Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-15
AT THE WHITE HOUSE
Talk on the Reduction OF
Government Printing.
THE JAMESTOWN FAIR
CHAIRMAN TAWNEY AND OTHERS
CONFER WITH PRESIDENT.
Invitations From Southern Cities for
Invitations From Southern Cities fol-
President to Visit Them-Some
Of Today's Callers.

Representative Charles Lands of Indiana.
chairman of the House committee on print
ing, advised with the President today about
an effort his committee will make to re-
duce the amount of printing by the govern
ment. Mr.. Lands thoroughly agrees with
the President that there Is a great deal of
unnecessary printing done by all the de-
partments of the government in the govern
ment printing office, and he said that his
committee is hard at work trying TO tind
plan that will reduce the waste of paper,
ink and time of preparing documents.
There are thousands of tons of stuff
printed In the government printing office,
declared Mr.. Lands, that are not worth
the paper they are printed on. l believe
that if we can find the right plan to stop
this We will save to the government at least
a million dollars year in the printing Of
flee, not to speak of the time now taken III
the preparation of all this stuff. l am con-
fident that at least one-third of the print
ing done in the printing office could easily
be cut off. / admit that the serious dlfil-
Guilty will be how best to determine what
can be left imprinted and who Will pass
upon what shall go imprinted These are
matters we must look carefully into before
we put forward a plan"
President Favors Exposition.
To Chairman Tawney and number of
members of the industrial arts and eXposi-
tions committee of the House today the
President stated that he was greatly in
terested In some celebration that would
commemorate the ter-centennial of the set
Element of jamestown. He had understood,
he said, that the committee had decided
against an exposition, and he desired to
know If this was true. Chairman TaWney
told him that he had been misinformed
The House committee, he said, had decided
against holding a land exposition, but did
feel favorably disposed to some great inter-
national naval and merchant marine demon
stration and exhibition in the harbor OF
Hampton Roads. The question of submit
ting plan for such commemoratlon, MI
Tawney told the President, had been sub
mitted to a subcommittee of his committee
and was now under consideration. He be-
lieyed that it was the unanimous Wish OF
the committee that the commemoratlon
should be an international affair of great
magnitude but what plans would be DECIDED
upon he could not now say. He was pleased,
he said. to find the President interested IN
the matter, and would be glad to receive
any Ideas the President might have.
THE President did not appear TO nave
anv plans of his own" said Mr.. Tawney,
but expressed his hope that Congress
would make suitable provision for cele-
brating an event so important in the his
tory of the country as the settlement Oh
jamestown in 1901
Representative Tawney has been criti-
cised by Virginians for causing an appar-
ent change in the plans for the holding of
an industrial exposition, and 1t was some
of these stories that induced the President
to take up the matter with members of the
committee of whom there were number
of New York, Rodenberg of Illinois and
Howell of Utah.