The Washington times., 1901-10-10
PREPARING HIS MESSAGE.
The President Engaged in Tran
scribing Matters of Minor Import.
tn He Terse But Exhaustive Doc
ument-MiIIers wait Upon Mr.
ooseNeit-CompIuin of Discrimt-
pntiur Rates for Export Flour.


President Roosevelt has begun the
! preparation of his message to Congress
/ He is now taking up certain atfalrs upon
which he has gained sufficient Information
J to form definite views. The iohEth ol
/ the message is as yet uncertain, hut Is
understood that it is not the President
I intention to make ii very lengthy. As ne
| laughingly said to a Representative VINO
| called upon him yesterday, ne 'doesh
/ care to weary the people with a long
/ message
| As MIR. Roosevelt is concise and prac-
( ticed writer. it is to be expected that ne
will express his views exhaustively, but
tersely The subjects upon which he Is
now engaged are by 10 means those of the
greatest Importance Affairs in which
conditions will scarcely change between
! row and the opening of Congress, and
which if now prepared will be practically
out of the way. are those with which ne
is dealing.
Subjects of graver moment, the CUBAN
election law. reciprocity and reciprocity
treaties. the Nicaragua canal and the
trans-Pacific cable will not be taken up
until they have been thoroughly discussed
in Cabinet meetings. As four members of
the Cabinet have been absent from Wash
ington for some time. and will not re-
turn for perhaps a fortnight these topics
have not, with the exception of the cable
matter, been touched on in even general
way.
In the preparation of his message Mr..
Roosevelt will be assisted by William
Loeb, jr., Assistant Secretary to the
| President, and who is Acting Secretary
during Secretary Courtelyous absence at
Canton.
Millers throughout the country will
make a determined effort to end, what
they consider discrimination against flour
producers on the part of the railroads
delegation of prominent representatives
of the milling industry called on the
President yesterday and urged upon him
the necessity of legislation which would
prohibit the apparently unfair practices.
The trouble as explained by NJ. II.
Davis, of the Winter Wheat Millers' AS
sociation. is that the railroads now charge
nearly 10 cents less per hundre dweight
to carry wheat in the raw to the sea-
board for export than they do to carry
flour for export the same distance. This,
Of course, affects seriously the ability of
of American-made flour to compete in
foreign markets on an equal basis with
flour manufactured in foreign countries
from American wheat
The millers think that the Interstate
Commerce Commission should have au-
thority to remedy the existing unsatis-
factory condition of affairs. President
Roosevelt may make mention of the sub
Ject in his message to Congress He
promised the millers yesterday that he
would give the matter careful considera-
tion. The millers are all earnest advo-
Gates of the Culom bin. introduced at
the last session of Congress, which. they
say, will prove great boon for them
The delegation was presented to the
President by Representative Dick, of
Ohio. 1t consisted Of NJ H. Davis, Of
Shelby, Ohio, of the Winter Wheat Mil
lers Association: c. H Seibt. of the St.
Louis Millers' Association and Of the Iii
nois State Millers' Association, and E.
r Bacon, of Milwaukee, the President of
the League Of National Associations
which has innumerable connections with
the milling industry.
Senators Mason and CullOm Of Illinois
called together at the White House and
saw the President for half an hour yes
terday. They presented so strong a rec
ommendation for the appointment of J. H.
Shirley, Chicago railroad man. for the
position of Consul at Cardiff, Wales. that
ne VIII probably get the place. Reciproci-
ty was afterward the subject of discus
sion. Senator Cullom is thoroughly ia
lmiliar with this question and Will doubt
less be prominently Identified with the dis
cussions of the subject in the Senate at
the coming session.
Senator Mason is most optimistic re-
garding the Senatorial contest in Hi
noiS. in which he and Charles g. Dawes
eX-Comptroller Of the Currency, are now
the two prominent aspirants 1t is
thought that Senator Masons visit to
Washington and his calls upon the Presi-
dent within the last day or so are for
the purpose Of feeling his ground with the
Administration. The good will of Presi-
dent Roosevelt is considered a most val
liable acquisitio. by politicians mixed up
in the Senatorial scramble IN Chicago.
The coming Sena tOrial election is what
is termed the Chicago election" il be-
ing the custom in Illinois to choose one
Senator from the city and one from the
State at large. When President Roosevelt
visited Chicago on his last Western trip
he showed no particular sympathy for
one faction Of the Republican party more
than another.
Representative Hull Of Iowa. Chairman
of the Committee on Military Affairs, had
rather a long chat with the President
yesterday. He thinks that General Chat
fee viii pursue a perfectly safe course
in any clash between military and civil
authority which may occur in the Phil
ippines Representative Hull spent last
summer IN the archipelago ana was with
General Chaftee a large part Of the time.
Naturally his visit with the President
was consumed in discussing Representa-
: q
alent In the islands. Mr. Hull is most
faVOrably impre ssed With the new Presi-
dent and anticipates d 1ighly successful
Administration. In the course Of their
conversation the President intimated that
his message to Congress would not be
specially long.
E. II. Deas, the negro leader of the old
line Republicans in South Carolina, who
were rather set back by the appointment
of John G. Capers, a comparatively new
Republican, as member of the Repub-
lican National Committee called upon the
President yesterday to urge the appoint
ment of Loom!s BlalOCk as collector of
Internal revenue In South Carolina. The
President did not bind himself to make
the appointment, but IT Is understood he
assured Mr.. Deas and A. a. Gates, who
accompanied Mr.. Capers. that the old Re
publican party of South Carolina would
not be neglected
Judge William l.. Chambers. who was
a candidate for the position Of Federal
Judge of the northern and middle districts
OF Alabama. and Ex-Governor Oates, of
that State, both expressed the highest sat
isfaction with the appointment of eX-GOv.
Thomas Goode Jones to that bench.
Judge Chambers felt assured that the in
auguration of President Roosevelt,s $ new
policy would bring to the front in the
South more than ever before the indie
pCnde mt Democrat and would rclCgate TO
Oblivion the hide-bound anti -administra-
ZIONIST of that ilk. Ex-Governor Oates eX-
pressed the opinion that while Republi-
cans in Alabama might be bit disgruntled
/ at the appointment Of one of the opposite
faith. they could not but admit the ability
of Judge Jones. Judge Jones has declined
to turn out number of Republican en-
ployes of the District Court upon his ac-
cession to that office.
Eliodoro Infante. the Chilean Charge
d'Anaires. accompanied by Mr. Adee. As
sistant Secretary of State, called upon
President Roosevelt to present two of his
countrymen. Agusto Matte and A Blest
Cana who are on a visit TO this country.
They are attached to the Chilean I.ega-