The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-16
JEWS SOUGHT AID
OF THE PRESIDENT
Prominent Representatives Of the Jewish People
Plead for Russian Jews

Washington, June 15.-Through
their representative association, B'Nai
Birth, the Jews of America to-day
laid their case before President Roose-
welt and Secretary Hay, and they are
content to abide by whatever the ex-
ecutive decides is best for them. BY
appointment at 1920 o'clock this morn
ing, the Executive Council of this as
ISOLATION called at the State Depart
ment They were Leo N. Levi, pres
ident, New York; Jacob Furth, vice
president and treasurer, Cleveland;
Solomon Sulzberger, honorary secre-
tary, New York; Joseph D. Coons,
Wilkesbarre, Pa; Adolph Moses, Chi
cago, and Simon Wolff, Washington.
Secretary Hay received the council
in the diplomatic room, and spent
quarters of an hour listening TO
their representations and commenting
upon them. Then the Secretary es-
corted his callers to the White House.
where they were received by President
Roosevelt, and again set out their
views and listened to what he had to
say in reply. The interviews with
both the President and Secretary were
extremely satisfactory to the council.
The massacre at Kishineff was the
principal topic of discussion. But the
Jews realized, after hearing what the
President and Secretary Hay had to
say, that there was nothing that this
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undo what had been done in Bessara-
bia So, looking to the future, the
council besought the President to use
his good offices to secure the ear CT
the Car.
The President and Secretary Hay
listened with the deepest interest and
sympathy to these representations, and
both replied in terms that showed the
depth of their feeling in the matter.
1t was promised that everything that
the executive could properly do without
violating the principles of international
comfy would be done, but that neither
President Roosevelt nor Secretary Hay
was able to make any definite promise
beyond this, which was accepted as
satisfactory.
Tonight a statement was given out
at the White House concerning the
conference on the Kishineff affair. The
statement consisted OF memorandum
submitted by the B'Nai Birth on the
massacre in April, a tentative draft of
a petition to the Gar which it was
desired this government should unoffi-
cially or semi officially assist in deIiv-
erng to the Gar and procuring a reply
thereto, and copy of the replies of Sec
rotary Hay and President Roosevelt to
their callers.
The memorandum says the facts con-
corning the Kishineff massacre, as Off
cially reported by the Russian govern
ment, have appalled, and Mortified, not
only the Jews in Russia and elsewhere,
but the whole American people, who
want something done, and whose hos
tility to Russia, If nothing is done, will
come intensified and fixed. The
Jews. it says likewise are feaful of the
future.
Two propositions were submitted:
First, that a petition to the Gar from
leading men Of all states of the union
be prepared, the government to assist
in securing its delivery TO the Car and
a reply thereto: secondly. TO use the
Kishineff incident as the basis for an
official invitation by the United States.
addressed to all the Powers, to an in