The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-14
President and Secretary Root
Discuss Many Important
Questions
AGREE AS TO THE FRIARS
Miss Alice Roosevelt Arrives from the
Adriondacks After Making Tire
some Trip of Forty Miles
in a Blackboard.

Oyster Bay, N. Y, July 13.-President
Roosevelt and Secretary Root were 50
busily engaged today in the considera-
ton of important subjects that neither
one attended church.
Shortly before the morning services be-
gan at Christ Episcopal church, Mrs.
Roosevelt, accompanied by four of the
children-Theodore, Jr.. Archibald, Ker-
NIT and Ethel-arrived at the church in
a trap from Sycamore Hill. The edifice
was thronged with people and Mrs.
Roosevelt and the children were given. a
cordial reception by their neighbors and
friends The rector, the Rev. DR.. Wash
burn. made indirect reference to the as
sassination of Mr.. Mckinley by basing
his sermon upon the last words of the
late President:
Thy will, not ours, be done.'
One of the important questions dis
cussed by the President and Secretary
Root was that relating to Governor Taft's
negotiations with the vatican respecting
the Philippine friars.
Friars Must Not Reman.
Both Mr.. Roosevelt and the Secretary
of War deemed it unwise that the friars
should remain in the archipelago with
cne prestige they now possess. The at
titude the friars assume is regarded not
only as a menace to the peace of the ISL
ands, but also as an obstruction to their
government and to the civilization of
their inhabitants.
No statement OF the conclusion reached
by the President and Secretary Root
could be obtained at Sycamore HILL but
unofficially 1t is understood that a note
bhinp In
transmitted by the pope through Cover
nor Taft to the administration. AS Cover
nor Taft started the negotiations 1t is
likely that the reply of this government
will be sent to the vatican authorities
through him. Ample assurance is given
that the United States will take strong
ground in support of its contention that
the friars must be eliminated from the
Philippines. 1t is said that no official
statement of any phase of the situation
will be made until the negotiations with
the vatican have been concluded and
that then the announcement will be made
from Washington.
Many Handsome Yachts.
Several handsome steam yachts from
New York were in the bay today, among
them the Presidents official yacht, the
Mayfiower, which came down from the
Brooklyn navy yards under orders
Only her commander and the President
know definitely what those orders are
The vessel. which is one Of the finest and
most handsomely fitted In the naval serv-
ice, has been undergoing repairs at the
Brooklyn navy yard. These are not
completed yet and will not be for two
weeks. 1t was said today that the officers
ano crew. numbering i40 men, were work.
ing or the repairs and improvements
night and day.
Miss Alice Roosevelt arrived here this
evening shortly before o'clock She has
been enjoying brief sojourn at Camp
Santinnoni on Newcomb lake, in the
AdiropdaclSs. a few miles from the start
ing point of Mr.. Roosevelt when he left
the North woods for Buffalo after the
death of President Mckinley. Miss Roose-
welt made the drive to the railway sta
tion from the camp. a distance of forty
miles, in a blackboard, her driver being
the same man who drove Mr. Roosevelt
on that memorable midnight ride