The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-07-01
PRESIDENT AT TER CAPITOL.
SIGNS THE BILLS AND RESOLU.
TIONS PLACED BEFORE HIM.

AAVtND HLTNbD 0bF HH"s
sundry Civil, Meat inspection n Pure
Food Bills Approved Ia efuses TO Sign
sBtlis TO Remove Charges or Deaertion
Standing Against Army n Navy Men.
WASHINGTON, June 3d. President Roose-
welt spent nearly seven hours at the Capitol
to-day, and In spite Of the heat, tresome
waits and some hard work, he managed to
have a pretty enjoyable time Of 1t.
Following the custom Of nearly all his
predecessors Of going to the Capitol on the
last day Of o Congress session In order to
expedite his approval Of measures passed
at the eleventh hour, the President left the
White House In company with William
Loeb, Jr., his secretary, In time to get up
to the Senate just before noon. He went
directly to the Presidents room, just out
side the Senate chamber, and proceeded
at onoe to Sign the many bills and resolu-
tons that were placed before him. He
was Joined there by all the members Of his
Cabinet except Secretary Metcalf, and by
several Of the White House executive fofce.
When the news got around that the Presi-
don't was In the building, @ good many
POOpi1, AnChuuAuk CCtlbVOIh 0lo Ib5pICBoas
tatives, went to the Presidents room, and
most OF them managed, in the intervals
between the signing Of bills, to get In q
word or two with Mr.. Roosevelt. Police
men were on duty at the door Of the room;
but they didn't stop anybody from going
in. It was all very free, easy and demo-
cratic.
Mr.. Roosevelt was dressed to suit the
weather. He wore o coat and trousers Of
white duck, q nealigee shirt tan shoes and a
rakish Panama hat. Heidi not wear O waist
coat. His trousers were held up by o belt.
The President was In great good humor and
happy, az he told everybody In 1.-THE thought
Of getting out Of town tonight. He said
that he intended to get a good rest this
summer at Oyster Bay and intended not to
SEQ visitors except when important busi-
ness required. he had a word for every
body. Gen. Grosvenor Of Ohio and John
Wesley Gaines Of Tennessee, who appeared
In the Presidents room, clad also in spot
less white, were greeted cordially. and Mr..
Roosevelt took occasion to congratulate
John Wesley on q swan song Of Democracy
In verse which Mr.. Gaines had written.
About q hundred measures, including the
sundry civil and the agricultural appro-
priation bills and the pure food bill, were
signed by the President. Eleven bills,
nearly all to remove charges Of desertion
against the records Of men who had served
in the army or navy, he refused to sign,
and they will fail to become laws through
his pocket vetoes. ,
1t was while reading over the Sundry
Civil bill, which the President had just
signed, that Secretary Root, sitting beside
the President made q discovery that was
partly responsible for the delay In adjour-
ment.
Hello said Mr.. Root, Il get my build
Ing, indicating an item OF % 900 90 to pur-
chase land in Washington for erecting new
offices for the Department Of State Justice
and Commerce and Labor. MI. Roots
Of the bill showed that the item was there
and part Of the law, although the conferees
on the bill had agreed to leave IL out, and
the Senate and House had approved. Then
the leaders got together and decided to put
%s sns1psa Z 5oins T Tssolv was d Fsss'n ana M Ms
Root won't get bis building for some time
to come at least.
When the Senate took another recess from
2 o'olock until ; the President said he would
stick 1t out at the Capitol II he could get
would do, he declared. But Senator War
rem Of Wyoming had thought Of the Presi-
dents inner man and had arranged to have
luncheon served In the Military Affairs
Committee room. Mr.. Warren Is chair
and Senator Warren and others invited to
the luncheon went down to the committee
room. They were, in addition to the host
and the guest Of honor, Secretary Root,
Attorney General Moody, Senators Cullom,
CApp., Foraker. Crane, BLACKBURN and
Secretary to the President Loeb and Secre-
tary Of the Senate Bennett. JUS as the
first course was about to be served some
body discovered that there were thirteen
at the table, and there was an immediate
demand for another guest to break the spell
Of numerical hoodoo.
@Werl get Joe B~reckons,' said Senator
Warren. Hes my secretary and a fine
fellow
The President, who admitted that he
was nervous, demanded that Mr.. Breckons
] sppsssssss, shy and 6'nshins' the luncheon
The President wanted particularly to
See the fYescoing In the Congressional Ii
brary, he said, and he asked Secretary Root
and Assistant Secretary Bacon to 60 along
there was plenty Of time to run over to the
library just across the Capitol square. At
torney-General Moody was invited to 40
company the President and Messrs. Root
and Bacon, and the four got into a carriage
and were driven to the library. It was
too hot to walk across the blistering, sig
sling asphalt with which the Capitol plaza
Ia paved.
There were some visitors In the library
when the President and his friends got
there, but those among them who recog-
niYed Mr.. Roosevelt kept at q distance while
others did not identify the active, enthusi-
ashc man In white duck clothes and Panama
hat a. the President Of the United States.
The party inspected the decorations on all
three floors Of the building, spending about
an hour at it.
The Senate's recess had not expired
when the President returned to the Capitol.
II there's time, I'd like to get shaved
said the President. There was time, and,
escorted by Mr.. Bennett, the secretary OF
the Senate, and some Capitol policemen,
the President went to the Senate barber
shop, where . grayhaired negro, who has
been employed there since Daniel Webster
WAS a Senator, scraped the Presidents
chin.
The bills which the President was waiting
to sign weren't ready when both houses
reconyened. but Mr.. Roosevelt said he
wouldn't mind waiting another hour or
Another recess was taken until
tbs O'Clock, and the President spent part
OF that time In his official apa .tment chat
ting with those OF his Cabinet who stuck