Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1906-11-30
presidential WORK
ROOSEVELT RESUMES DUTIES
AFTER PANAMA TRIP.
MESSAGE FOR CONGRESS
Special Report on Journey to Be Sent
to Lawmakers-chlsf Executive
Will Also Recommend Citizen
ship for Porto Ricans.

Washington. - After many months
of dullness the wheels OF gov.
eminent business started Tuesday
with dizzy acceleration. Perhaps the
ginger noticeable was due to Presi-
dent Roosevelt's return. He was at
his desk early, bronzed and invigora.
ted In health from his long sea trip
to Panama and Porto Rico. Secretary
Loeb took to him q large amount Of
correspondence which had accumula-
ted since the presidents departure
and was with him up to the time Of
the cabinet meeting.
For Special Message TO Panama.
Much of the time of the cabinet
session was taken up by the presi-
dents account Of his trip to Panama
and Porto Rico. His special message
on the Panama canal, 1t is expected.
will be sent to congress probably
about a week after 1t convenes Mon.
day. The document will give q
graphic and detailed description of
conditions on the isthmus as the pres.
ident found them. There will be re-
Communications for the betterment of
conditions which suggested themselves
during his visit.
All the members were present at the
meeting for the first time since the be-
ginning Of the political campaign.
Daughter Ethel Greets Parents.
The Mayfiower arrived at the Wash
ington navy yard at 10:40 o'clock Mon
day night after having received the
president and his party from the bat
tleship Louisiana at the mouth Of the
Potomac river.
! The instant the gang plank was
thrown out Miss Ethel Roosevelt, who
had been waiting at the wharf, rushed
over it eagerly and reached the deck
Just in time to meet her father as he
came from below. There was moth
ling conventional about the young girls
greeting to the president. When she
was through with showing her father
how glad she was to see him back.
Miss Ethel dashed down below to
greet her mother.
Mr.. Roosevelt said he had had an
enjoyable time and was deeply i'm.
pressed with the United States navy,
with Panama and Porto Rico.
Citizenship Due Porto Rieans.
Washington. = The president be-
lieves the people of Porto Rico are en-
titled to American citizenship and will
recommend that this be granted to
them, in a special message to con-
gress. The president has expressed
the opinion that 1t is lamentable that
they do not .now enjoy this right. In
this connection he noted that, al
though Porto Rico had sent a delegate
to the Pan-American congress at Rio
Janeiro, that delegate could not even
say he was an American citizen, and
this is also the case II he visits Eu-
rope or any other foreign country.
The president was very much
pleased with his visit to Porto Rico,
which he says is fine country, is
prosperous and her government an
excellent one. The people. he says,
are prosperous.
With but two exceptions. the presi-
dent Tuesday expressed his complete
satisfaction with the condition Of af-
fairs on the isthmus Of Panama as dis
closed during his three days. inspec-
ton of the work in progress there.
One Of the exceptions, the president
told his callers, related to the sanitary
feature of the quarters for bachelor
negro laborers, and this, he pointed
out, under ordinary circumstances,
will have been adjusted within very
short time. The president expressed
himself as impressed with the magni-
tude Of the undertaking at Panama
and Of the way in which it is being
carried out.