Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-10
Believed That the Beef Trust
Will Be Prosecuted.
A SIGNIFICANT VISIT
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL AND
MIR. GARFIELD SEE PRESIDENT.
Talk Of Changes in tho Gabinet-Con-
CALCULATIONS Still Pour in-John
Morley an Honored Guest.

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or possible significance was a call at the
White House today by Attorney General
Moody and James r. Garfield, commissioner
of corporations. They did not have long
conference with the President. but that
there will be conferences later in which the
President will discuss important questions
with them is reasonably certain
1t Is understood that Commissioner Gar
field Is getting into shape the facts Of his
investigation Of the beef trust and its meth
DDS of doing business, and that he will soon
lay his report before the President, who
will in turn submit it to Congress for the
information of that body. The probability
Is that the report will be ready for the
President to send to Congress at the begin
ming of the coming session.
There is pretty strong ground for believ-
ing that Attorney General Moody will now
take some action against the beef trust and
possibly against several other big combina-
lions that have been under investigation
be ascertained, and 1t is likely that no one
knows what steps, if any, will be taken.
The details of the report to be made by Mr.
Garfield are not known. and it cannot be
told whether these facts warrant legal ac-
ton against the trust, but the presence of
Mr.. Moody and Mr.. Garfield at the White
House and the promise OF further confer
enceS lead to much conjecture
Discussion Of Cabinet Changes.
When Mr.. Moody entered the Department
of Justice from the navy portfolio 1t was
pretty well understood that he would not
remain for long time In the cabinet, and
that he would probably return to Massa-
chusetts and resume the practice of law
after the 4th of next March. The Presi-
will diScuQda Mr. MOndv
this course and will seek to have him con-
tinue in his present position indefinitely.
The prospects that there will be highly i'm
portant litigation against trusts in the
next few years will make the retention Of
Mr.. Moody desirable one on the part of
the President.
The exact course the administration is to
pursue as to trusts and combinations COM
| ing under the Sherman antitrust law has
| probably not been determined by the Presi-
| dent and Attorney General Moody.
The talk of the retention Of Mr.. Moody
sion that is going on as to probable
changes in the cabinet after the 4th of
March. 1t Is not thought there will be any
change before that time unless 1t Is the
entrance of Mr.. Cortelyou as Postmaster
General to succeed Mr.. Wynne, regarding
whom there is already talk of another cabi-
net place. There is some gossip to the eff
to remain In Office much longer. and
Secretary Hitchcock is also spoken of
as having a desire to retire to his business
in Missouri. Among the men slated for
places In the cabinet some time in the fu-
ture Is Mr.. Garfield, who is known to have
the esteem of the President
Breaking of the Solid South.
President Roosevelt has been greatly
pleased with the fact that Missouri has
been put in the republican column and
that he has broken the solid south, the first
republican candidate to be able to do SO.
There is genuine regret affthe White House
and among the callers there that the re-
suit in Missouri win probably mean the
retirement of Senator COckrell. The feel
ing was fully expressed by Senator Nc
Comas of Maryland, who had a talk with
the president about the situation in Mary
land: Politically am glad to see that the
solid south has been broken, but am pro-
foundry sorry personally to the prob
able defeat of Senator Cockrell who has
one of the greatest records in the Senate
of any man in the country. He is a splen-
did, clean, able man, full of patriotism, and
his work on the appropriations committee
has saved the country millions of dollars.
1t is a great pity that he is to be retired,
as no better man could be sent to the Sem
ate from the state.
THE solid south will stay broken, in my
opinion. Missouri, Maryland and West Vir-
ginia are entitled to be placed in the re-
publican column from now on We have
won victory in Maryland and there is no
doubt of the result. We will, now make
the state permanently republican"
Kentucky Carried on Race Issue.
John w. Yerkes Of Kentucky, the repub-
lican leader Of the state, was among the
| many callers today to congratulate the
President. Mr.. Yerkes said that Kentucky
had been prevented from going with the
republican landslide only by the forcing
of the negro issue. THAT ISSUE" he said
was worked from beginning to end and
kept thousands of men in line for the
democrats who earnestly desired to vote
the republican ticket"
President May Go to St. Louis.
1t is not improbable that the President
will go to ST. Louis before the end of the
month. He will receive a committee from
st. Louis this afternoon at o'clock and
they will present him with an invitation to
visit the exposition before its doors are
closed December 1. The committee will ear
nestly press It's request. The President de-
clined to accept a number of invitations
prior to the election because he did not de-
sire to appear in any public place where his
appearance or utterances might invite crti-
cism. The objections of that character are
now removed. and the President may see
fit to visit the big exposition. About the
only thing in the way will be whether he
can spare the time this close to the as
sembling of Congress and the preparation of
his message to that body.
John Morley Presidents Guest.
John Morley the eminent English author
and statesman, arrived in Washington to-
day and is guest of the President and
Mrs. Roosevelt at the White House. Mr.
Morley, who is a member of the British par
lament, is visiting this country as a stu
dent of economic conditions. He will be a
guest at the White House for two days. To-
night the President will give dinner In his
honor to which a number of prominent per-
sons will be invited to meet him. He will
be the guest of honor at another dinner at
the White House tomorrow night.
Ten Thousand Congratulations.
Ten thousand congratulatory messages
| have been received by President Roosevelt,
and still they are pouring into the White
House by hundreds. In the first mail today
more than a thousand letters conveying
to the President the Fluctuations Of the
writers were received. and each succeeding
mail contained its immense quota of con-
gratulatory letters. Notwithstanding the
number of the messages IL has been de-