The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-11-05
READY FOR THE
TRIP TO PANAMA
President Roosevelt Expects to
Start as Soon as Election
Is Over.
BRIEF VISIT AT SAN JUAN
BATTLESHIP AND TWO CRUISERS
DETAILED.

The elections next Tuesday Will be
national in scope. Besides the selec-
ton of a national house of representa-
tives, nearly every state in the Union
will choose its governor or other state
officials. In all, votes will be cast in
forty-two states and three territories.
In twenty-five states the legislatures to
be chosen will elect United States SEN
ators
President Roosevelt will go 10 Oyster
Bay to vote Tuesday morning and i'm
mediately afterward will return to
Washington to board the naval yacht
Mayflower, which is TO take him to
point off Wolf Trap light, where he
will embark on the battleship Louisiana
for his trip to Porto Rico and Panama.
The president will be accompanied by
Mrs Roosevelt, Surgeon General P NJ.
Rixey OF the navy NJ. c. Latta, the
presidents assistant secretary, and
Lieutenant Frank I. Evans, son Of
Rear Admiral Robley j. Evans, who
viii act as the presidents aide.
Grand Reception Planned.
| The president expects to reach Colon
/ been prepared for the entertainment Of
the presidential party while in the canal
zone territory, after which a brief visit
will be made to San Juan, Porto Rico.
/ Nov. %. the return of the party TO
Washington being scheduled for Nov.
/ q. The Louisiana will be escorted by
/ the armOred cruisers Washington and
/ Tennessee. The officers quarters of the
| Louisiana have undergone q complete
Encouragement, and it is the intention
\ of the navy department to make it pos
sible for the president 10 be in touch
with Washington by wireless telegra-
ply every day he is at sea One in
! teresting feature of the presidents visit
/ to the canal zone will be his inspection
of the Culebra cut, which is set for the
/ 10Th. On this tour of inspection he will
/ be accompanied by Chairman Shonts
and Chief Engineer Stevens. An entire
1 day will be spent in viewing this diff
cult section of the canal which has
/ presented some OF the most serious
/ problems in the great work.
important Meeting Today.
i An important meeting affecting the
! relations between the railroads and
their switchmen will be held in Chica-
/ go on Monday At this conference the
switchmen VIII present TO the road
arrangements a request for the eight
hour day, but ii is not expected that
this demand will be insisted upon abso-
lutely. However. the switchmen are
not satisfied with the railroads propo-
sition to increase wages 2 cents an
hour, and will try to secure a better
offer in this respect The outcome of
the Chicago conference probably will
govern relations between switchmen
and their employers throughout the
country.
The meeting Nov of the national
assembly at Cettinje will mark the be-
ginning of the parliamentary system of
government Tor Montenegro. which was
proclaimed by Prince Nicholas Dec. 10
last.
French Parliament.
The French parliament, which adj
journed Oct. %, owing to the incom-
pleteness of the ministerial declaration,
will reasSemble today. The parlia-
mentary program of the new Clemen-
ceau cabinet is understood to include
the purchase OF railroads and mines bv
the state, reform in the system OF
courts-martial, abolition Of the death
penalty, a scheme for an income tax.
complete enforcement of the church
and state separation law and the crea-
ton of state monopoly of petroleum
and alcohol. A continuation of the plea
of the Countess de Castellane for abso-
lutte divorce from her husband, Count
Boni, and the custody of their children.
will be presented before the tribunal of
first instance of the Seine at Paris by
Maitre Cruppi, counsel for the countess
Nov. T. after which the defense of
Count Boni will be heard.