Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-18
At THE WHITE HOUSE
Conference With Secretary Taft
and Assistant Secretary Bacon.
TAlN NM Nll0AM AcchlDC
TALK ON CUBAN AFFAIRS
Everything Apparently Satisfactory
and Likely to Remain So.
PRESIDENT GOING TO PANAMA
Immediately After the November
Elections@Senator Knox Confers
on Standard Oil Suits.

Secretary Taft's long talk with President
| Roosevelt this morning was unproductive
of newspaper material worth consideration.
Mr.. Taft said that he had done all the talk
ing he thought necessary on the subject of
Cuba. He had expressed a hope in salts
factory results coming out Of affairs there,
and that epitomized the situation as he
saw it. +
Accompanied by Assistant Secretary Ba-
con of the State Department, who went to
| and returned from Cuba with him, Secre-
| tary Taft visited the White House at 10
o'clock, remaining until after II. He said
that number Of questions had come up
for consideratton-so many. in fact that he
was unable to report upon decisions being
| reached In any. He would have further
talks with, the President; in fact, he is ex-
| pected to have another talk in the after
noon. when affairs in Cuba and War De-
partment; business will be gone over again.
=, Secretary Taft was asked many .ques-
| lions about his probable movements in the
| next few weeks. AS to whether he would
make any speeches during the campaign,
and did not know what he would do At
the, same time. it Is understood that he
! VII! make several speeches, and that one
| or TWO or them will be in his own state
| OHIO. Republicans there are insistent that
ne make at least one speech. If no more.
The demand does not come from the or
ganlZation with strong clamOr. but is
from personal friends and admirers. The
| last time the Secretary of War made a
| speech in his home state he Is credited with
having elected democrat governor. and
! with having crushed the Cincinnati polit-
| ical boss, Cox.
| President Going to Panama.
b! One result of the conference with Sec
rotary Taft this morning is the renewed
determination of the President to visit the
isthmian canal Immediately after the Mo-
| vember election. This clearly indicates
| the belief of the President and Secretary
| Taft that Cuba will remain satisfied with
| existing conditions for some time to come.
| and that the chief executive can leave the
country-the first President who ever did
| without fear Of troubles arising during his
| absence. Without assurances from Secre-
| tary Taft that everything would turn out
all right the President would remain In
| Washington.
| According to the present plans. if they
| are not now altered, the President Will go
to Oyster Bay to vote November =. he
| will take a war vessel for Panama either
| in New York or in day or so after re-
turning here. He will spend fifteen or
| twenty days on the isthmus, investigating
| the progress Of the work OF digging the
canal and finding out just what arrange
| ments have been made for pushing the
work after 1t is started with the vigor he
hopes to see put into 1t later on
| The President is said the have been IN
vited to stop in Trenton November D, on
his way to oyster Bay, to witness the
production of Upton Sinclair,s Jungle"
| MI Knox in Conference,
| Senator Knox Of PENNSYLVANIA, former
Attorney General. followed Secretary Taft
In conference with the President. Mr..
Knox is understood to be giving his advice
to the Department Of Justice as to the best
method of proceeding against the Standard
| Oil trust.
| The department has been waiting a num-
| her of months to determine just what 1t
| ought to do. Special attorneys-three of
| the best in the country-have been obtain
| ing testimony against the big trust, ana
several other officials. headed by Assistant
| Attorney General Purdy, have been busily
| engaged in digesting the material turned
In Attorney General Moody has been re-
ceiving the returns from all those under
| him. and in turn has been discussing the
| whole thing with the President. Senator
| Knox has now been called in. His work
| must be gratuitous. as. under the laws, he
cannot be paid fee while drawing sal
| airy from the government as senator. 1t
| Is believed, however, that the Presidents
| anxiety to prepare the case against the
| Standard with unusual care led him to ask
| the Pennsylvania senator to aid In getting
| the case arranged in It's preliminary form.
| It Is quite certain that the case against
| the Standard will not be launched until all
| Of the ablest legal advice at the command
| Of the President has been fully consulted
The Pennsylvania Campaign.
Senator Knox is to deliver one speech in
1 the Pennsylvania campaign. That will be
\ at Pittsburg on the 9th of this month. On
| tho Goth he will preside at a big meeting
In Philadelphia. at which Attorney General
Moody will be the principal speaker. The
| participation Of Mr.. Moody in the Pennsyl-
| vania campaign Is regarded by many as
significant of the desire of the administra-
ton to aid in the election Of the regular
| ticket. Mr.. Moody's relations to the Presi-
dent are so peculiar, his Difference to the
President in such matters so thoroughly
understood. that his going into Pennsyl-
vania is generally regarded as meaning
| that the President is in sympathy with the
| regular ticket and opposed to the indie
pendent-democratic candidate, Mr.. Emery.
| In the hot fight Of two years ago in Phila-
delphia and elsewhere the President would
! not go into Pennsylvania either personally
| or by letter: neither would he consent to
| any of his cabinet officers doing SO. Mr..
| Moody, however. Is to talk under the aus
pices of the republican congressional COM
| mittee
| Senator Knox expressed the opinion to-
| day that while the fight in Pennsylvania
| would be a close one, he expected the regu-
| lar republican ticket to win. The pros
poets for the success of the ticket were
getting brighter each day. and republicans
| now felt pretty sanguine as to the ultimate
result.
Invited to a Banquet.
A formal invitation to attend the banquet
| to be given In honor of the SEVENTEEN
| birthday of Simon Wolf Of this city on the
! Goth OF this month was extended the Presi-
| dent today by Rabbi Simon, Rabbi Stern
! and A. D. Prince. The President said that
while he would be greatly Pleased to honor
| Mr. Wolf, he would not be able to break
| rule he had made as to such things. There
| fore he could not attend.
A committee of Grand Army men from
Baltimore composed of Maj. Fred C. Tarr,
| Col. John Taylor. Capt William Stahl and
DR.. Graham. called on the President and
Secretary Bonaparte thanking the former
| for announcing that he would reappoint
Capt. John r. King pension agent In this
city, and Secretary Bonaparte for recon-
mending Capt. Kings reappointment
Indoor Tennis League.
| BOSTON, October 18.-Announcement