Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-13
PRESIDENT HAS BUSY DAY
Holds Conference with Senator Knox, but
Subject is Not Announced
ADDRESS TO PHYSICIANS ASSOCIATION
Chief Executive Talks of sanitary
Problems in PRnamR-Discusses
Chinese Exclusion with
Labor Leaders.


Knox of Pennsylvania, former attorney
general. held long and important confer
ence with the president last night at Saga
| more Hill. The senator by invitation OF
| the president was an overnight guest OF
| Mr. Roosevelt. The conference, which was
| continued until a late hour, covered a
| wide range OF subjects, but it can be said
| related to one matter in particular which
i is Of profound professional and oficial
| concern to the president. No statement
was made about the result of the confer
| ence. Senator Knox, who left oyster Bay
| on a morning train for New York, de-
| clined to discuss for publication the result
of his interview with the president. 1t is
| not unlikely that he may go from New
| York to Washington, although he had not
| determined when he left here whether It
! would be necessary for him to go to Wash
! ington. II, after communication with
| Washington by telephone from New York,
he should find 1t unnecessary to go TO the
capital, he will proceed direct to his home
at Valley Forge.
! 1t is regarded here as not improbable that
! other sensational developments may grow
out of the leak in the cotton report which
Secretary Wilson of the Department of
| Agriculture is investigating. In fact,
! by direction of the president Secre-
| eo'iS W 10 GblluuClluB lne inquiry along
his own lines with determination to sift
the matter to the bottom. AS heretofore
indicated in these dispatches, Attorney
General Moody will determine finally
whether criminal prosecutions are to be in
stituted by the government against any of
the alleged conspirators
President Talks to Doctors.
President Roosevelt delivered a notable
address this afternoon before the Associ-
ated Physicians of Long Island. He lis
| cussed in the course of his speech the te-
| lations physicians sustained with the people
of the communities in which they reside
and the work to be done by the medical ex-
perts in connection with the construction OF
| the Panama canal, declaring that despite
all difficulties on the isthmus and here in
the United States the canal would be
success He referred to achievements Of
the sanitary engineers who cleaned the
cities of Cuba for the first time in 400 years
Attired in suit of rough linen and wear
ing broad-brimmed Panama hat, the pres
ident arrived at the Oyster Bay High
school, where the meeting was held, at S15
p. m. He was escorted to the assembly
hall, where he accorded a cordial re-
ception by the physicians, all standing.
At the conclusion of the presidents ad-
dress and at Mr.. Roosevelt's own sugges-
ton, an informal reception was held, each
member of the association being presented
| to the president
The presidents address, In part follows:
The scientific man who is really first
class scientific man has claim upon The
gratitude of all the country The man who
Is the first class neghbor and is always
called In time Of trouble by his neighbors
has an equal claim upon society at large
But the doctor has both claims Yet in
addition to filling both OF these functions
have served in the civil war, he may have
rendered the greatest possible service to
the community along dozen different lines
Take for instance just what is being done
In one OF the great works Of this country at
the present time-digging the Panama
canal That is a work that only a big ma
ton could undertake or that a big nation
could do, and 1t is a work for all man
success in that work is having the proper
type of medical work as preliminary.
Now the people who flee from Panama
the people who flee from the forefront Of
battle carry to the rear with them. The
people to whom this country owes and
will owe so much are those who stay down
there and do not talk, but do their work
and do It well: OF course, in doing a
great work like that in the tropics. in a re-
gion which until this government took
hold Of 1t, was accounted to be a region
exceptionally unhealthy, are going to
heye trouble have some yellow fever, have
good deal Of malarial fever and
suffer more from the latter than from the
yellow fever, although we will hear nothing
like the talk about 1t. We will have every
now and then troubles as regards hygiene,
just as we will have trouble in the engi-
neering problems. Just as occasionally
we will have troubles in the administrative
work Whenever one Of these troubles
excellent but timid men who will at once
say what an awful calamity 1t is, and
express the deepest sorrow and concern
and be rather inclined to the belief that
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we shall treat every little check not as a
reason for abandoning the work, but as
plans so as to make 1t impossible that that
particular check shall happen again.
Conference with Labor Leaders.
immigration to the United States and its
relation to the labor problem formed the
subject of a conference this afternoon be-
tween the president and two Of the i'm
portant leaders of organized labor, Samuel
GOmpers OF Washington and James Duncan
of Quincy, Mass respectively the presi-
dent and one of the vice presidents of the
American Federation Of Labor.
The conference was devoted particularly
to a consideration Of the order recently is
sued by the president regarding the en-
forcement of the Chinese exclusion law.
An impression had been gained by many
members OF labor organizations that the
| order to an extent at least let down i'm
} migration bars so far as Chinese are con-
cerned. The president assured his callers,
however, that no such construction properly
could be placed on the order and that he
was just as vigorously opposed to the ad-
mission to this country OF Chinese coolies
as they could be.
Mr. Gompers urged upon the president the
desirability for an intelligent, practical and
humane consideration OF the general ques-
! ton of immigration by the people and by
congress. The people Of the country and
OF the whole civilized world are entitled he
maintained. TO such a consideration OF the
problem.
statement of Mr.. GOmPerr
After the conference Mr.. Gompers said
We directed the presidents attention TO
thu Interpretation placed by some persons
upon his recent order, issued at the in
! stance of the American Asiatic association,
States ~ Chinese. BY many OF our people
and b. many Chinese that order was looked
upon as a letting down OF the immigrat ton
, | bars so far the Chinese are concerned.
The president assured us that no proper
reading Of the order would warrant such
= an Interpretation and that nothing was
further from his intention than that such
an impression should be gotten from the
order His determination is that both
: skilled and unskllled Chinese labOrers shall
be excluded from the United States and he
saws that the law will be rigidly enforced
The order related 10 the sO-called exempt
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