The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-23
VISITORS TO SYCAMORE HILL.
Cortelyou Secs the President on Department
Business.

OYSTER BAY, y. Y. Aug. 22--Secretary
Cortelyou and ex-senator Thomas H. Carter
Of Montana were the only guests at Saga
more Hill to-day. Secretary Cortelyou,
who came last night, stayed until late this
afternoon, when he left for Hempste ad,
where he expected to visit with frit ncis for
few hours. and then 60 to Washington
Before leaving Oyster Bay Mr.. Cortelyou
said that his conference with the Preside mt
was about Departmental matters Of minor
importance. He refused to say anything
for publication about the Investigations
in progrt IS in Washington to ascertain the
extent OF the influence Of labor unions
on Government work, or to tell whether
during his visit any Of the results Of the
inquiry were laid before Mr.. Roosevelt.
Mr.. Cortelyou, il was. announced here
tonight, will preside at the International
Congress of Actuaries, which will convene
in New FORK on Aug 81 Delegates from
many life and fire insurance companies
and from prominent savings banks in this
country and other countries will attend
the congress.
Ex-senator Carter came to see the Presi
dent about some local appointments in
Montana, and to talk with him about mat
tiers connected with the St Louis EXPOSE
! ton. Mr.. Ca ter although he is no longer
In the Senate, takes an active interest IN the
distribution Of political patronage in Mon
tana and does all he can to relieve Senator
Clark and the Senator's Democratic fol-
lowing from the troubles incident TO dis
posing Of local appointments.
, Mr. Carter Ia President Of the National
Commission Of. the st. lie uis exp sltn n.
He said, after getting back from Saga
more Hill. that everything connected With
the fair was progressing most satlsiac-
tcrily The main buildings Of the expo
81 ie n, he said, will be completed by Nov l.
The men who are engaged on them vii!
then, he said. be put 70 work on the state
and foreign buildings, and tho Sc are ex.
pecred to be ready for the installation OF
exhibits by Jan. l. The fair, the Senator
said would surely be ready to be opened
During his visit. to Sycamore Hill Mr..
Carter informed the President that the
prospects for a complete Roc seveh victory
in the. West are M st bright. He told MIR.
Roosevelt that he believed that all the
Western States which decamped In 1895
would surely return to the Republican Il Id
: in the next Presidential election. The
Senator did not think that there was any
general demand for financial legislation in
the West. That part of the country. he
said. was prosperous in every sense of the
! word.
! why paid Mr.. Carter, we are loaning
money to the Fast -something almost I'm
| heard of before, and New York and Phila-
delphia paper ia being discounted in the
, banks OF our small Western States
The furry Of stocks in the last, Mr..
! Carter sold. was attributed in the West to
purely local condit ions. and people there. he
said. thought that the situation would soon
adjust itself satisfactorily without any
! serious results.
Before leaving Oyster Bay Mr.. Carter
took coca sion to deny that he had opposed
the appointment Of Louis L. Williams Of
Juneau. Alaska. by Secretary Hitchcock as
! a member OF the Alaskan Commission 10
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition because
Mr. Williams is Democrat. The Senate or
said that he would have opposed Mr.. Will
liams's appointment if he had been Re-
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