02-03
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New-York tribune., 1909-02-03
Ny. ALUMNI UNsATIsFIED.
Chancellor's Plan for Representation IN OOn
ell May Not Be Accepted.

The fifteen thousand members ot the aluInA -
socfations of the New York University are Ho' =
thusiastic over the acceptance of the plan Fesl1
submitted by Chancellor NIacCracken providing -
representation OF the alumni bodies on the unl-s-
sity council. which is the board of trustees -
proposition viii 5e considered at the annual ala9
Of the alumni association OF the department :
arts and sciences. TO be held at the MshNa'
Hotel on L1,s evening OF February g. II Is sLSo =
pected that the law alumni. which has NO -
sand members, and Of which Justice Vie-'' .
Dowling IS president. and the medical 49, 49,
which has ten thousand members, and OF - =
DR.. Egbert lie Fevre Is president viii hola -. -
ings within the next two weeks TO conside1 -
matter.
An officer of the Arts and Sciences Alumni - -
citation said last night in regard 70 the pan -
posed by the university authorities
1T IS very doubtful whether or not the pan - ~,
posed will be accepted by the alumni ooo'es. -
are not given representation on the coul-'-, -
merely the privilege not as members OF an -
association. but as individuals OF making q j.,
nation for the council. which does not H- H91-
election or the person so nominated Inc p-os, i.
tiOn received from the university councli az
recognize the alumni bodies in any manner
New-York tribune., 1909-02-03
CHINA IN EARNEST.

The recent imperial Chinese decree Teafhrm-
ing the intention OF the government 10 estho-
Jish constitutional system In the empire ana
commanding unwavering persistence III the
oreparations for that achievement IS note
worthy manifesto ton of good faith and con-
stant resolution. It will be remembered, not
with great pleasure, that at the first proclama-
tion of the constitution doubts of Chinas sin
cer;tv were widely expressed, and these were
repeated many times during the lifetime or
the late Emperor and Empress DowaGer; ana
when the new sovereign came to the throne
there were many who instantly and confidently
assumed that there would be no more heard
of a constitution in China. But the course OF
events has shown that the late Emperor and
Empress DOwager were entirely sincere IN their
professions and intentions, and that the new
Emperor. or rather the new Regent, is equally
sincere in maintaining them and proceeding
with their execution. There Is q fine character
istic touch OF phrasing in the decree, which IS
worthy of remembrance. From ourselves
down 10 the officials and people, declares the
sovereign "all must sincerely obey the excel
lent decree previously issued. The eighth
'year of Hsuan Tung is the limit of time. Let
"tnere be no reabsorption of sweat in this mat
ter
In undertaking the reorganization Of the
whole governmental system and the adoption
of constitution on the Western plan, as in the
slInpression Of the opium traffic and other af-
fairs China has moved with much deliberation,
hut with infexible resolution. It is familiar,
and largely a true remark that her ways are
not as our ways and perhaps It has never been
more strikingly exemplifed than in this pres
snt case It would be difficult TO imagine
European or an American nation as setting
specitic date ten years In advance, for such
transformation of its governmental system, and
then deliberately but persistenty working tow
ard it and preparing for 1t step by step. This
act shall take effect Immediately Is our usual
formula In China there Is not much a revO-
luton as an evolution; not a change, but
growth Her passing from absolutism to consti-
tutionaiism is not a sudden and arbitrary up
heaval, such rs has been attended with much
Russia but resembles rather one Of the delib-
crate processes of nature.
We have said that this reaffirmation of i'm
perial intention is noteworthy. 1t is, but still
more is it reasonable and natural and it would
have been more creditable to the world at large
not to have regarded it with so much surprise
There is by far too great an inclination toward
doubt and skepticism in international affairs
particularly among Western nations in their
attitude toward the nations of the East We
would not say, Of course, that every national
the fact is that the breaking of national faith
is n rarity. There has appeared to us no rea-
son for doubling the good faith and earnest
resolution OF China in her movement toward
constituticnalism
New-York tribune., 1909-02-03
THE CABINET.
IErom The Tribune Bureau. ]

IErom The Tribune Bureaul
Washington Feb. 2-The President and Mrs
Roosevelt were the guests at dinner tonight of the
Secretary of the Navy and Mrs Eewberry. Those
who came from Detroit TO meet them the
brother and sister-in-law OF the secretary, Mr
and Mrs John s. Newberry; his brother-in-law
and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Joy; Mr.. and
Mrs Cyrus Lothrop and Mr. and Mrs. Strathearn
Henry The other members of the party were
Victor Barnes Of New York. Mrs. Newberrys 8
brother; Representative wilkes. Mrs. DENLY and
Miss Carol Newberry. The Secretary and Mrs
Newberry entertained their Western guests at
luncheon on the Mayfower to-day, inviting num-
Der Of others to meet them. The entire party will
go to New York tomorrow.
Mrs. Bonaparte Joined the Attorney General here
to-day to attend a dinner in their honor tonight
and will return to Baltimore tomorrow.
Mrs. James r. Garfield. wife Of the Secretary o1
the Interior, returned here this afternoon from a
visit Of several days with their sons. who are al
school az Waterbury, Conn.
New-York tribune., 1909-02-03
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
rFron The Tribune Bureau. ]


washington Feb 2-The Speaker and Miss Can
non entertained at dinner tonight Secretary WI
son. Senator and Mrs. Elkins, Representative and
Mrs Serene E. Payne, Representative and Mrs
George F. HUFF. Representative and Mrs Hughes
Representative and Mrs. Washburn. Representative
and Mrs. Parker the secretary Of the Smithsonian
Institution and Mrs. Walcott Mr.. and Mrs Henry
Kirk Porter Mrs. Mark Hanna Mrs J. l. Loose
and AIr. Glover.
Mrs Stanley Matthews entertained Justice and
Mrs Holmes and other members Of the judiciary
and their wives dinner tonight to meet the At
torney General and Mrs. Bonaparte- Mrs Matthew's
viii have a number of New York people guests
for the inauguration.
Mrs Clarence Mackay. who has been the guest
of Representative and Mrs. Bourke Cochran for
come days. returned to New York this morning
Among those entertaining large dinner parties To-
night were Senator Gu Pont. Senator ana Mrs
Briggs and Representative and Mrs. Weeks
Mrs Robert Shaw Oliver has returned from
visit TO her daughters Mrs Choate and Mrs. Fred
erick K Stevens, OF New York.
New-York tribune., 1909-02-03
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.
IFrom The Tribune Bureau-l

The Tribune Bureau
Washington, Feb. 2-The French Ambassador
and Nine Jusserand invited guests to dinner at
the embassy tonight to meet the Secretary OF
State and Mrs Bacon and the Secretary Of war
and Mrs. Wright The others Of the party were
the Turkish Ambassador. the Persian Minister
Senator and Mrs Crane. the Assistant secretary
OF tie Treasury and Mrs Beekman Winthron the
Naval Attache of the Austrian Embassy and Bar
o1ass Preuschen und zu Liebenstein' MAJOR
General and Mrs. Greely. Mr.. and Mrs Legare
Miss Lee, the French Naval Attache and Nine os
BIanpre. and the French Third Secretary and Wis
countess de Martel
Mr. do ArlaraI. Brazilian counsellor VINO VIII
accompany the Ambassador here upon his return
from Cuba the first Of next week. has been pro-
rcted to a similar position with the Brazilian
Embassy at the Court OF st. .JaTness. He has been
counsellor Of the embassy here for about three
New-York tribune., 1909-02-03
We recently noted the fact tba,

We recently noted the fact that California
produced more petroleum last year than any
other state in the Union. A bu letin OF the
United States Geological Survey now shows
that her output (about forty-fve million bar
rels) fully one-fourth Of the total produc-
ton Of the country. No new fields have been
discovered but there was increased activity
in the older ones, the demand being great
enough to stimulate prices. Better transpor-
taton facilities made 1t possible to export large
quantities, not only to markets on the Ameri-
can coast as far away as Alaska and Chill but
also 70 Hawaii and Japan. A pipe line which
seems TO have benefited this export trade pos-
sesses a novel feature In order TO increase the
fluidity OF crude oil which is te be pumped it
New-York tribune., 1909-02-03

bods banchas or anv furniture whatever, and
of even the most rudimentary provisions for
cleanliness or sanitation During all the une
of their incarceration the men have no baths'
no change of clothing, and indeed nothlng save
the stone walls and utter blackness, and enough
water and coarse bread to keep them alive. In
the great Butyrki prison at Moscow similar I'M
nrisonment is practised with the addition or
revolving physical tortures, Of fogging ana KICK
ing and when prisoners are put to death the
work is intrusted not to officers but TO the most
hardened Of the other prisoners Tor them 10
perform 1t in whatever savage fashlon theh
depraved instincts suggest
These tales must for the sake OF humanity
ha susnected of some exaggeration. Yet there
is So much nonfrmative testimony from various
Indanandent sources that it is difficult to avoid
tbe conviction that they are largely true and
+bo+ +he Denal administration Of Russia Is marked
with evils which should be -intoleraole Ihls
conviction will be greatly strengthened If now
q ,s demonstrated that many Of the convicts
who have been sent to the gallows and VINO
crowd the prisons were in fact 1nc1ted 10 the
commission Of their crimes by the provocative
agents Of the police. It is not conceivable that
the Gar and his ministers order or sanction
these abuses which are rather to be regarded as
incidental TO the transition period which the
anonire is now experiencing, and as due TO tne
dan,oraIization of the subordinate officials VINO
have largely passed from the direct control of
the old autocracy and are not yet under the
efficient direction Of the new constitutional sys-
rem. and who, meantime, are partly law unto
themselves and are partly the victims of circum-
stances with which they are incompetent 10
daol The deplorable situation is one Of the
strongest of arguments for all possible and
prudent expedition in effecting the complete
reorganization of the Russian government on
M oDIigbtenad constitutional basis.