Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-07
AT THE WHITE HOUSE
President Views Senator
clark's Collection of Paintings.
RABBls THANK PRESIDENT
He Accepts Some Handsomely En-
crossed Resolutions.
MIR. ARBUCKLE FIGHTS A FINE
Imposed by Navigation Authorities
A Naturalization Bill Discussed.
Several Conferences Held.

j President Roosevelt. accompanied by Sem
ator Clark of Montana, visited the Cor
coran Art Gallery today to obtain view
OF, the Montana senator's collection of
paintings. The President is fond of art
studies and, as he desired to obtain IA
vorable view OF the paintings which have
| been collected during many years and
from all parts of the world by Senator
| Clark. he embraced the opportunity to see
the collection under the escort OF Senator
| Clark himself.
The Montana senator made the collection
for the adornment of his mansion in New
York AS his New York home is not yet
ready for occupancy, he has loaned the col
lection of paintings to the Corcoran Art
| Gallery. The collection consists OF about
| sixty paintings. 1t contains works Of the
greatest OF the worlds masters. its in
| trinsic value being many hundreds of thou
sands OF dollars.
/ Next Friday a private view of the col
lection. which is in one of the large rooms
! Of the gallery. will be afforded Admis-
| sion to this view will be strictly by card.
| On Saturday the collection will be thrown
| open to the public.
| Rabbis Thank the President.
| Simon Wolf, head of the B'Nai BIRTH,
| presented to the President Rabbis Kraus-
| kopf of Philadelphia; Gutmacher of Balti-
| more and Simon of this city, together with
Herman +. Hahn, president of the United
| Hebrew Charities of Chicago The three
| rabbis constitute a committee appointed by
| the national conference of rabbs to pres
ent suitable resolutions OF congratdlation
| on the Presidents efforts for peace. The
resolutions, handsomely engrossed, were
accepted by the President, with expressions
of appreciation.
Arbuckle Fights a Fine
| John Arbuckle, the New York coffee mer-
| chant whose charitable work among poor
girls and struggling young men is well
| known. called on President Roosevelt to-
| day to appeal from alleged unfair fine
| imposed by the navigation service by rea-
son of some minor deficiency in the tug
| boat John Wise which is used by Mr. Ar
| buckle in conveying patrons 10 his ship,
| the Jacob A. Stamler. The fine was an
unfair one" said Mr.. Arbuckie in speaking
| of the case. The President gave Mr.. Ar
| buckle a personal note to Commissioner
| Chamberlain asking the latter to look into
| the matter and see what could be done. re-
| marking that Mr.. Arbuckle was engaged in
charitable work and spending a great deal
| of money. Mr. Arbuckle is preparing to put
| in operation the Stamler, which the city au-
! thorites permit to be locked at a nominal
| sum. The Stamler will be used until sum-
| mer as boarding house, at which work
ing girls that poor will be charged 81
| per week for board and lodging In the
summer time the same boat will be used to
convey working girls to sea on Saturday
| night, returning with them Monday morn
| Ing. During the other days Of the week
| the vessel Is used for poor women with
| sicky children. good dinner is served
| aboard the vessel for 10 cents.
The fine against Mr.. Arbuckle was $500
and he has been fighting it ever since it was
| imposed. He says that the government
officials in New York hamper his work more
than the city officials. who, since change
4 a. mi gfraf inn
A Distinguished Chinaman.
The President received visit this morn
| ing from Dr. F. F. Tong of Picking and
Shanghai. DR.. Tong is the special commits
| sioner appointed by the Chinese government
to investigate the commercial relations be-
tween the United States and China with
| instructions to report to the emperor as
to the best means of promoting the COM
mercial intercourse between the two coun-
tries.
Mr.. Tong was introduced to the Presi-
dent by Representative Allen of New Jer-
sey and was accompanied by w. H. Nc
Kay of the Mckay Engineering. Company.
The Chinese representative is making his
headquarters in New York at the present
time, but before he returns to his country
will visit all portions of the United States
particularly the south, where he will study
the cotton manufacturing conditions
President Roosevelt told DR.. Tong that he
was much interested In his work. DIR.
Tong will return to China some time next
summer or fall, after he has completed his
work. He has almost unlimited power in
carrying out his instructions.
A Naturalization Bill.
Representative Bennett of Kentucky, who
called at the White House this morning TO
talk over some matters of interest to his
district, informed the President that the
House subcommittee on naturalization, of
which he is a member. had agreed upon a
naturalization bill which will be offered to
the House shortly.
Representative Howell of New Jersey, and
provides for uniform naturalization law
in every state In the Union. Under the
present condition of affairs every state has
its own naturalization laws. If the COM
mittee bill is passed the law will be the
same in every Jurisdiction. All papers will
be issued from Washington, certificates of
citizenship issuing in consecutive order.
President Roosevelt has been intensely
interested in the naturalization question,
and expressed his delight to Mr.. Bennett
over the action of the committee. He Is
heartily in favor of the bill.
Several Conferences Today.
The President today had conferences with
several prominent republicans of the Senate,
including Vice President Fairbanks and
Senator spooner. They talked about mat
tiers connected with affairs in the Senate.
Senator Hemenway of Indiana presented
j. p, Goodrich. republican state chairman
of Indiana, and J. B. Healing, United States
attorney for that state. The President
talked with the visitors about politics in
Indiana. but the visit was largely personal.
Representative Tawney. chairman of the
House committee on appropriations, called
on the President this morning.
The President will give a dinner Friday
night to Chairman Cortelyou and the mem
bers OF the republican national executive
committee. number of those who served
In various positions with Chairman CorteI-I
you In the last campaign will be present
Including Assistant Postmaster General
Hitchcock. L. A. Coolidge and William +.
Stone of Baltimore.
A Pennsylvania Appointment.
After a conference today with Senator
Penrose of Pennsylvania the President an
nounced that he will appoint Griffith T.
Davis of Scranton as collector of internal
revenue for the twelfth Pennsylvania dis
trict in place of T. F. Penman-
A Caller at the State Department.
yiscount Charles de Chambrun. first sec
rotary OF the French embassy in this city.