The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-06

chairman of the house committee. For
the present the home of the club is at
| the Waldorf Astoria The club mum
bers about 600 members, large num-
Der of whom are prominent residents
| OF Colorado, North Dakota, California.
| Oregon and Texas, each of these states
beng represented on the list of hon
orary presidents, which also in
cludes President Porforie Diaz of Mex
ico Memberships in the club is open
only TO residents or former residents,
sons or residents and sons OF former
residents of the states included in the
region al the Rocky mountains.
Memorial to Indian.
| Mr.: Rodman Wanamaker is very
cohhdent mat before many years have
! passed the statute OF liberty win have
been given a consort in the shane of .
herolc figure of the North American
! indian; who, standing at the mouth of
! New ork harbor, Will show TO the
world the debt of gratitude we owe
Inc aboriglne and TO remind the ages
TO come Of the finer, better traits of
the Indian. typified by his welcome.
WIN hands onTstretched, to the first
whlie man to reach these shores. 1t is
likely that il the memorial is estab-
hshed 1t will be at one of the forts near
the mouth OF the harbor of New
York. 1t viii he well down the Mar
! rows, farther out than the great statuo
oil liberty It will be magnificent in
SIZE, but, as is appropriate. something
less IN proportion than the liberty
statue. The matter is already before
congress In the shane of bill permit
ting the erection Of the statue without
cost to the federal government. Mr..
,M.,anamaker himself is prepared to give
literally, but IL is deemed desirable 10
nave contributions to the fund cpmc
from various sources. The order of Red
Men all over the country are enthu.
siastic IN the movement and are ready
TO contribute. 1t is proposed 10 obtain
penny contributions from schoo! chil.
dren and otherwise add TO the fund
from many hands, so that there will be
the wider and deeper interest in the
plan.
When Movement Started
It was last Nav that the movement
for this great bronze statue to The
INDIAN In New York harbor was
started. Mr., Wauamaker gave n din.
ner IN New York in honor of Buffalo
Bill The dinner in itself was IL re.
markablc gathering. II included such
distinguished Indian fighters as Gen
eral Nelson a. Miles, General Leonard
Wood. Buffalo Bill and Pawnee Bill
Side by side with them sat Chief Iron
shell and his, son, Harry Ironshcll
Frederic Remington. the great Indian
artist, was present, and many promi-
nent. public men. At this dinner the
speakers took up the idea which Mr..
Wanamakcr had long entertained, that
OF erecting heroic statue TO the In.
dian in New York harbor. Every
speaker strongly approved it, the press
took 1t up and now there is scarcely a
state IN the union from which favor
able sentiment has not been evoked
President Taft is friendly 10 the idea
of such n statue. So is Vice President
sherman. The cabinet members gen
orally are favorable TO the suggestion.
Many members Of the house and sen
ate have written Mr.. Wanamakcr ia,
yorablc letters, So have leading sol
diers and Indian fighters and many
public mon.
New Police Inspector
The fact that Chief Police Inspector
Max SchmIttbergcr has been superseded
rs the head Of the uniformed force calls
attention to his career. When I first
knew Schmlttbcrger he was the con.
hdential wardman of the famous in
spcctor, then Captain Alex Williams
When Roosevelt became police commits
sloner Schmlttberger was his right hand
man and pnt him wise to all the ms
anG-outs of the force, After the SeXow
investigation Schmittbergc was in
eclipse for n while, but by sheer force
of ability he worked his way 10 the
head of the uniformed force,
One Serious Menace.
The influx of foreigners of criminal
tendencies INTO the United States and
the disposition Of this element 10 hang
about New York has gotten to bc a
serious menace. 1T is probable that the
remarkable figures shown in thc ar
nual report Of the superintendent Of
state s prison will lead to drastic
amendments in the immigration laws
Superintendent Collins urges that the
federal government either keep this
class out or assume the burden Of keep
ing them in federal prisons. Fully %
per cent OF the prisoners in New York
are aliens and almost another % per
cent arc Of foreign birth, but natural.
| iZcd, Mr.. Collins says: GAS 50 per
cent of the alien prisoners now in our
prisons are unmarried, and less than
| so per cent of the married men have
wives or children in the United States
the claim that man should not be
deported, leaving helpless family here
would apply 10 but few of the present
alien prison population. It is a fact
worthy of note' says the supcrln
tendcnt, 'that among the nineteen con
dcmncd prisoners there was no natural
iZed citizen of tho United States, nor
do the prison records show that a
naturalized citizen has been executed
in this state since the electrical execu-
tion law took effect in 1889. The total
number of executions during this period