The Savannah morning news., 1902-07-15
PRESIDENTS DAY.
CEN. WOOD To BE ON CANAL COM
MISSION.

senator spooner Discusses Purchase
with Chief Magistrate-A Trip to
paris TO Investigate Title to Pana-
ma Route-President and Family
Iuspect the New Official Yacht.
itineraries Prepared for New
rn...nd and Western Trips.
oyster Bay, N. Y, July 1.-THE
PRESIDENT has invited Gen. Leonard
wood to visit him at Sycamore Hill
oorlv in August. Gen. Wood is men
+ioned as a probable member of the.
1etbn1ian Canal Commission, to have
General charge of the canal construc-
+ion 1t is understood tonight that 1t
&c not unlikely that he may be ap-
nointed as the head of the commits
sion.
The visit of Senator j. c. Spooner
IN Sycamore Hill excites much inter-
est here. Mr.. Spooner came up the
sound on yacht, arriving in the bay
shortly after 6 o'clock last night. He
cant note to the President, and az
.ar coming ashore, was soon in con-
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secretary Root.
The conference lasted until
a,nost midnight The title
N The Panama Canal Conapang's prop
erty was under discussion.
Must Have Good Title.
Hinder the provisions of the isthmian
canal measure recently enacted by
Congress, and which bears Mr.. Spoon
er's name, the President is authorized
10 ACQUIRE the Panama canal property
for $4,000, 900, provided that he shall
he satisfied that the new Panama Ca
nal Company can pass to the United
states a clear title to it's preaerty.
Senator Spooner has been invited by
the Department of Justice to assist
in the investigation of the title. This
Investigation will necessitate a trip to
paris by those making it. Senator
Spooner is reasonably certain that this
country can acquire a clear title to the
property, and some of his reasons for
lis belief were presented last night.
Although Senator Spooner's term In the
Senate does not expire until 1905, a
contest against him already has been
inaugurated, and it is said that the
natter was adverted to briefly. After
the conference Senator SGooner re-
turned to the yacht.
President Roosevelt and Secretary of
War Root spent the greater part of to-
day in considering matters of impor-
lance which reached them from Wash
ington. Architect McKim of New York,
who prepared the plans for, and is sup
el'vising the work of the reconstruc-
ton of the interior of the White House
at Washington, had a consultation with
the President and Mrs. Roosevelt con-
corning the repairs in progress.
Took Trip to MnyfIosver.
AT 4 o'clock, the President, Mrs.
Roosevelt, Secretary Root, Miss Roose-
welt, DIR. Lambert, the Presidents
physician; Mr.. McKin and the Roose-
welt children went aboard the official
yacht MaYhower, which lies about
eight miles from Sycamore Hill. The
trip to the yacht was made in one of
the Mayfiower's launches. Secretary
Root boarded the government yacht
kanawha, which haG been awiting
him and in the early evening left for
New York. He expects to reach
Washington tomorrow morning. At
ter carefully inspecting the Mayfower,
the President and his party returned
to Sycamore HILL
Charles r. Miller, editor of the New
York Times, called on the President to-
night.
The itineraries of the President on
.,, his trips ITO, New England and to the
Northwestern states have been COM
peted and Secretary Cortelyou ex-
poets to go to Washington tomorrow
to complete the final arrangements for
both trips. No deviation will be made
from the schedule of stops already pre-
pared. Mr. Cortelyou will take a we'll
deserved rest, and it may be a month
before he returns here. Tomorrow aft
ernoon Mrs. Roosevelt will give a re-
ception on board the Mayhower to the
members of the ladies' auxiliary of
Christ Episcopal Church, of which she
Is a member. The party will be taken
on board the yacht in launches at 4
O'clock. A three-hours' sail will be a
pleasant incident of the reception.