Evening star., 1905-11-10
At THE White HOUSE
Tammany's Tactics in the
Recent Election.
A SOUTHERNER'S VIEW
NEVER SAW ANYTHING TO EQUAL
THE INTIMIDATION PRAcTICED.
Prospective Vacancy in the Usage In
dian Agency-Consular Service I'm
provement Urged by President.

HeS talk ABOUT Ill treatment of negroes
in the south on election day." said ex-Sen-
ator McLaurfn of South Carolina, who
called on the President today but there
never was anything in the south, even in
the most bitter days of partisan and race
hatred, to compare with what l saw in
New York election day. l took an automo-
bile and went down Sth avenue, then across
to the East Side. If | had been a voter
In New York would have cast my suffrage
In the morning against Hearst. If / had
been allowed vote at o'clock in the
afternoon, after witnessing intimda ton,
smuggling, threats and every ether known
expedent to prevent men voting for Hearst
/ should have cast my ballot for Hearst,
l was never more disgusted in all my life,
never felt greater sympathy for man than
for Hearst, after seeing these things New
York papers do not want to talk about the
negro not getting what is coming to him
In the south. The treatment he gets there,
even in the heat of politics, is paradise
compared to what / saw some of the Hearst
voters get in New York.
Mr.. McLaurin said the recent V sit of the
President to the south had made the south
ern people like him very much. IF the
negro question could be eliminated the
south would vote for Roosevelt for Presi-
dent" he went on, "and may do so anyhow.
He is exceedingly popular there"
Judge Emory Speer of Georgia was a
caller at the White House today. He talk
ed with the President about matters in the
south. The President has had a number
or callers from the south recently
The Usage Indian Agency.
The appointment of Capt. Frank Frantz,
former captain of Rough Riders, as gov
ernor of Oklahoma, in place of Gov. Fer
guson, which is to be announced soon,
will create a vacancy in the best Indian
agency In the west. Capt Frantz is now
agent of the Usage Indians. They are the
richest Indians in the world, no member
of the tribe being worth less than many
thousands of dollars and running all the
way up to millions, in both lands and
money. In the last Congress Delegate
Mcclure of Oklahoma introduced a bill
providing for the distribution of the vast
wealth of the Usage tribe upon per
capita basis, but opposition deyeloned
and the bill was not passed. Capt. Frantz
is understood to favor the proposed dis
tr1bution. and it is probable the same bill
Will be introduced at the coming session
of Congress. In case of this distribution
a heavy responsibility will be placed upon
the Usage agent, and the President will
delay the selection of new agent until
he has found man who Is thoroughly
competent to protect the interests of the
Indians.
Ret" Millard, who holds a clerkship at
the Usage agency, is said to be fayora bIy
regarded by Capt. Frantz who will prob
ably have much to do with naming his
own successor
Foreign Service Appointment.
The President today signed two orders
relative to appointments in the foreign serv-
Ice. One directs that all consuls who are
appointed must pass the examination that
Is now prescribed for consular officers re-
ceiving salaries of 81 500 or less. The other
order provides for an examina ton of secre-
taries of legations. who must understand
well. at least one. modern language
President Roosevelt continues to advocate
Improvement in the consular system of the
United States. 1t is probable that he will
present his views on this question at the
coming session of Congress at greater
length than he did in his last message.
when he announced that salaries should be
substituted for fees for consular officers
and that there should be a proper classiff-
cation, grading and transfer He did not
at mat time advocate competitive exami-
nations for consular positions, but he did
think that the law should provide that con-
sus should be familiar with the languages
OF the countries for which they apply, and
In addition should possess acquaintance
with the resources and business affairs of
the country.
E. Allen Frost general counsel, and Aus
tin A. Durham general secretary, of the
National Business League of Chicago,
talked with the President a short time ago
on the subject of consular reorganization.
The President again expressed his sympa-
thy with the efforts and desires of business
interests generally to make the consular
service a potent factor in the movement
to extend the trade of the United States In
the markets of the world, and the creation
of new markets for surplus products.
The imported bay trees that have deco
rated the east and west terraces of the
White House are being removed to be put
in winter quarters. The weather is getting
too cold for them to remain out All these
trees came from Holland. They cannot be
raised in the United States, but after they
are about three years old they Will live in
the United States under proper care.