New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-27
WHITMAN FAV0RS
A STATE POLICE
Pennsylvania COnstabu-
larry Model of Bill Soon
To Be Introduced.
RURAL COMMUNITIES,
NOT CITIES, IN PLAN
Governor Says 1t Could Take
Over Duties of Fire Patrol
and Game WardenS.
From a stan Correspondent Of The Tribune.

from a stan Correspondent OF The Tubunel
Albany, Jan. PA bill creating q
state constabulary similar to Pennsyl-
vania's will be introduced in the Legis-
lature soon. Governor Whitman to-
night declared he was in favor Of the
proposition and that the problem of
creating such a body resolved itself
into q question OF obtaining the neces-
sary funds.
This statement of the Governor was
made after conference with Oswald
G. Willard, Thaddeus c. Sweet, Speaker
of the Assembly, and Harold j. Hin
man. majority leader OF the lower
House.
II will cost s45O.OOO 20 put the plan
in operation, and the Governor said ne
believed 100000 of this could be OBJ
tanned by abolishing the present sys-
TEN of fire patrol and game wardens,
which consumes this amount annually,
and assigning to the proposed state
constabulary the duties now performed
by the game wardens and the members
Of the fire patrol.
Mr.. Willard explained that s450,00O
would enable two companies, consist
ing of l19 men and officers each. TO
continue for a year, and provide uni
forms, barracks and equipment, IN
Guiding horses.
There is no intention" said the
Governor. "of having the state con-
stabulary supplant the police Of cities.
II is intended purely for the rural
communities. many of which are now
without adequate police protection
Mr.. Willard said that it was planned
to take the present aqueduct police,
consisting of little more than nun
dred. as the nucleus of the proposed
constabulary.
an a short time they would not only
Justify their existence but would pay
for themselves" said Mr.. Willard. I'm
Buffalo during the recent strike the
state militia that was called out cost
the county $4,000 and failed entirely
TO cope with the situation. This is not
the fault of the militia, for they are
not trained to police duty.
Take the recent trouble over IN
Roosevelt. n. J. That has caused the
entire state to revolt against the pres
eni methods. which permit the armlng
of irresponsible men and calling them
deputv sherifrs. We cannot have work
lnRmtn SNOl DtNdurt my az "'NN' N'''0
their rights to strike against conditions
under which they labor These deputy
sherifrs, experience has shown, are too
quick with the trigger, and the same is
true of miltamen.
an Pennsylvania, since the state
constabulary was created, there has
been only one occasion in which the
militia has been called out. On that
occasion girls took the rifles away from
the citizen soldiers. Previous to the
state constabulary's entrance into the
field the militia was called out fire.
quently. costing the state hundreds OF
thousands of dollars annually. In one
year. during the Homestead riots, the
entire division was called out-some
nine thousand men"
The bill providing for the state con-
stabulary here provides for four COM
panies. consisting of Ats privates and
company to begin with
and one to be added each year for
three years.
The first company is 10 be loclted
south OF Albany, probably with head
quarters in Westchester County, and
the second north of the capital. OF the
other two. one will be placed in Buff /
falo and the other elsewhere upstate