Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-24
Personnel of the Philippine Commits
sion Practically Complete.
AN ENGRAVING OF TIE PRESIDENT
A Long Conference With Mr.. DOL
liver This Morning.
OTHER CALLERS TO-DAY

Tine fifth member of the new Philippine
commission will in all probability be Ber-
nard Mascs of Berkeley. Cal. professor of
political economy in the University of CALI
fornia since 1S16 as intin.ated In The Star
yesterday lie has been summoned here
to confer with the President. Unless there
is a change in the program the commission
Will consist of Judge William II. Taft of
Ohio. Professor Dean c. Worcester of
Michigan. Gen. Luke L. Wright of Tennes-
see. Judge Henry &. ldc OF Vermont and
Professor Bernard Moses of California.
Every section of the country is thus rep
resented
Judge Ide arrived in Washington yes;er-
day and had conference with the Pre~i-
dent in The afternoon. He is graduate Of
Oar; mouth, a lawyer, and ffty-six years
old. He was member of the Vermont
stale senate from 1882 to 1888. went to the
republican rational convention as a dele
gate in 1sSS, was Il commissioner to Samoa
in 1881, and later chief justice of Samoa
Gen. Wright arrived in Washington today
and went at once to the White House. Pro-
fessor ]. b. Thayer II Massachusetts, who
was offered 4 place ON The commission. but
declined, was at the White House this
morning with Secretary Long. Professor
Thayer thanked the President for the
proffered honor.
After his conference with the President.
beileral wright sdlu tIldl ne hdu petH Ntl-
dered a place the commission and mad
accepted
Ex-Representative James Hamilton Lewis,
whose name was also mentioned In con-
nection with the commission. also talked
with the President this morning. His views
are too radically in opposition to those of
the President to allow him to 60 on the
commission.
Engraving of the President.
The bureau of engraving and printing
some time ago completed the official en-
craving of President Mckinley, which will
become part of the government archives.
The engraving is in vignette style, the
same as those of the twenty-three other
Presidents whose faces are hanging in one
Executive Mansion. The ylguette Is, OF
course, from the hest photograph of the
President to he found in the United States
Before beginning work on the engraving
the officials of the bureau sent to every city
in the United States where photographs OF
the President had been made and secured
/ copies, thus getting a large lot 10 select
| from.
In many years to come, after the Presl-
dent has gone to his reward. this visuetts
will be used on the securities Of his coun-
try. Under the laws of the United St2tes
the likeness of living man can not be
placed on a security
Some Of the Many Callers.
and large number were seen by the Pres
ident. A larger number would have talked
with him but for an extended conference
with Representative Dolliver of the ways
and means committee of the House. Mr.
Doliver was with the President fully an
hour. The presumption Is that the confer
ence related to the Porto Rican tariff bill
now before the House.
Representative Mudd of Maryland made
a request for the appointment of VIM L.
Marcy of Annapolis to a lieutenancy in the
army. The President has the matter under
consideration.
Representative Hemenway saw the Pres
ident to ask the appointment of James B.
Gamble of Princetown, Ind, as collector Of
customs at Sitka- Alaska, vice Ivey.
Senator Beveridge talked with the Presi-
dent for some time. Mrs. Beveridge. who
was seriously i'll, is in Asheville, n. c., and
is thought to be improving.
Senator Mcbride presented Judge North
cut Of Colorado, and also talked with the
President about The new Philippine COM
mission. Senator Butler Of North Carolina
likewise referred To this commission in a
talk with the President. urging the appont-
ment of Frank Osborne of North Carolina.
ter, Shoup, Spooner, Turley and Wolcott,
Representatives Sherman. Hill, Shepherd of
Texas. Griggs of Georgia, briggs of New
York. Boskett of Nebraska, and Bower
sock of Kansas.