The Washington times., 1901-11-19
HENDERSON TALKS
WITH PRESIDENT.
NATIONAL ISSUES DISCUSSED.
MIR. Roosevelt and the Speaker in
Thorough Accord on Congress
sionaI observation-disclosures
in Reciprocity.


the President and Speaker Henderson.
The forceful Iowan who will WELD the
gayel in the House of Representatives of
/ the Fifty-seventh Congress was in con-
ference with the President in all fully
six hours. He was a guest at luncheon.
! After the report he was closeted with
the President so long that the latter was
> late in departing for the long horseback
( ride he seldom fails to take after the
{ days work. The Speaker returned late in
the evening, and the conference with the
President was renewed.
There are few subjects of legislation at
the coming session of Congress which
We're not talked over at length by the
President and Speaker Henderson. The
TIVE are in accord upon most of the pend
ing issues President Rooseyelt's inten-
ton to follow the policy outlined by Pres
ident Mckinley finds favor with the chief
Of the Iowa delegation. He was in thor
ough sympathy with most points of the
! Mckinley administration. quite in contrast
/ with the strained relations between Speak
er Reed and Mr. Mckinley.
The Presidents message to Congress
came in for share of discussion. as a
matter of course, the President telling
the Speaker what he proposed TO say and
to recommend on certain subjects.
Visitors Discuss Reciprocity
Reciprocity was the word most often
in the mouth of a large number of people
who called on the President yesterday
Not all of them discussed that question
with the President, but most of them
! had something to say about 1t before
they left the White House
James Deering of Chicago, the head of
the great harvesting machine company;
\. B. Farquhar. of York. Pa. and W. c.
Barker, of New York, all members of the
National Association of Implement and
Vehicle Dealers. and delegates to the
Reciprocity Convention. were among the
first callers. They went full tilt at the
President on the question of reciprocity,
with the establishment Of which they are
in thorough accord.
Said Mr.. Barker, a personal friend of
the President: For six years the ten
dency Of the Republican party has been
toward reciprocity. To let the approach
ing session of Congress pass by without
action in that direction would be retro
gression. We think at least one treaty
should be ratified. in order to establish
a precedent for similar legislation after
ward
J. Sloat Fassett, whom David 3. Hill
defeated in 1880 for Governor OF New
York. expressed himself: Between the
sarcasm of Senator Hale and the enthusi-
asm of my friend Kasson, there should be
some middle ground upon which the coun-
try can stand"
That there would be nothing done in
regard to the establishment of CONNER
cial relations at the coming session of
Congress was the opinion of Representa-
tive Dalzell Of Pennsylvania.
We don't want the kind OF reciprocity
which will throw our doors open to com
petitors and give US nothing in return
said Representative Roberts OF Massachu-
sets. representative Roberts, in the in
tereEts of the shoe manufacturing indus
Try of Massachusetts wants the duty re-
moved on hides which now finds a place
in the tariff schedule.
4 auadrcnninI Visitor.
One of the notable visitors at the White
House yesterday was Judge Edward Ian
der. Of this city. who has seen every
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tion OF William Henry Harrison and Polk f!
Many of them Judge Lander has known
intimately. He is graduate Of Harvard, /
and on this ground. as well as others. the /
President expressed great pleasure at
meeting him. /
Judge Lander. who is president OF the !
Harvard Club makes it a
practice to visit at the White House every
new President soon after he is inaugu-
rated. President Jackson received an
honorary degree from Harvard when Judge
Lander a freshman the frank ~
Hackett, Assistant - ..relary OF the
Navy. present -iie Judge.
Fadari~- -yegetau, Resident Commits
sioner of Porto Rico at the National Cap
ital talked with the President about the
OF the civil service regulations
to the insular government. He does not
think that the plans outlined are quite
applicable to existing conditions. Mr..
Degetau will have another conference |
with the President on this subject.
Good Wishes From Austrin.
Baron Hengelmuller the Ambassador
rom AUSTRIA Hungary. was received by
President Roosevelt yesterday morning
IA the Blue Parlor at the White House.
He extended the greetings and wishes for
national prosperity with which he was
'ntrusted before he left Vienna, where
ne spent the summer. to return to this
'ountry.
Baron Hengelmuller says that there is
10 effort in austria Hungary to establish
commercial treaty relations with this
Government. Preferring to await the out
ONE of pending reciprocity treaties be-
ween this and other countries. especially
$ she is now engaged in the revision of
Ter own customs duties