The Washington times., 1901-10-15
GUESTS OF TILE PRESIDENT
Senator's Lodge and Frye at Lunch
With Mr.. Roosevelt.
DccJiue to Discuss the Conference
Supreme Court Justices Pay Their
Annual Visit of Respect - To
Organize Labor in Porto Rico.

| senator Frye. President pro TEN. of the
Senate. held a long conference with the
President yesterday. He put in an ap-
| pearance at the White House shortly al
| ter II o'clock. with Senator Lodge who.
| it is expected. will be the mouthpiece OF
the Administration in the upper house
| at the next session of Congress. Senator
| FRYE was the President guest at lunch-
CON When he departed. after O'CLOCK
| he declined. with chart cteristic reticence'
to make any statement relative to the
! matters he had discussed with Mr.. Roose-
| veit Senator Lodge remarked that he
was merely a guest at luncheon, and that
| no political matters were touched upon.
When questioned about the new ship
| ping bill, which he is accredited with
| having drawn up as a result of confer
ence in Maine with Senator Hanna some
time ago, Mr. Frye did not disclose any
very definite information. He intimated
| that he had not yet prepared the bill 1t
| is evident that he intends the bill to pass.
| for he stated that several of the drastic
points which caused its defeat last year
would, to a certain extent, be eliminated
! in the draft he is to prepare. This elimi-
nation, he said, would rather cripple the
| effect of the bill when it becomes a law.
The Justices of the Supreme Court of
| the United States were received by Presi-
dent Roosevelt at 12:3O o'clock. Immedi-
ately upon the adjournment OF that
| tribunal, opened only short hour before,
| the Justices entered carriages and
were driven to the White House. There
| they were received in the Blue Parlor by
| President Roosevelt. After the usual
| formalities the Justices departed.
! Secretary Long called at the White
House in company with Rear Admiral
Robley d. Evans. U. S. N; William f.
| Slocum and Col. G. a. Goodale, u. S A
| Admiral Evans departed last night for
San Francisco. where he will sail on the
transport Solace for Samoa. He has been
detailed to court-martial duty there and
will preside over the court which will
probably try Capt. B. f. TiIley on charges
| preferred against him. Colonel Goodale is
the commanding officer of the Seventeenth
Infantry, and is soon to be retired. His
| friends are desirous that he be made a
brigadier general before that time.
The trades labor organizer is to invade
the island of Porto Rico. Samuel Comp
| ers, President of the American Federation
of Labor. yesterday presented Santiago
Iglesias to the President. Mr.. lglesias
will soon depart for Porto Rico for the
purpose of organizing the laboring classes
| on the same principle as in the United
States. Mr.. Gompers desir> I'd that assur-
| ance be given that Mr.. Iglesias would not
/ in any way be interfered with in his work.
| President Roosevelt remarked that he
was in fun sympathy with rational labor
| organization, and assured Mr.. Gompers
that the representative of the Federation
would not be hindered. Mr.. Iglesias was
a prominent figure in the island during
| the Spanish domination, and was politi-
cal prisoner when the American troops
| occupied San Juan.
Some time ago the President asked Mr.
Gompers to supply him with data re-
specting the Chinese Exclusion Act. which
! terr-sitlatrs by limitation next year Mr.
lGompers has not yet prepared these data,
but will soon do so, and will submit them
to Mr.. Roosevelt AS the official represen-
tatfye of the American Federation of
Labor. he desires the extension of the
exclusion. The laboring classes as a
whole are generally interested in the
! eight. hour day labor bill which has been
/ introduced in Congress.
| The appointment of ex-Gov. Thomas
Goode Jones, of Alabama, to the Federal
bench in that State has greatly pleased
/ the leaders of the negro race. Bishop
Abraham Grant, of the African Methodist
| Episcopal Church. called on President
Roosevelt yesterday, and commended in
the highest terms the selection of ex-Gov-
ernor Jones. He told the President that
Jones had expressed himself in stronger
| terms against lynching and mob law in
the South than had ever any President
Mr.. Roosevelt assured the Bishop that
Jones' attitude on this subject was fac
pointed. Bishop Grant wants President
Roosevelt to conferFwith several of the
leading men of the colored race before he
decides on any policy which Will affect
that people. The President thinks well
of the suggestion. The Rev. D. G. Hill,
pastor of the African Methodist Episcopal
Church, of this city. accompanied Bishop
Grant to the White House.
H Clay Evans, whom the President has
said he will not remove from the position
of Commissioner of Pensions while he Is
under fire, called at the White House yes
terday, but smilingly asserted that his
business had only to do with department
tai affairs. 1t Is more than probable that
Mr.. Evans will be retained for some time,
President Mckinley had decided to make
a change. Israel w. Stone. commander
of the Department of the Potomac. Grand
Army of the Republic, Is authority for
I
rendered the position OF Commissioner of
Pensions TO ex-Representative Peters, of
Kansas, on September !. Peters, he as
! serts. was unable TO accept IL at that
! time, because he was unable to get his
business affairs in shape soon enough TO
assume the duties of the office on that
date as desired by the late President 1t
| is understood that the matter was al
| lowed to lapse with the understanding
| that Peters was to get the position later
Mr.. Evans had scarcely left the White
| House Yesterday before Judge Ell Tor
renee. of Minnesota, the new Commander
| in Chief of the Grand Army of the Repuk-
lic,saw the President The two had fairly
long chat together. Judge Terrence stat
ed that the ComnlissiCnership Of Pensions
had been touched upon only casually He
said that he had visited MIR. Evans at the
Pension Office, and was not ready to make
any move in regard to this office. Judge
Terrence left Washington for Minnesota
last night 1t is his intention 20 return
to Washington some time in November.
The consideration of a bill which will
make :ilycr certificates red Aemabl,, i'm
gold is ngaginS the attention OF Rep
reFentative Overstreet, of Indiana. 1t was
presented at the last session of Congress,
but was not acted upon. Mr.. Overstreet
| Is confident of its passage during the COM
ing winter. Representative Overstreet
called at the White House and introduced
Representative Holiday. also of Indiana
who has yet TO serve his flrst session in
| Congress.
The younger element OF the Republican
party in Alabama is becoming quite
a65t a6e5titve, 4 number of young men from
tiiaI 5tate' "liY ore closely identified with
IT'S politics, and who are in sympathy with
the Presidents policy toward fhe eorth
have undertaken the formation of a vot,na
men Republican club in that State with
headquarters in Alabama. Prominent in
the movement are ]. o. Thoinpsnp Of
Iushegee: w. F. Tibbetts, Of Mobile ana
Charles Scott one of the weaIthiest men
In the state. II is expected that the or