Evening star., 1901-10-16

been received at the White House The
volume contains the hymns, addresses and
prayers which made UP the program of the
service. together with a. handsome engrav-
ing of the nave of the cathedral
Chief of Police Sylvester introduced to
the President the board of governors of the
national bureau of criminal identification.
which Is in session in this city.
Representative Call.
Representatives Mirfor and Often of Wis
consin and Representatives Rucker and
Floyd of Missouri saw the President. Mr.
Floyd says that. either Ex-Governor Francis
or Governor Dockery would make good
presi~enttal timber for the democrats in
1904. They are both strong and able men,
Mr.. Floyd said
NJ. B. Macfarland collector of the port
at Tampa, talked with the President about
Florida appointments.
Quentin Roosevelt, aged four the baby
of the presidential family, and Archie. aged
seven, will arrive in Washington this after
noon With the exception of Miss Alice,
the eldest child of the family, all the chill
dren will be in the White House tonight
Miss Alice will come with her father when
he returns from the east next week Archi-
bald will enter the Force public school as
a student. Quentin is too young for school
Pardons by the President.
President Roosevelt today granted par
dons in six cases and denied five applica-
tions presented by petitioners for executive
clemency.
Eliza Chapman, James Wainwright and
Andrew ]. Winters, who were sentenced
April 49, 1901, at Nashville, Tenn, each to
serve year and ten days in prison for a
pension fraud are pardoned upon recon-
mendation of the district attorney who
prosecuted them so that their sentences
will expire on November 1 of the present
year. The prisoners are all negroes, woe
IA q nd arnI11 Nd
ing to the testimony at the trial were i'm
posed upon by man named Braden, who
was the chief beneficiary of the fraud. The
Chapman woman is nearly ninety years
old and Winters is Seventy-siX
Dancing Frank Dorsey, who was SEN
fenced in the District courts to a three
year term in the West Virginia peniten-
tiary in May Of the present year for COM
picity in two burglaries, is ordered sert
to the District of Columbia reform school
until he is twenty-one. The President
grants Dorsey's pardon or communication
on account Of his youth. The petition for
executive clemency was signed by Rev:
Charles F. Sontag of the Grace Episcopal
Church and a number of other citizens of
the District
Frank Smackum, coloIed boy, who is
now serving sentence of $50 days i'm
priSOnment for robbing students at the
Georgetown College, is pardoned by the
President in order that he may not become
hardened criminal by associating with
older malefa ctorS during the full length OF
his term Smackum was employed as jan
itor at the college. and falling into bad
company stole small articles from the stu
dents rooms Before his conviction he
made restitution in several cases.
Upon recommendation of the Attorney
General the President has pardoned John
Harris, a Kentucky perjurer, who served
out two years term in the Indiana peni-
tentiary, in order that his civil rights be
restored 10 him. Since Harris release from
the penitentiary he has been sober indus
trious and honest.
Felix Osborne. who is now serving a five
year term in the Fort Leavenworth prison
for stealing horse in the Indian terri
tory in 1880, is pardoned so that his SEN
tence will expire on December 1, the pres
ent year. The prisoner belongs to a good
family. is only nineteen and was the At
torney General believes, led astray by evil
companions
Judge John r. Thomas of the Indian ter
ritory, who sentenced Elder Joyce to five
years Imprisonment in April, 1899, for TAX
ing horse that belonged to some one else
recommends that he be pardoned at the
end of three years in order that he may
begin life anew The President and the
Attorney General also believe that Glenn
ency should be exercised in Joyce's behalf
SO the order has been made in accordance
with Judge Thomas recommendation.