Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-10-06
BACK IN THE CAPITAL
PRESIDENT AND FAMILY RETURN
FROM OYSTER BAY.
Citizens of Washington Welcome Him
Executive Is in Robust Health :
Will Immediately Take Up Numerous
Problems of Government.
Washington correspondence:

and their three younger children,
Ethel, Quentin and Archibald, return
ed to Washington from Oyster Bay
Saturday evening. The President was
browner and apparently lustier after
his summer on Long Island than when
he returned from hunting bears in
Colorado last spring.
He was a picture of physical health
and strength. The swimming, boating,
horseback riding and camping out,
with which he diversified the routine
Of his life at Sycamore Hill, have con-
ditioned him to Il degree that will rem
der his prospective labors compare
lively easy.
The Presidents reception by the
people of Washington was decorously
but none the less sincerely enthusiasts
tic. Washington loves all Presidents.
1t never neglects an opportunity to
pay homage to Whomsoever happens
to be the occupant of the White House.
1t is not an eXaggeratio to say,
however, that President Roosevelt oc-
cupies Il warmer place in the hearts
Of the residents of the capital city
than his predecessors. They like him
for his youth, his audacity, his initia-
tive and last, but not least, his willing
ness to be a good neighbor. Their adj
miration for him visibly increased
after the successful elimination of
the peace negotiations at Portsmouth,
and Saturday nights monster recep-
ton was undoubtedly due in part to
a desire to pay tribute to him for hav-
Ing initiated that act in behalf Of
peace.
Fifty Thousand Cheer His Arrival.
Perhaps $4,000 men and women
nue., between 9th street and the White
House. In any other city than Wash
ington, where civic pomp and page
antry are on display nearly all the
time, such an assemblage would have
been provocative of a crush. Here.
however, the police have a method Of
maintaining order that is as effective
as it is admirable.
The White House was reached about
GAO o'clock and the President, after
shaking hands with the various at
tendants who were congregated I'M
der the porte-cochere, went in. Mrs.
Roosevelt appeared to be as pleased
as her husband again to get into touch
with her servants and cordially shook
all their hands.
The President said he was glad to
return to Washington and Washington
seemed equally glad that he had re-
turned. The absence of the chief eX-
ecutiye and Congress combined from
the national capital, involving as it
does an almost complete cessation Of
executive and legislative business, eX"
cept that of the most routine charac~
ter produces a void which can only
be appreciated by those who have to
exist in the characterless atmosphere
The President said he would settle
down to work, taking up in their order
all of the numerous problems of gov
eminent which are now pending b
fore him. One of the first things he
will do will be to appoint new pub
lie printer.
The Panama Canal with it's multi
plicity Of important details, will Oc-
cupy much of the Presidents time
a1Sl attention. After the commission
of international engineers returns to
Washington from an inspection of the
physical problems presented by the
route which has been selected the
President will make up his mind as
to whether Congress will be required
to provide for lock canal or q sea-
level canal.
He will take up the Cars PROPOSE
ton to reconvene The Hague tribunal
and select those American citizens
who will represent the United States
there Also he will begin immediate
ly the preparation of his annual mes
sage to Congress, which will contain
among other things his views on the
question Of railway rate legislation. SO
far as can be ascertained the Presi-
dent has not materially altered the
views which he expressed in his last
| message on this subject.
It is known, however, that he is dis
posed to believe that legislation more
liberal in it's bearing upon the rail
ways than the Esch-Townsend bill can
and ought to be devised. This subject
will be thoroughly thrashed out be-
tween now and the time the message
Is ready for submission to Congress.
All of the Senators and Representa-
tives whose committee assignments in
vest them with special powers and du-
ties in connection with railroad legis-
lation will present their individual
views to the President. They will tell
him what, in their judgment, can be
done and what is impossible, and urge,
in behalf of everybody concerned, that.
he avoid lending himself to the unrea-
sonable clamor of professional lobby
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