Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-02
At THE WHITE HOUSE
Rush of Visitors Interferes
With Business.
RESTRICTING THE LIST
CABINET OFFICERS AND CON-
GREssMEN ONLY SEEN.
Several of These, However, Brought
Friends for Presentation-Rough
Riders Are Disappointed.

| There was such rush of visitors to the
| White House this morning that the trans
| action of public business by the President
was interfered with, and Secretary Loeb
had to send word out to the doorkeepers to
cut short the admissions, restricting the list
| to cabinet members, senators and repre-
sentatives, and those having urgent BUSH
ness. This was done after 1870 O'clock.
| Strangers arriving in the city have begun
to hunt up their representatives and ask to
| be presented to the President, with the re-
| suit that the first callers during the morn
1 ing consisted of senators and representa-
| tives with string of constituents. Sena-
| tors Lodge and Crane of Massachusetts,
| had a large number of prominent men
| from that state with them, including ]. N.
| Peterson, mayor of Salem. and F. w.
| Brophy, a member of the state democratic
| executive committee Senator Reed Smoot
| of Utah presented Mrs. Smoot and her SIS
| ter, Miss Eldredge of Salt Lake, and Rep
| resentative Sutherland of Utah had some
| friends with him. Senators Dolliver and
kearns and Representatives Bede, Gros-
| venor, Hughes, Kinkaid William Alden
Smith and others likewise introduced
friends.
Many callers not accompanied by sena-
tors and representatives walked into the
| executive OHCeS 10 see II tlere was 0pp0r-
tunity to meet the President. There was
regret that the President did not have time
| to see and exchange greetings with most of
them, but he was unusually busy, and this
was appreciated by the callers. The closing
| OF Congress, with the rush of small details
and bills, the sending of the bills to various
departments for reference the signing of
others, hundred other things, kept every
minute of the Presidents time well en-
gagged.
Some of the congressional callers dis
cussed the status of legislation, and the
best way to succeed in accomplishing some
or the Things that now appear to be hope
lessly lost.
Sir Mortimer Durand, the ambassador of
Great Britain presented to the President
three Canadian ladies, who have come on
to attend the inauguration.
Rough Riders Are Disappointed.
Several Rough Riders were at the White
House during the morning. They appeared
to desire to lodge big kick with the Pres
ident or Secretary Loeb as to the assign
ment of horses for them on Saturday.
Just think of it!' one of them said in a
mournful sort of way. 1--WE are to be
given artillery horses to ride during the
parade Saturday. Now, If it had been cav
airy horses there would have been no kick
Cavalry animals do pretty well when you
can't get your own ponies. They are ac-
customed to music and noise, and all that
sort of stuff, and have some life in them
But just think of riding an artillery horse.
about the most docile creature on earth I
suppose we will have to stand for It,
though, but many a man will be heart
broken over it. All the cavalry horses
seem seer t to have been given over to troopers
and others and we are left out. My, but
some of us do wish we had brought on our
own ponies like the cowboys"
The Presidents Salary.
Representative Grosvenor said today that
the point of order made In the House yes
terday by Representative Baker against an
increase In the salary of the President in
the future would not apply to an amend
ment coming to the House from the Senate
II do not know what is the intention in the
Senate in this matter" said Gen. Gros-
venor. but If that body which has not
yet acted on the sundry civil bill, sees tit
to put on an amendment providing for the
increase In salary, no point of order in the
House will apply. l know good many rep
resentativeS who hope this will be done so
that the House may have an opportunity of
voting the increase"
President Roosevelt today signed the
army appropriation bill This is the second
of the large appropriation bills signed by
him SO far, showing how backward legisla-
ton is. The other was the legislative, ex-
ecutive and judicial bill The District of
Columbia appropria ton bill had not reach
ed the White House at 1 o'clock this after
noon. number of local bills have not
reached the White House, but are expected
this afternoon and tomorrow morning.
The Beef Inquiry Report.
The report of Commissioner Garfield in
the matter of the investigation of the beef
trust will be sent to Congress tomorrow.
The investigation was conducted most care
fully and the facts will prove most interest
ing.
Congress has created new judicial dis
trict in Illinois, and there will be some new
offices to dispose of. The present officers
of the southern district of Illinois will be
put into the new district and new officers
will be appointed in the southern district.
Representative Prince of Illinois called on
the President to urge the appointment of
State Senator l.. A. Townsend of Galesburg
marshal of the southern district Sena-
tors Cullom and Hopkins have not made
any recommendations, but will do so later.
His Views as to a Delegate
|. Senator Plat of Connecticut, who has
been opposing the bill providing for a dele
gate in Congress from Alaska, said at the
White House that he is not making a pro-
test to any one. but that he does not believe
in delegate 1t is all nonsense to talk
about delegate being elected by the people
of Alaska he said. The country is such
a large and covers much ground
that is unsettled that 1 doubt if salts
factory election could be held at this time
l think that the territory might be given
an agent or commissioner, appointed by the
President whose duty it would be to look
after the interests of the people in Con-
gress and the departments" The bill for a
delegate has passed the House and is
in the Senate. In fact, it twice passed the
House.
Delegate Mcguire of Oklahoma talked to
the President about some patronage to be
disposed of in case Oklahoma and Indian
Territory admitted to statehood as one
state.