Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-16
At THE WHITE HOUSE
President Cassatt Has Brief
Interview.
GREAT MANY VISITORS
SENATORS AND REPRESENTA-
TIVES CALL ON PRESIDENT.
Project for an American Commercial
Center in Paris Advocated
by M. Guyot.
GREAT MANY VISITORS

l IISSiueul SdSSdlt VI tHt IeiISylN anna
| railroad spent some time in the executive
offices of the White House today He had
| a brief talk with the President He was
| among the early callers, but waited like
| all the other callers for his turn. He sat
| and talked with Senator Penrose of Penn
| sylvania, Senator Aldrich and others who
| were waiting to get a minute with the chief
| executive. 1t was after the cabinet MEM
| bers had begun to assemble that Mr.. CAS-
| sa tt reached the President. Their talk was
| brief in fact Mr.. Cassatt said it was not
over two minutes. The natural superstition
| was that the question of legislation for en-
| largement of the powers of the interstate
| commerce commission or the creation or a
| court to pass upon railroad rebates was
| talked over but Mr.. Cassatt said that his
| talk was too short for that. If he has some
| views of this kind, and there Is no doubt
| that he has he may see mt to communicate
| them to the President in letter, which Is
really the best way of reaching the chleI
executive.
Senator Penrose did not accompany Presi-
dent Cassatt to the White House and they
| met in the executive offices while each was
waiting. -
President beyond the time for his confer
ence with his cabinet officers. Senator
Hopkins of Illinois presented l.. T. Hoy,
appraiser of merchandise at Chicago ana
his assistant, Alfred j. Kebbon. Senator
Bard of California presented constituent.
So did Senator Alger of Michigan Rep
resentatives Littlefield of Maine and Nc
Call of Massachusetts, paid their respects.
and Senator Lodge had few minutes with
the President. Senator Foster of Lou
isana, Ex-Governor Merriam of Minnesota,
now located in New York; Representative
Lacey of Iowa, Senator McComas of Mary
land and Senators CulOm and Allison all
saw the President.
The New York Senatorship.
Doo,oeo,tot;,ra Tittauar of New York.
who was among the first of the New York
ers who came to Washington with the as
sembling of Congress to declare that ex-
Governor Black would succeed Senator De-
pew in the United States Senate, was with
the President few minutes. He said there
was nothing to say relative to the sena-
torShip. THE morning papers give all tho
news. They are full of it," was his COM
ment. The morning papers carried the IN
formation that at conference of New
York republicans last night the overwhelm-
ing vote had been in favor of Ex-Governor
Black for the Senate. That was yindica-
ton enough of the opinion of Mr.. Littauer.
Mr.. Littauer is one of the best friends
and ablest lieutenants OF Gov. Odell, who
is declared to have come to the conclusion
long ago that he would have Black selected
to succeed Depew.
M. Yves Guyot, formerly French minister
OF pubic WOTkS, IIlQ MI. HeOuOTe SldUlOlp
member of the American chamber of COM
merce of Paris, called on the President to
tell him that they have succeeded in doing
something definite toward the establishment
in Paris of an American commercial center.
They were here in October and at that
time talked with the President, Secretary
of State and Secretary of Commerce and
Labor and found them all interested in the
project. NJ. Guyot and Mr.. Stanton came
to Washington for an important French
syndicate that proposes converting into a
great American exposition or trade center
the historical Palais Royal, which lies in
the center of the heart of Paris. The plan
has been cheerfully and cordially approved
by this government After seeing ofhc1alS
here the visitors went to New York, where
| they succeeded in interesting powerful
| body of business men in the project. They
| are about to send to Paris special COM
mittee to look into the whole matter.
In an interview with a Star reporter rela-
| tive to the project NJ. Guyot said:
1.-The proposal which we have submitted
| to the commercial world of the United
States was suggested by the manner in
| which the great business houses organize
| their sales by means of a central agency
which establishes subagencies in the yart-
Gus states. The merchants of the United
States could cooperate, each preserving lis
| Individuality for the foundation of a CEN
| trail agency in Paris, which would have
branches throughout Europe.
1.-THE proposal which we make is simply
| the application of advice so familiar in the
| mouths of the American consuls. For
spasmodic, irregular and isolated effort it
| substitutes a systematic, organized and
| permanent action 1t will constitute a CEN
| trail agency for the trade of the United
| States in Europe
THE United States would make known
by this concentration of their products
their manufacturing capacity, not only to
France, but to the entire old world. To
| concentrate the European trade of the
| United States in edifice which would
serve at the same time an exhibition, a
| show room, a retail store, a warehouse and
an inquiry office, where each merchant
would preserve the individual direction of
his business and at the same time profit
by certain general services and certain
general expenses shared in common-such
is the program which we propose.
THE Palais Royal would become the
great European department store of the
United States
Today's Cabinet Meeting.
Departmental matters and questions of
administrative detail occupied the atten-
| ton of the President and members of the
cabinet at today's meeting. All the men,
bers were present for the first time for sew
eral weeks. Some appointments were con-
sidered, but nothing concerning them will
be made public until they are sent no the
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