Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-29
At THE WHITE HOUSE
Porto Rican Citizens Enter
Protest.
NOT AT ALL SATISFIED
WITH APPLICATION OF SECTION
12, FORAKER ACT.
President to Go to Brooklyn Tonight
Extra Session After No
vember Elections.
NOT AT ALL SATISFIED

The Porto Ricans are asking for a greater
measure Of self-government than they now
have, and they are taking the question of
their rights direct to the President, be-
lieving that he will do them justice. Tulio
Larrinaga, the resident commissioner of
Porto Rico, saw the President today and
talked with him. The President asked that
Mr.. Larrinaga submit his ideas and argu-
ments in writing, and said he would be glad
to consider them The Porto Rican COM
missioner talked this way:
I'VE, the Porto Ricans, are not at all sat
isfed with the feature of the Foraker act
which provides that the upper house, called
the executive council, shall be formed of
eleven members appointed by the Presi-
dent of the United States. We wish the
Foraker act to be amended to make that
body elective. But even Objectionable as
that feature of the act is, the act itself is
more liberal in it's spirit than 1t has been
made to appear in its application to our
people Section IL of the act provides that
out of the eleven members appointed by the
President at least five must be natives
During the five years of civil government
about twenty different appointments have
been made, in filling the other six places
by Americans, and not once has native
been appointed to increase the minimum of
five. This the natives greatly resent and
are protesting against through every chan
mel open to them
President in New York Tomorrow.
President Roosevelt will be the guest of
the citizens of Brooklyn tomorrow-Me-
mortal day. He will deliver an address at
the unwilling of the statue of Gen Henry
w. Slocum, will review the Memorial day
parade of the veterans of the civil and
Spanish-American wars, and. if he should
have time, will visit the Naval Y. NJ c. A
at the Brooklyn navy yard. AT Lie I'm. he
will leave Jersey City for Washington.
The President will make the trip in a
special car attached to a regular Pennsyl-
vania railroad train leaving Washington
soon after midnight. He will arrive at
Jersey City about o'clock tomorrow morn
ing. A committee of the Union League
Club of Brooklyn will meet the President
and his party at Jersey City and escort
them to the club house, where breakfast
will be served. The President will hold
brief reception after the breakfast In the
party besides the President will be Secre
tary Loeb, NJ. A. Latta, the Presidents
personal stenogra pher, and the usual secret
service officers and White House attaches.
At the conclusion of the Union League
Club reception, about $50 am, the Presi-
dent will be escorted to the Slocum statue,
at Eastern Parkway and Bedford avenue,
where he will deliver an address. Mayor
Mcclellan of New York also will speak at
the ceremony. The President then will re-
view the Memorial day parade. Before he
returns to Jersey City the President, If
time should permit, will visit the naval
branch of the Y. NJ. c. A at the Brooklyn
navy yard, where he may deliver a brief
address.
Extra Session Will Be Late.
1t is almost a foregone conclusion now that
the extra session of Congress, if there is
one, will be called to meet after the No
vember election and that the date, will be
somewhere about Monday, November -.
That the President is still inclined in favor
of an extra session seems also to be GER
tainty.
ginning in November would be to organize
and begin business" said Representative
Grosvenor of Ohio, who White House
caller. THE next House will be somewhat
complicated by reason of the large number
of republicans and the great scarcity of
cation of the House under the circum-
stances will not be an easy task. Three
weeks before the time for the regular ses-
sion would be decidedly valuable and would
give a start to the business of Congress
that would be felt throughout the regular
session"
Senator Foraker was another Ohio man
who spent some time with the President
Senator Kittredge of South Dakota Rep
resentative Slayden of Texas and Represen-
tative Wanger of Pennsylvania saw and
talked with the President.
Maurice O'Connell, solicitor of the treas
ury, presented to the President Mr.. and
Mrs. Clibborn Hill of Ireland, Mr.. Hill hav-
ing represented the department of agricul-
ture of Ireland at the St. Louis exposition.
I'VE found that the President knew as
much about Ireland as We did,, said Mr..
Hill