Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-23

opportunity to welcome and entertain the
| President and are bringing all kinds of
pressure on their senators to have them Sc
cure the desired visits AS much as posi-
BILE. in view of the schedules, Secretary
Loeb is accommodating the requests of SEN
ators He talked today with Senators Gull
| lom, Hansbrough, Clark, Warren, Hepburn,
Foster, Ankeny, Representatives CuShman,
Humphreys and a number Of others.
The President wishes to Stop at as many
places as the train schedules will allow, but
cannot afford to overtax the schedule and
get behind, as that would disarrange every
thing. The Washington senators and rep
resentatives secured rearrangement OF
the schedule on that point
A Merry War in Seattle.
The rearrangement of the Washington
schedule was accomplished after all kinds
of heartburnings in that state, especially
in Seattle. In that city the people and the
newspapers grew wild because they
thought Seattle had been Disseminated
against in the Presidents visit, and the
whole thing was charged to Senator Fos-
ter, whose home is in Tacoma. The people
of Seattle wanted to have the President
with them in daylight, so that they could
give him all that was coming to him, and
they declared that Senator Foster Cor some
of them did had not treated them fairly.
Seattle is the home of ex-senator Wilson
tilfty to Senator Foster in that state. AS
originally arranged, the Presidents tour
of Washington contemplated stop at Ia
coma on the Afternoon of May o. the Pres
ident to spend the night there At O. o'clock
on the morning Of the 28d he was to leave
Tacoma for visit to different points on
Puget sound, reaching Seattle at O'Clock
In the afternoon, spending the night there
and the entire Sundayy4pthe' 24th But the
people of Seattle claimed that there was no
steamer on the sound that could land the
PRESIDENT In their city at.4 O'clock Saturday
afternoon and that he would not get in
until probably Z o'clock, too late for the
people of the city to see and. entertain him
10 thelr heart's content. All kinds of tele-
grams nave been pouring into Washington
and to the White House. Finally Seattle
put her new representative in the House
aboard train and urged him to f1y to
washington and have the schedule
representa- ative-elect Humphreys reached
washington last night and, accompa MED nv
senators roster and Ankeny and Represen-
tatlVe Cushman, went to- the White House
TINS morning The battle of hours was
Iought out with the President as referee
The Seattle people got part but NOT ali of
"hat they wanted, and the schedule as now
arranged, is for the President to leave Ia
coma at o'clock, according to program,
make short stopsat the Bremerton navaI
station and go direct to Seattle arriVine
tnere at pm, remaining until $50 O. clock
giving two and a half hours Of daylight
leaving seattle at $3.50 o'clock the Presi-
dent will visit Everett another sound
city, and return to Seattle late in the dav
spending Saturday night Sunday and sun
oay night there. Commercial and political
Iealousies or all kinds are constantly en-
ter1ng into the demands for rearraneement
or schedules, and Secretary Loeb Is nrovine
nimselt iii as an adept at smoothing down the
III lttie furries that sweep around him
Inoughtful, cool and considerate he sends
everybody away feeling that thew have re-
CeiNeu all that thew ppfftlad "a
The President will leave Washington a
week from Wednesday and will be absent
ah3Iit, IRON mere re until the 9th of June. The prob
aplllty is that when the President leaves
here April 1 he will spend little time IN
washington until next September or Oc-.
tober; Upon the conclusion of his western
trlp ne may stop in Washington a short
tlme, but toward the last of June he will go
to Oyster bay and remain there. spendino
'he summer much as he did last year.
For the Canal Commission.
number of democratic senators have
urged the President to appoint ex-senator
James K. Jones of Arkansas as a member
of the interoceanic commission to have
charge of the construction Of the sthmian
canal. The senators who have urged
senator Jones are from democratic states
Whlch nave no candidates of their own.
mere mere are number of democratic candi-
yates TOT places on the commission, among
senator Harris o. Kansas, a Tennessee
man, Georgian and a Louisianian
SENATOR Culiom who was at the White
House today believes that the Cuban SEN
ate VIII succeed in putting through the
amended treaty as ratified by the United
states Senate. If it does not do SO he
thinks that a protocol may extend the
time SO as to prevent the treaty expiring.
He has no fears that the treaty will have
10 pc made over again. Senator Cullom
IS not going to Illinois for some time. He
mas an engagement to preside at a meeting
OF south American countries in Philadel-
pnla April 1S. and before that time intends
TO take short rest at Atlantic City.
In Honor Of Ex-Rapressntative Grow
The President was ssinvited today to at
tend a rousing Demonstration: In June next
in honor of the long public services Of
Galusha A. Grow, the venerable Pennsyl-
vania representative who retired from
Congress March 4. The demonstration is
to be held at Muntrose. Susquehanna
county. and will be a. notable affair. Lead
Ing men OF the state are to take part. With
the retirement Of Mr.. Grow In March he
had served his state almost continuously
for hfty-two years, and has been factor
IN Congress In the most critical periods of
tne countrys history The President said
ne would be able to be present and do
honor to Mr.. Grow, but that If 1t were pos
sibie nothing would give him. more pleas
T. Dubois and Edward Karr of Pennsyl-
vania and B. H. Warner of this city.
Place for Maryland Man.
Senator McComas talked with the Presi-
dent this morning about the selection of a
Maryland man for a place as one of the
commissioners of this country to meet with
representatives of China Mexico and other
countries to attempt to reach an agreement
upon such measures as will tend to restore