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New-York tribune., 1911-12-10
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A hard legal fight is to be made by some
of the officers booked for retirement for
age on December 81. Colonel William G.
Bates Of the list Regiment has been en-
gagged to bring an action I'm court TO have
the retiring law declared unconstitutional.
Colonel Bates, as counsel for the officer or
officers protesting against age retirement.
has informed Adjutant General Verbeck
that he will begin the legal battle after
January /. when the officers retire. Opinion
is divided upon the probable outcome OF
the contest While some are Of the most
pronounced belief that the retirement laU
is unconstitutional. there are other well
informed officers equally positive chat it
Will be upheld by the courts.
Many officers express regret that there
will be a legal action over the retirement
law, and declare il would be much better
for the officers concerned to accept the law
gracefully. AS one we'll known officer said:
Some of the officers who are past the age
of retirement evidently want 10 remain in
the guard for life, and do not desire to
obey a law passed by the Legislature and
an order signed by the commander In
chief. This does not show such officers to
advantage to say the least, and is unfair
to the national guard in general Why
should these officers insist on holding their
Offices for life and block out all the young
or element from promotion? The retiring age
Of siXty-four in the military is a necessary
one and reasonable one In the military
younger mer are needed in high positions
who are active and progressive. All the
great generals OF the world Won their
greatest Victories when young men. Ger
tainly before the age OF ffty. This legal
action promises TO upset things in the
guard for a while and may prevent it's
progress. When General Smith rctires for
age on December 81 II IS likely that the
election for his successor may be delayed
In this connection | understand that there
is serious consideration OF detailing Gen
eral McCOskry Butt from the supernumer-
airy list 10 command. This could be done
at once without any trouble. and, in my
opinion and also that OF some others quail
fled TO judge. would be- "A wise move. The
general has "a wide military knowledge. Is
young and progressive. and IL the only
brigadier general In the state who was In
command of troops preparing them for
active service during the var with Spain
The retirement law Is favored by the
large majority Of national guard officers.
ana a further law IL favored providing that
the term Of office for the major general
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have their reasons for suspecting a certain
person or gang. They arrange with the
favorite drinking establishment of that in
dividual or group for identification marks.
A bartender is induced, either through
fierce desire TO see Justice done or for some
highly financial reason. to rub superlatively
well the tumblers in which he serves alco-
holic refreshment to said suspicious char
acters.
The finger prints stand out beautifully
at such times. The detectives gather them
in. take them to Police Headquarters, where
thousands of finger prints are classified
according to the most characteristic twists
and turns Of the cuticle and filed under the
most exacting system and, If the person or
persons who have left their marks on the
saloon tumblers have ever made their finger
prints under police auspices the fact will
be proved in a very few minutes The card
index system will tell the story. The po-
lice care nothing about a mans name, but
New-York tribune., 1911-12-10
SENATOR WATSON. OF WEST VIR-
GINA.

TO its violation is made plain than where
the INTERPRETATION of the spirit Of 1t Is lett
to the Judgment Of board or commission
The object of these hearings is TO get the
views of men of ali shades of opinion. with
the thought that some OF the views that
are expressed may be beneficial to the
committee and perhaps to Congress gem
orally.
THE decision of the Supreme Court In
the Standard OIL and American Tobacco
Company cases and the subsequent ac-
tion of the Circuit Court in New York in
reorganizing the Tobacco Trust have rem
dered it very clear that some legislation
should be enacted to relieve the situation
of the uncertainty which these decisions
have created. While IT is clear that the
situation requires dealing with, must con-
fess that 1t IS not by any means clear as
10 what the remedy should be-
The committee that is trying to shape a
"yardstick" that will unerrlngly measure
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SENATOR CUMMINS, OF IOWA.
He advocates a limitation Of the cap'ta'
stock Of corporations.

"embrvo trusts" or actual combinations 10
made nm of eight Republicans ana seven
Democrats. thirteen of the fifteen mem
bers being lawyers. The members
Senators Clapp. Minnesota; Cullom' llnnois'
Nixon. Nevada; Cummins, Iowa Brahue-
gee. Connecticut; oliver, PennsyiVania'
Limit Rhode Island, and Townsend
Michigan. Republicans; Senators Tillman'
South Carolina Foster, louisiana new
lands. Nevada; Clarke. Arkansas; Gore.
oklahoma; Watson, West virginia ana
Pomerene. Ohio, Democrats
The sherman law itself stands as one OF
the NEST perfect pieces Of legislation ever
enacted by the Congress or Parliament or
anv country. With practical unanimity
the men who have thus far appeared pc-
fore the Senate committee conducting the
trust inquiry agree:
do not amend, repeal or in any way
weaken the Sherman law: leave 1t as the
great police power, with which to deal with
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the subsequent prosecution of corpora
ton that outgrew its swaddling clothes
and became a full hedged ''piratical giant
stalking the small business man and de-
stroying free competition.
Senator Clapp of Minnesota. chairman
of the committee now sitting on the trust
problem made for the purpose of this arti-
Gle a concise statement Of the divergence
OF view that exists over this question or
control
Two general plans seem to have been
evolved so far by those who have appeared
before the committee" he said one is
the creation of a commission. which shali
pass upon the organization Of concerns In
tending to engage in interstate commerce
This involves again. two IDEAS one OF
which is that corporations doing interstae
business shall be incorporated by the ied-
eral government under some law when
will prescribe the conditions OF federal In
corporation. This plan, OF course. en-
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wise and coordinate itself with the cor
poratjon through a commission and
charter or license law, is to prescribe oy
law in just as plain and definite terms a'
can be employed the conditions upon Wnich
cornorations can engage in interstate COM
merce. leaving to the law enlorelns
agencies of the government the enforce
ment of the provisions OF the law.
"In other words. without any co-ordlna-
tion by government agencies, simply put
the subject where other subjects are placed
enact your law and then enforce 1t.
"As a legislative proposition. the plan OF
government coordination will be easiest
because the law providing for that would
necessarily leave much 10 the discretion
OF the government board or commission ;
while the other plan would involve inuch
more difficulty In framing the law itseit
ION the other hand. the latter plan mas
the advantage that II is easier TO enforce
the law where the line of demarcatioh Dc
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A GUIDEPOST NEEDED.

1t appears certain that the Sherman law
! Itself will not suffer amendment al the
hands of Congress, If the opinions brought
out I'm the trust inquiry and the opinions
held by many members of the investigating
committee are followed. That statute will
be retained as the instrument for dissOly-
ing in the civil courts the big trusts that
break the law against combinations and
for Furnishing with fines or Imprisonment
their chief promoters and instigators.
Congress is looking for the other path
that leads to business stability and pre-
| lection Of the public interest. II wants to
find a means TO declare legal business safe
from prosecution to point out what corpo-
rations can do without breaking the law;
to lend every ENCOURAGEMENT TO business
development and the exercise Of economical
methods Of making and selling goods, and
at the same time TO prevent monopoly, keep
competition in the world OF trade and give
the young man OF to-day with limited capl-
tai a fair opportunity to enter trade and
commerce
How is IT > be done? The group Of men
who are now studying in the trust school
In Washington are not prepared TO say.
Senator Cummins believes that much good
would be accomplished under a law limit
ing the amount of capital stock Of any
corporation. 80 that no given line OF in
dustry could be dominated by one i'm
mense company, such as the United states
Steel Corporation.
Senator Pomerene is an emphatic adyo-
cate of the more rigorous enforcement OF
the criminal end Of the Sherman law
few trust "magnates" I'm jail, he believes,
would accomplish much toward the break
ing up of combinations
Senator Newlands has placed before the
committee, of which he IS a member bill
to establish a trade commission, a plan
indorsed with various notifications by the
President. the Attorney General and many
students of the trust problem Senator La
Toilette has an important bill for trust
control. defining what form Of corpora
ton action constitutes restraint Of trade"
and removing much Of the uncertainty that
surrounds the enforcement Of the sherman
law in its present form.
Senator Kenyon, VINO was the government
trust buster" up TO the time he entered
the Senate last year. has a comprehensive
bill Ito protect trade and commerce
against unlawful restraints and monopo'
lies" There are numerous other bills. both
in the Senate and the House embody-
ing proposed methods for amending or
strengthening the sherman law all Ok
which are before the Senate committee as
It moves Though the maze oi suggestions.
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Shall We Kill or Curb the Senator Cpps omf
Any One with information or
Practical Suggestions Is
Met with Open Arms
by Conferrees.

the convicted trust, but give US anoyhe,
law 70 prevent the growth Of trusts AMI
70 determine more easily when they exIs,
and how they can be cured
The shermen law declares that eve,v
combination or conspiracy in restraint ~
trade is unlawful. All the trouble that has
grown up over enforcing II in the twenty
wears II has been on the nations law
books is due to tho problem Of determil.
ing lust how far IL reaches Strictly inter.
preted. II reaches into lines OF business
where least expected; and az II has been
NOR. and more rigidly enforced the need
Of supplementary legislation that win moro
clearly define what is legitimate business
and will give the government a stronger
nand I'm reorganzng business end direct.
Ing It along legal lines has become in.
creasingly apparent.
Though the fact is ell-estsblished. II IL
seldom stated hat the Sherman law, cred.
tied TO John sherman, former Senator, se.-
retary of the Treasury and Secretary OF
War is I'm fact the product OF The genius OF
George r. Hoar. Massachusetts's great
Senator. whose intellect was FOR many
wears a dominant force in the shaping Of
legislation I'm the United States John
sherman introduced the first draft Of his
bill 10 prohibit trusts and unlawful comb-
nations December T. 1889, and II became
Senate bill No l. I'm the Dist Congress
Sherman had entered Congress in 1855 and
had been Secretary Of the Treasury for
four years under President Hayes. He
brought to the preparation Of the bill to
prevent trusts and combinations financial
and economic genius that for years before
and after made him a leader In national
affairs.
The Sherman law is declared by Dromi-
nent lawyers who have appeared al the
hearings before Senator Clapp's committee.
now sitting i'm Washington, TO be 'as per-
feet as 4 law can be written; as simple and
clear as the English language can make it,
Would you suggest the amending of the
Sherman lave" Senator Brandegee asked
one prominent man who appeared before
the committee.
II would as soon think OF trying 10
amend the Decalogue," he answered
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4 u Waldo. about which there is great
deal of judcious mystery that must oe
very unsatisfactory 70 professional GRIM
inals Captain Joseph A. Faurot, chief oil
the Criminal identification Bureau, is teach
Ing detectives behind closed doors five days
a week, from to $50 o'clock, how to spot
their man by scientific methods.
The Commissioner will not permit news
paper reporters to be present while the
captain instructs the class. because, the
Commissioner says, most crooks can read,
and he thinks it would be foolish to give
them advance information Of what the de-
tectives are being trained TO do to catch
them. A man may have thin face, fat
face smooth face or near whiskers; 1t VIII
be all the same TO these scientifically
trained detectives. A detective who has
mastered the most recent systems of
identification that are being taught in the
new school will look in general only for
those marks on man that nature has
presented to him at birth.
If the criminal has a right ear with an
! extraordinary lobe, how is he going to
obliterate the fact? He may have a convex
nose or retreating forehead. lie cannot,
ures project. Perhaps he has received for
birthday gift unusually arched eyebrows
| or any one Of a hundred peculiarities about
| the eyes.
The new detective when he gets his
diploma i'm this school, will be able TO dis
cover a latent mole without sextant, dark
| lantern or delay in any of the five
| bOroughs.
And then, you must not overlook the
value Of the finger print Detectives are
being trained in this new school to cult
vate a reverential regard for finger prints.
They must know where TO look for finger
prints: how TO make lurking finger prints
come TO the surface clear and deadly in
their power to convict the guilty manu-
] facturers of them.
No two finger prints are alike. From
| babyhood TO old age they do not change.
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commanding shall be limited TO four years.
when the question OF his reappointment
shall be considered. officers express the
opinion that TO place an officer in the place
OF major general commanding until he
reaches the age of siXty-four is an injus-
tice TO national guard officers and con-
trary 20 what s done in the army.
When Secretary of War StimsOn reviews
Squadron \ I'm its armory next Saturday
night he will not only witness the cere-
mony but will see each troop in a special
drill as well IS the squadron in drill.
There will also he rough riding and an ex-
hib.tiCn by the machine gun detachment.
Colonel Morris Of the 9Th Regiment. after
the review Of his command by General
David +. Austin chief Of coast artillery.
on Thursday night will put the regiment
through an extended drill in the new regu-
lations. Dancing will follow the military
ceremonies.
\ review Of the C9th Regiment by Briga-
der General George Moore Smith, lst
Brigade will be held in the armory on Sat
wday night and dancing will follow Gen
oral Smith is at present III with the grip,
but at last accounts was improving.
Mayor GaynoT has accepted a review of
the 22d Regiment for Wednesday night.
December %. and dance will follow. Com
pany X and the Morningside Athletic club
will hold "A joint SCI OF games and re-
ception in the armory on the night of Feb
ruary 3.
\ mounted detachment is to be organ
lied in the list Regiment. and the men
assigned to it will be considered no longer
members Of the company from which they
are selected. The mounted detachment
VIII be n separate unit OF the regiment.
and its expenses Tor horse hire and mount
ed instruction viii be paid for by the regi-
ment There are many applications for Sc
lection. The portrait I'm oil OF the late
Colonel Wallace \. Downs was unveiled
by Sergeant George B. Youngs In the vet
Grams room of the armory last Monday
night. Sergeant louugs who was a mem
ber OF the portrait committee. served under
Colonel Downs In Cuba Among those wh)
made remarks at the unvening were Gen
eral f. \. McApin. Colonel W. G. Bates
and Major hutchinson Company Il viii
hold a smoke on Friday night.
When the 7th Regiment parades at its
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his finger prints are numbered and even
after death will identify him.
In the event that the barroom evidence
confirms the detectives in their theory,
word is sent to all stations in the city
that such and such a crook is wanted at
headquarters Before night that unsus-
pcous criminal will most probably be ap-
pretended His haunts are pretty well
known. Some policeman in the department
will almost always have special informa-
tion concerning that chaps habits. the fact
that his finger prints are on file at head
quarters proving him TO be a man with a
past. This system of identification is now
being used with marked success.
Errors can creep into the Bertillon sys-
TEN because there the personal equation
enters. one man will make his measure
ments OF a criminal a little tighter than
another. for instance But where two clear
finger prints are brought into comparison
there is believed to be no margin for error
I'm identification. The system is inexpensive,
all that is required being printers ink,
paper and a rubber roller.
Twenty-four detectives are now being
trained at the new school. They will be
graduated when they have got their man
that is. they will be told how to identify
persons by means Of some unusual feature
Of mans physical characteristics. Is the
lobe Of the ear square or round and does
it include among its other rather mild
overtures for notice pronounced tendency
to slope? The base Of the nose-hOw about
that? Is il horizontal? Who ever notes
the peculiarities OF the base Of his own
nose let alone the foundation Of the nose
of another man. These new detectives
may, however. be able to. identify their
crook who has an international reputation
for slick operations solely because that par
ticuar point Of his facial scenery has de-
Veloped an unusual tendency toward eleva-
tiOn or a marked facility at being unlike
its owner, straight.
When a student at this new detective
school is able to capture his man by fol-
lowing some such seemingly slender clew
he will be declared by Captain Faurot
ready to pursue the profession Of detect
ing. OF course it all depends on the stu
dent. but Captain Faurot believes the sys-
TEN can be mastered by most detectives In
twenty-five lessons.
Lectures based on experience VIII be de-
liyered To the class every little while by
such men as cX-Polce Commissioner Me-
Adoo Second Deputy George ;. DougEerty
Inspector GeorGe w McClusky, Inspector
Edward r. Hughes. Inspector Cornelius
Cohalane and Captain James Dunn.
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! April review in the armory it will probably
appear in new hcaddress instead of the
present shake. which is known as an un-
comfortable and poorly balanced head
piece. The new headdress is the one first
worn by tire regiment 80 long ago as l&L
and is similar to the hat now worn By
the West Point cadets. The hat is made
of black felt. stands about five inches high.
is a little wider at the top than al the base
and is we'll balanced and comfortable on
the head 1t will have a leather visor. POM
pom and ornament. The hat was discarded
for the present shake about 1855
Two new second leutenants have been
appointed in the ID Battalion Of Field Ar
tillery by Major John +. Organ. They
are Sergeant Kenneth S. Ferguson. from
Company l. OF the eth Regiment VINO
served i'm South Africa during thu Boef
war with the British army. and was also
I'm Manchuria during the Russo-JapaneS
War. The other officer is Robert ID. Mis-
formerly a sergeant I'm Squadron A.
Major c. !. De Bevolse. OF squadron T.
las received with regret the resignation
of Captain George = Morgan. of Troop l.
on account OF business He was ono Of tne
charter members OF Troop c. from when
the squadron was formed.
a review OF the i7th Regiment BY Ms)F
General Charles f. Roe commanding thc
national guard. will be held on the niSn'
OF January 10.
Preparations are making in the 25d kes'
ment for the celebration OF the htteth y"
niversary OF the organization of the req
ment. which began on January % S,
when the first company tA was muste'''
into the United States service. and Oe"
eral Joseph q. story at present serNl'9
in the adjutant generals department wa
the first man TO be mustered I'm. The 'e'
hration will be held I'm the armory on '"'
nights of January 10 and 20 ON fr'u'
January 10. there will be a review and oa'''
and on the night OF January % there WI
be a dinner I'm honor Of the veterans. Ae
tenant Carl j. Rasmus is the chairman =,
the committee in charge. Company W.
hold an election for a second lieutenant -
Wednesday. night. There are several ca"
didates. and a lively contest Is pronhs'"
General George Moore Smith will re'"'
the Sth Regiment on December -
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NEED SUPPLEMENTARY LAWS.

II has been strong enough 10 DIedh tHV
STANDARD Oil and the American Tobacco
companies TO fierce a reorganization OF the
international Harvester Company and the
QJuiued states Steel Corporation and TO
rxfve promise Of change in the methods OF
nsany Of the other greatest combinations
Of capital The trouble is not with the
sherman law. but with the lack Of legis-
lation TO back up that law.
Is There any legitimate form Of combina-
lion that the government should recognize
and permit? If so. how shall It be safe
guarded and regulated? are questions the
ycommntee wants answered.
Cannot some law be made that will per-
NIT corporations 10 know. without the ter
rors of an antitrust suit, whether or not
they are within the law in extending and
developing their commerce among the diff
Serent states? The committee wants ad-
vice on this, and is getting it from many
quarters.
Shall the government work with the cor
poraaions, through a trade commission? or
shall IT Law down certain laws tell the cor
.porafions TO toe the mark and then go
after them with tha Sherman law when
they fail to do so? There is apparently a
clean division between these two PROPOSE
tions. The committee itself is divided on
the subject but it's members are not more
uncertain than the witnesses who appear
10 state their views Of needed trust legis-
lation Samuel Uutermyer urged trade
commission that should pass upon the char
Iers Of the corporations prescribe the con-
ditions they must meet and see to it that
they did not secure a monopoly, but that
should give them the opportunity 10 make
.1imited trade agreements"
Enforce the antitrust law against them
until they face ruin; then give them the
right to make agreements that will enable
them to do a fairly profitable business,
was the substance of Mr. Untermyer's sug-
gestion.
Opposed to this is the belief that the
government should not thus allow itself TO
DE drawn into a situation where it would,
sn fact, be party 10 the organization of
corporations and where it might hamper
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ing powder over everything that might
have been impressed by the criminals nm-
BILE fingers and have uncovered no finger
prints But the detectives. we will say,
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The last legal obstacle TO the construc-
ton Of series Of subways IN this city was
removed when the court few days ago
held the ordinance under which the first
tunnel Is TO be built is legal The way is
now cleared for construction work. The
first tunnel will be cut under Stockton
New-York tribune., 1911-12-10

Although there has been some comment
over the delay in the announcement Of the
general plan for the exposition. criticism
was to some extent disarmed when il was
shown, during the stay Of the New York
State delegation here that an enormous
amount of work had been done by engi-
neers In preparation Of the plans. owing
to the great extent Of the site chosen for
the exposition it was found necessary TO
make many tentative plans before the Sc
lection Of final working designs The New
Workers. were shown nifty complete sets of
tentative designs. covering as many ar
rangements Of buildings and grounds The
final selection OF working plans viii be
made within few weeks, 1t Is said.