Evening star., 1899-06-13
Peace Jubilee Committee Received BY
the President.
PRESENTED With 4 FINE SOUVENIR
Manila Adyices Discussed by the
Cabinet.
THE TRIP TO THE WEST

committee from the national peace
jubilee. consisting of F. K Raymond,
chairman of the general committee; Barry
BulkIey, secretary; DR.. F. V. Brooks and
o. J. Ricketts,, called at the White House
this morning for the purpose of presenting
to the President an elaborately framed
souvenir OF the peace jubilee. The souve-
mir, the design of a Philadelphia firm, is
finished in the most elaborate style, and Is
reproduction of the official souvenir that
was displayed in various places in Wash
ington during the jubilee. At the top are
the coats-of-arms of the United States and
Spain; on the left a representation of the
charge up San Juan Hill; on the right the
battle ship Oregon; fu the center the Cap
itol; at the lower left end a portrait of the
President; at the right that of Admiral
Dewey while separating the two is the
hnal meeting OF the peace commissioners
in Paris.
Mr. Buckley made a brief speech of pre-
sentation. to which the President answer
ed that he would keep the souvenir as a
men hlennento of the peace jubilee, which he un-
nesltatlngly characterized as a conspic-
uous success He warmly congratulated
the committee in charge of the Jubilee and
emphasized his statement by saying that
each ana every feature of the jubilee pro-
mat ne mad greatly enjoyed all that he had
witnessed e -NN
The Presidents Western Trim.
Inc PRESIDENT has not yet come to anv
determination about his iong-taiked of
western trip. He said to one of his callers
tooay that he could not now say when he
would start west or how far he would go.
Inc Pacific coast people continue to flood
lhe President with invitations, and from
ds daers western state there is the keenest
ueslre TO see the President. 1t Is now Thought
tnat a grand review of the Philippine troops
Wou1d nave been held at San Francisco had
ehe PRESIDENT not promised to do this at
81. FauI. An OF the returning Philippine
troops could have easily been gotten to-
gether at San Francisco, but there is much
uouot whether larger number of them
can be secured at St. Paul. If the Presi-
nsns r,rnb walts long before starting west he will
pfopdoiy not go further than st. Paul.
Some White House Callers.
Senator Carter was at the White House
To-Day to Introduce his new colleague from
Montana, Senator Clark The latter will
go 10 Charlottesville, Va, tomorrow to wit
ness the graduation exercises of the Uni
among the graduates.
Representative Sulloway saw the Presi-
dent about consulshfp he desires to have
constituent fill
The Cabinet Discusses the Situation.
The cabinet was in session fifty minutes
today, record breaker in point of time
consumed. No business was transacted
and the most of the time was taken in the
reading Of press dispatches from Manila.
showing that there had again been heavy
hghtlng south of the city, and that Gen.
Luna had been assassinated
Some of the cabinet members who have
been sure that the fighting was nearing an
END do not express themselves as so certain
now In fact they decline to comment on
the situation. Heretofore they have been
sangu1ne that the rebellion was being
crushed out, and said so on many oeca-
sions.
A foung Mans Sentence Lightened.
President Mckinley has commuted the
sentence Of Daniel c. Brown, jr. young
man convicted at Marblehead, Mass, of
tampering with the mails, and sentenced on
September %. 1897. to three and a half
years in the state reform school, Brown
was assistant postmaster at Marblehead
The President has commuted the sentence
to two years, so that Brown will be set
free on September % of this year.