Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-22
AT THE WHITE HOUSE
Not Much Executive Business
Now.
ALASKA INQUIR Y
JUDGE DAY TO LEAVE FOR THE
TERRITORY SHORTLY.
President Getting Bulletins Of the Con-
vention - Some Of His
Callers Today.
A ALASKA INQUIR Y

President Roosevelt mas MS eAeSuei'S
work in such good shape that 1t is not
necessary for him to go to his omces as
early each morning as during the pussy
days he had while Congress was here and
while the settlement of the Panama canal
question and other public matters were
pending. The President remained In the
private apartments of his house until III
o'clock this morning before he went to
his offices and began the reception OF
visitors
Except for politics, the President ought
to have comparatively easy summer.
There are few questions pending that
cannot be disposed of by cabinet officers
and their departmental assistants, ana IL
will not be necessary to trouble the Pres
dent either at Oyster Bay or here with
details that can be attended to elsewhere
than the White House. The President VIII
spend more time with political callers
and friends during the summer than ne
will with those having executive busl-
ness, inasmuch as he will have much time
to spare for consideration OF subjects
other than executive.
Among the Presidents MONDAY visitors
were Rev. /. RittO Baker and Rev Walter
H. Lowell, pastors of English Congrega-
tional churches. They are in this country
studying the American school system.
The President talked with them about re-
ligiouS and political matters in England.
He appeared to be well posted as to the
positions of the leading English political
parties.
Bulletins of the Convention.
President Roosevelt's natural interest In
keeping posted on the proceedings of the
Chicago convention have been fully salts
fled by the receipt of press association bull
letins and private messages from friends.
The press association narratives of the pro-
ceedjngs arrive in the same form in which
they are received by each newspaper, and
the President reads them whenever he feels
inclination. He is much pleased with
the speech of ex-Secretary Root, which he
considers one of the masterpieces of oratory
and logic of recent years. He will send
Mr.. Root letter of congratulat1on-
President Roosevelt will also get the pro-
ceedings of the ST. Louis convention. if he
desires, but he will be at Oyster Bay at
there are limited, he will not endeavor to
receive all the news of the convention of
the opposition party
The Alaskan Inquiry.
Attorney General Knox spent short time
with the President He said that he did
not have any news of Importance. as he
was just getting things in shape for retire
ment from his office.
Judge William A. Day, the assistant to
the Attorney General, who has been desig
mated to make a thorough investigation OF
judiciary scandals in Alaska, will leave for
the Pacific coast in a few days. He will
sail for Alaska early in July, and will
visit Ketchikan, Wrangell. Sitka, Juneau
and Skagway, in the southeastern part OF
the territory. 1t is in this part of the terri
tory that the charges have been made
against the conduct in office of Judge Mel
vile Brown, who appointed from
Wyoming four years ago. From Skagway
Judge Day will go to Dawson, and thence
800 miles down the Yukon river to ST.
Michael, stopping at Eagle, Rampant, Fair
banks and other places on the way. From
st. Michael which is near the mouth of the
Yukon, Judge Day will go north to Nome,
which is the largest mining town In Alaska,
and where some of the worst scandals in
the history of the territory have occurred.
visit will probably be made later on to
Valdez which Is prosperous town at the
head of the Gulf of Alaska, and where
many of the important mining cases have
been tried by Judge Wickersham of the
third district. President Roosevelt is very
much interested in this inquiry, and he will
fill none of the offices which became vacant
is completed. Judge Day will probably be
in Alaska until late in September.
Gen. Chaffee's Tour of Inspection.
Secretary Taft called with Lieut. Gen.
Chaffee chief of staff. Gen. Chaffee, with
Quartermaster General Humphrey, will
leave Washington in day or two for an
extended tour of inspection of the army
posts in the northwest and the north Pa
cifc coast. They will visit Detroit, Du-
luth, ST. Paul and the principal forts in
the Department of Dakota; Fort Yellow
stone and the posts in the state of WASH
ngton, including the coast defenses of
Puget sound The tour will not include
California, as both officers are familiar
with the military conditions in that part OF
the country.
Representative Kinkaid of Nebraska saw
the President for a few minutes in relation
to the withdrawal from entry of %, $40
acres of land to be attached to Fort Nj
obrara, making that fort the largest in area
In the country.
Divide Robillard, an attorney in New York
and Paris, called on the President this
morning and presented to him the French
publication of the Presidents work, Amer
lean Ideals This publication was pre-
pared by Professor Izoulet of the French
Academy one of the most distinguished
authors of France. Many of the works of
the President now published abroad
sions, talked with the President this morn
ing, but went away without having any
information to make public He discussed
some pension matters.
Senior Don Martin Garcia Merou, the Ar
gentine minister, today introduced to the
President the secretary of the Argentine
legation, the naval attache and the COM
mander of the Argentine training Ship Ser
mientO, which Is in this country. The pre-
sentation took place in the blue room OF
the White House.
TOO MUCH NOISE.