Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-07-07
Accepts Position rendered Aim by the
President, but Will Not Talk.
RETURNS TO OYSTER BAY
Special Train Arrives Ahead of Time and
Surprises the Family.
DlSPoSES OF WORK WHILE ON STEAMBOAT
Accumulated Correspondence is Dis
patched while Run L. Made from
Jersey City TO Long
Island City.

NEW YORK, July 6-It can be definitely
stated that President Roosevelt has offered
the position of secretary OF state to Elihu
Root and that Mr.. Root has accepted.
President Roosevelt will make an an
nouncement today regarding Elhu Roots
decision on the preferred offer to him Of the
office of secretary OF state. MIR. Root de-
clines to discuss the matter at all and re-
fuses to make any statement at the present
time for publication.
Mr.. Root boarded the special train Just
before it left for Cleveland Tuesday after
noon. All phases of the situation were
considered carefully, but at the time Mr.
Root did not indicate definitely that he
would accept the portfolio.
On the return journey their conference.
interrupted by the mission on which they
had gone to Cleveland was resumed. A
formal tender OF the secretaryship of state
was made to Mr.. Root His acceptance Of
the proffer announced In New York today
is believed to be without reservation at all.
OYSTER BAY, N. Y, July 6-After his
return from Cleveland this morning Presi-
dent Roosevelt passed a quiet afternoon
and evening at Sycamore Hill. He took a
horseback ride and played tennis, but re-
ceived no visitors. A story became current
in the village late in the day that Elihu
Root was to spend the night at Sycamore
Hill, but the only foundation for 1t was
that Mr.. Root had left New York to join
Mrs Root at their country home.
The president will leave oyster Bay at II
o'clock tomorrow morning for Ocean Grove,
N. j., where he will deliver an address In
the afternoon before the National Educa-
tional association. Immediately after de-
llvering the address the president will start
on his return trip to Oyster Bay. being
scheduled to arrive here at $50 p. m.
President Roosevelt and his Immediate
party arrived at oyster Bay on their return
from Cleveland at 1O:4S a. m, seven min
utes ahead of schedule time. The presi-
dents carriage, which was to have met
the train. had not arrived at the station
and the president entered a carriage with
Secretary Loeb The president had scarcely
gone 200 yards from the station when he
met Mrs. Roosevelt coming in an open cab
! for him. He stepped from Mr.. Loeb's car
riage and, entering the cab with Mrs
Roosevelt. drove directly to Sycamore Hill.
The trip from Philadelphia this morning.
after the cabinet members had left the train
| TO return to Washington was without in
cident. The president had as guests at
| breakfast former Secretary Elihu Root,
former Secretary Of the Navy Paul Morton.
Attorney General Moody and Secretary
Loeb. At Jersey City Mr.. Root, Mr.. Nor
| ton and Mr.. Moody left the president 8
party. Attorney General Moody will go to
Massachusetts, where he will spend his va
| cation. He will be absent from Washington
until about the first week in September.
| The trip of the president and his immedi-
ate party from Jersey City to Long Island
! { ty was made on the Pennsylvania rail-
road tug Lancaster. On the trip around
Manhattan the president and Secretary
Loeb were engaged in disposing OF mass
OF official correspondence A crowd OF sew
| eral hundred people had assembled at the
Long Island station e..d extended to the
president very cordial greeting