Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-20
At THE WHITE HOUSE
An Early Adjournment Of
Congress Favored.
MAY l rs SUGGESTED
NEW PANAMA CANAL CoMMIS-
sIoNERs HAVE BEEN CHOSEN.
Names to Be Announced Next Wednes-
day, Immediately After Ratifica-
ton of Treaty.
MAY l Is SUGGESTED

The minds of members of Congress are
turning to the question of the adjournment
of that body. There is a unanimous opinion
among those who call at the White House,
and who have referred to adjournment in
talking with the President that there in
absolutely no reason why the legislature
should be in session after May /. and some
senators and representatives declare that
April 10 would be the proper time for ad-
| journment.
Senator Lodge says that Congress- ought
| to be able to finish it's work by April 10 at
| the latest. 1T seems to me-" he said to a
Star reporter that there is nothing to keep
| Congress here after April 10. The canal
| treaty is practically out of the way, and the
| appropriation bills can be handled in sufi-
| cient time to get away by the middle of
| April"
House leaders also see no reason against
| an early adjournment In the House adj
Journment can be arranged for at almost
| any time, as the rules of that body permit
the expedition of business. Senator Dryden
| of New Jersey, one of the White House
callers today, said: Il really think we
| could easily dispose of the work ahead of
| us and adjourn by April !, but, allowing
| for everything that may not be able to
| see. May 1 ought to be the limit for
naming here. The Panama legislation has
been the most important We have had and
| will have, and with this out of the way
| next week there will be nothing l can now
see to prevent the early passage of the ap-
preparation bills. l find that the democratic
senators are in accord with the republicans
| about an early adjournment"
Senator Quarles of Wisconsin feels that
| Congress could easily get away by April
| 10, but he fixes May 1 the time for being
| ing here after May L. Senator Quarles
| said. with the appropriation bills the
| main work to be done, there ought to be no
| reason why we should stay here. These
| dISDOSPd a
| When the Panama treaty is settled the
most important matter for action Is the
| case of General Leonard Wood l am sure
| that settlement of this case Will require
| only few days There may be some COM
| plications in the far eastern situation to be
looked after by Congress, but do not an
/ ticipate anything that will delay adjourn
ment after May II
Senator Fulton of Oregon expressed the
| opinion that May i ought to find Congress
away from Washington, and Senator Mitch
! ell of the same state said: II have been in
| the Senate for a good many years, but
have never seen the prospects so good for
| an early adjournment We do not know
what may happen in connection with the
ca astern problem, but without unexpected
| complications we ought to get away from
| here without trouble the 1st of May
| Has Good Memory.
| President Roosevelt has a remarkable
| memory for the faces and names of people
| he has met, and this was shown again to-
day in his greeting of George H. Buckstaf
| of Oshkosh, Wis, who went to the White
| House to renew a transient acquaintance
| formed twelve years ago. Mr.. Buckstaff
| was hunting in Texas at the time and cas-
| ually met the President, who was in that
| state hunting peccaries, a small wild hog.
| They hunted together for a few days and
| then parted without the expectation of see
| ing each other again. Before Senator
| Ouarles could introduce Mr.. Buckstaff the
| President had extended his greetings and
recalled the circumstances of their meeting
and of their hunt.
Senator Bard of California had a confer
| ence with the President today. The inn
| preston prevails that John p. Irish, the
| naval officer of the port of San Francisco,
about whose office the California repub-
| licans nave had much to say in the last
| year or so, will resign his position before
many months
| Representative Sherley of Louisville in
| troduced a party of insurance agents from
! Louisville who are in Washington on an
excursion. Senator Clapp of Minnesota
and Representative Loudenslager of New
Jersey introduced friends.
Delegate Mcguire of Oklahoma and three
prominent citizens of the terrftory-ex-
Judge Sleeper, Mayor Turner of Lawton
and Mr. Cunningham, the county attorney
at Lawton-had a talk with the President
about the expenditure of the proceeds of
the sale of lots in Lawton, Andarko and
Hobart. There is a fund of about S150000
to be used in county and city improve
are in a great struggle about how 1t is to
be spent. Delegations of them have con-
suited with e~-retary Hitchcock of the In
terror Department and have suggested
many ways of disposing of the money. The
President wanted some facts. and this in
duced a call from the men named.
Canal Commission Selected.
President Roosevelt has selected the men
who are to constitute the Panama
nal commission, and formal announcement
of the personnel of the commission will be
made as the treaty with Panama
shall have been ratified next Tuesday. AS
heretofore stated. Rear Admiral John w.
Walker who is president of the existing
isthmian canal commission, will be MEM
her of the new commission. probably its
head. and Gen. George W. Davis also will
be a member. In addition to those two,
Col Frank G. Hecker of Detroit, who dur
ing the Spanish-AmeTican war was director
of transportation for the War Department,
has been chosen by the President for a
place on the commission. He has indicated
his acceptance of the appointment. The
commission is TO be composed of seven
members.
The other four have been selected. but
no intmatlon is given to who they may
be. except that one of them is a prominent
Louisianian. He viii be the southern man
on the commission. 1t is understood to be
quite certain that former Senator James
X Jones of Arkansas. former Gov. Sayers
of Texas. Isham Randolph of Chicago. who
was the chief engineer of the Chicago
drainage canal. and former Senator Harris
of Kanses. all of whom have been named
prominently in connection with appoint
ments to the commission, are not
among the selections of the President. 1t
is expected that the President very soon
viii. receive acceptances from all of the
men whom he has chosen for the comms-
sion. His effort has been to secure men
who. in a notable degree. are well fitted for
the work which they will have to do, and
1t is believed the announcement of the per-
sonnel of the commission will commend
itself to the people of the country.
The names of the commission will be
sent to the Senate Wednesday OF next
week. and the President hopes to see early
confirmation. that the work of digging the
canal may commence without unnecessary
delay.
A Vagrant Office Cat.
Neither the President nor Secretary Loeb
has eyer had time to consider the question