Alaska sentinel., 1905-03-09
Samuel Sylvester, in Lewiston lMaine) Daily Sum-
 (Continued)

President Mckinley, to give me q aote of introduction to President Roosevelt. So 1 called at the vice
 residents room in the capitol and hen the usual formalities were
 trough with, l said Il have called 5n you to ask for note of intro
 action to the President.o
 The Hon. Wnl. P Frey told me s could not give it to me, and that ne President could not be bother l.
 l made a further request and told lim l had important business that wished to see tae President about ad ! should consider it a favor Ii le would give me note of intro ,aetion as 1 had never met the
 f.silent, and again 1 was told the resident could not be bothered. ad he could not give he what l .kal for. l then said: Well, senator, if you won't give me a let T Of introduction, l must get
 oas without l." whereupon he ave me the following, addressed to Ie President: MT. Sylvester inks he has important business .sh you. If you can spare a few a9ments Of your valuable time he Hul3 like for you to do so." Sign 2 l. Wm. P. Frey.
 When this was handed to me l
 il. T thank you, senator" and
 replied, Well, the President ont thank me"
 l said, You don't know whether ls will or not, perhaps he may be .ery glad to know what I may say him."
 With this note I went to the {hite House and on my way had ime to think of the poor ships that 5lld not sail on the waters of the nightly deep, and of their feelings
 ad the help that these poor ships ven some that had not been built 'ught to have from the people that
 hey might be happy in carrying ,omething from one place to anoth- r because some foreign ships were ,olng this-and these poor Ameri-
 an ships felt so bad because they fere not doing the same. We, the 1eople, ought to let them do it, ,nd pay enough so they can. even i the foreign ships would be hap 1y in doing it for nothing and il he foreign ships should do it for 10th ng, how bad We should feel. Then a thought of widows and or mans being robbed by those in au-
 hority, even citizens of the United tates, and how little were their feelings to be considered in compar- ison to the feelings of a great ship ,4at could not sail the world over. And then 1 thought of the widows
 ears because of the wrongs forced upon them; and of the tears of a senator because of poor ships.
 On arriving at the White House, he courteous door-keeper remeln- oered me, although it had been four months since my former call, and shook hands and called me by lame. l said, "I have called to ee the President and l have a note
 would like foryou to take to hin" " The door-keeper immediately re- urned and said the President wo'd zee me then, Upon being introduce d the President asked me to be 'eated-and after I had told my story, asked me what 1 would like or him to do. I said, Il would
 Ike for you to hurry up the Httor ley-General in the matter" l" and he 'ep,iel, T will do so," and then tsked his secretary to write 10 the Attorney-Gcneral and said to me, lou call on the Attorney-General tt such time and 1 will arrange for you to see him."
 1 said, Shall take your note
 o him?" Nc" the President re 9lied, q will see to it that he has it.o Upon my rising to leave, he arose from his chair and gave me a aearty hand-shaie and we wis,s' : each other the parting Good day"
 At the Department of Justice 1 was promised as before, that our examiner would soon be sent to l Aiaalo +O irvesfira "a 4Ia obarr,os I had made against Judge NJ C. Brown, and with assurance I again came to Maine.
 President Roosevelt, upon the return of Judge N. 4. Day, Acting Attsrney-General from Paris, where he wassent to arrange the final pa pers in the transfer of the Panama Canal to the United States, ap- pointed him to go to Alaska and find out the facts as to the doings of s11ch fadaral oticrrs as ba1 Joo,,