Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-02-08

dition of Theodore Roosevelt, jr., was given
! out at the White House at noon today:
The condition of the Presidents son is
favorable. The doctors say that the Presi-
dent should not go to Charleston, as at
any time within six days the disease may
take a sudden turn for the worse; and the
president is asked not to come to Groton.
as his visit might excite the boy, who is not
In Immediate danger
A number of kilograms were received by
the President from Groton during the
morning. They were all of an encoura ging
nature, and the President responded hope
fuily to the many inquiries made by per-
sonai friends directly and by wire After
visitors.
The statement of the bulletin that the
PRESIDENT Will not go to Charleston next
week was fully expected. 1t is announced,
however. that the President does not in
tend to indefinitely postpone the visit He
VIII go some time within the next few
weeks or month. He desires TO make the
trip and is sorry that he will have to dis
appoint the southern people.
Prepared to Go to Groten.
While the President. at the time the bull
letin was announced did not expect to go
to Groton, he is prepared 10 ankle a record
breaking journey at any minute he may
be called. He could leave the White House
In ten minutes. The Pennsylvania railroad
has train already made up awaiting a
telephone ge from the White Honse
that the President wants to use 1t imme-
diately. An engine is kept fred at all times
and crew is under orders to report at A
lew minutes notice. The train could be
made ready from the time the President
left the White House until he reached the
depot and in the same interval the rail-
road could be cleared for the presidential
special.
Mrs Roosevelt will wire the President
frequently c n her
Is at her boys bedside, and will remain
there until the crisis is passed.
baggage Regulations in New York.
The fresh crusade that has begun
against the personal baggage regulations
at the port of New York promises to be-
come the most extensively backed and in
fuential that has yet been put under way.
A few days ago the President received a
largely signed petition from well-known
ladies' OF Washington and New York, who
travel great deal, protesting against the
treatment they had received at New York
on returning from abroad. This has been
followed by many personal letters sent
to President Roosevelt, adding to the pro-
tests, and on top of that the Merchants
and Manufacturers Board of Trade of
New York has taken the matter up and
added its condemnation. C. C. Shayne,
the president of the association, today
presented to the President a series of res
olutions adopted by that organization de-
claring that the regulations are not proper
and right. One of the paragraphs of the
resolutions contains this:
1t has come to the knowledge OF the
members of this association that unreason-
able and obnoxious methods have been en-
ployed by inspectors at the docks in ex-
ecutlns this law, resulting, as it has in
some instances, to the great discomfort of
tourists, now. therefore, be it
Resolved, That the Merchants and Man.
ufacturers' Board of Trade, while fully ap-
mr. Of fc Ion
do most emphatfcally protest against the
conduct of the inspectors complained of at
the docks, in so far as they are obnoxious
and unnecessarily harsh, and we urge upon
the officials charged with the administra-
ton of this law the aba tement of those OBJ
noXious practices and declare ourselves to
most heartily cooperate with any and
everybody Joining in this protest"
Mr.. Shayne came to Washington with
Alexander Smith and L.. Ketchum, a COM
mittee from the board OF trade. to present
the resolutions and to confer with the Sec
retary Of the Treasury. An effort will be
made to have Secretary Shaw take up the
case and investigate the complaints fully
with the view of overturning the regula-
tions.
Ladies are complaining that they not
only are Inundated and forced to suffer all
kinds of indignities In New York while
waiting to have their baggage examined,
but they are required to pay duties on
goods bought In this country and on goods
bought from actual necessity in Europe.
1t is charged that goods taken abroad
from this country and brought back are
frequently made to pay duty, notwithstand-
ing the most convincing facts and state
mentS.
Against Commissioner Evans.
J. D. Harris who was a member of the
9th Pennsylvania Regiment In the civil
war. and who was until recently superin-
tendent of one of the document rooms Of
fha Senate left at ha tod
the following protest against the manage
ment Of the pension office:
by and on behalf of the surviving SOL
diers of our wars, their widows, orphans
and dependents 1 respectfully petition and
pray for the removal from office of H. Clay
Evans, commissioner of pensions.
Il charge him with gross Irregularities
in the administration of the high office con-
ferred upon him. with brutal and inhuman
disregard of the lawful rights of claimants
for pension whose cases come before him.
with defeating legislation enacted for the
benefit of the soldier and his dependents by
inaetion, with depriving the minor children
Of soldiers and sailors who died in the serv-
ice, or subsequently thereto, before the
minor reached the age of sixteen years, of
the pension provided for them by the stat
utes, and which provide that the limitation
embraced therein shall not apply to minors
and insane persons by misconstruction of
law so as to have it conform with his ideas
of economy and reduction of pension paw
pense of the applicant in cases carrying
several years arrears by allowing the mini
mum rating where the evidence clearly
shows the pensioner to be entitled to the
maximum rating during the entire period
covered by the issue, with issuing secret in
structions to the presidents of examining
boards for the purpose of securing adv .rse
reports, with ignoring and rendering mop
erative the act of May ., 1900, with permit
ting members of Congress to influence him
in the admission of certain pension claims
to the great injury of applicants not pos
sessed of such influence, with Withholding
payment of pension in legally established
cases involving large sums of money on
first payment, with unlawfully interfering
with the duties of courts respecting the ac-
counts of guardians of pensioners with un-
suspending payment of pension be-
cause the frugality and care Of the guar
dian showed an accumulation i'm bank to
his credit, which he demanded should be
expended before further payment of PEN
sion would be made. (See case of Mrs
Margaret Brick, guardian of George J.
Brick, insane)
Numerous other charges could be cited
all of which can be sustained by the rec
ords of the bureau and the testimony of
injured parties.
MAY HOLD CIVILIAN POSITIONS.
Sfafufes In. NOf AnnIv tn