Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-05
At THE WHITE HOUSE
Meat Report Discussed at Cab
met Meeting.
THE NEW YORK JUDGEsHIP
Still Believed to Be Between Hough
and Chatfeld.
A NOTED CATHOLIC PRIEST
Father conrady, Successor to Father
Damien in Charge Of Leper
Colony, Received.
'TED CATHOLIC PRIEST


regular session today. discussed with in
terest the meat packing report sent to Con-
gress yesterday, and approved the course
of the President. Without exception they
| feel that Congress ought to pass the most
| stringent sort of a law for the inspection Of
cattle, hogs and meat. Secretary Wilson
| has been foremost in advocacy Of this
course.
| Secretary Bonaparte, after the cabinet
meeting, said that the Maryland appoint
ments, which are of much interest in that
state. would not be made for ten days or
| so. The President, he said, had postponed
| their consideration until the cabinet meet
ing to be held June Is. when he will take
them up with the Secretary of the Navy.
The President, it Is stated, has not def
nitely determined that he will not make
Charles M. Hough judge of the southern
| district of New York because Of objections
to Mr.. Hough as a corporation lawyer. He
still has the name of Mr.. Hough under con-
sideration and regards him able man.
The fact, though, that MIR. Hough is con-
nected with a firm of lawyers that has
| long represented the Pennsylvania railroad
is considered serious objection to him,
even though he has the backing of Repre-
sentatiyes Parsons, Bennett and O.cott the
former republican county chairman of New
York county.
The New York Judgeship.
cannot be appointed Representative Par
| sons shows an inclination to support
Stephen M. Olin, who is favorabiy known to
| the President. Besides the fact that Mr..
| Olin might not accept the position is the
fact that he is beyond the age the Presf-
dent has set for judicial appointments,
This eliminates him from the race. Repre-
Sc Itatiye Olcott who is now back of Hough
| as a favor to Parsons. will support r. X.
| Ientfce in the event Hough cannot be
named.
| Many New York men say that the best
{ Thomas l. Chatfield, assistant United
| States attorney of the present eastern dis
: trict. The, objection brought out to Chat
| field is that he lives in Brooklyn, while the
| new judgeship is for Manhattan. Chatfield,
| however, practices In New York and has
| most of his business there, it Is said by
| those supporting him. AS the new judge
has been provided for to handle criminal
| business and must do that nearly altogether
Chatfelds qualifications are considered of
the best If the President followed his
| rule of referring appointments OF this klna
| to the Department of Justice, Chatfteld
would, 1t is satd get the backing of that
department because Of his record there
| Well informed New Workers believe that
the race is still between Hough and Chat
| field, despite the new entries.
President Roosevelt will tomorrow attend
| the commencement exercises or the Ma
tIonal Cathedral School on Wisconsin ave-
nue and will deliver an address at 1890
O'clock. This is the school that his daugh-
| ter, Miss Ethel Roosevelt attends
A Noted Catholic Priest.
Rev L. L. Conrardy, the companion and
successor of Father Damien who for many
wears had charge of the leper settlement
| at Molokai In the Hawaiian Islands, wns
presented to the President today by Rev.
| A. p Doyle, head of the Paulist Mission
| House at the Catholic University Father
Conrardy has served humanity and his
church in many parts OF the world BY ma
| tiyity Belgian, as was Father Damien, he
| finally after being In various parts OF the
world in religious and philanthropie work.
| joined Father Damien in the Hawaiian
| Islands to assist in the care of the lepers.
He buried Father Damien and succeeded
| him as the head of the leper settlement.
When he left Molokai there We're 800 iepers
| in the settlement. His experience in the
work induced the Catholic Church to trans
| fer him to Canton. China, there to look
after the lepers. In Canton and vicinity
there are approximately $4,000 lepers.
They are not confined to a settlement, and
practically have nobody now to care for
| them. They are ostracized by their people
and even their relatives will have nothing
| to do with them. 1t sometimes happens,
when a member of family is stricken
with ieprosy, that the stricken one Is
burned alive in the belief that such death
| will prevent the spread of the disease in
the family. Father Conrardy Is en-
gagged in raising fund the interest on
which will enable him to support 300 Chi
nese Iepers, three sisters and himself. He
hopes to obtain fund that VIII yield him
So GOO a year. He expects to maintain the
iepers on ~ cents a day each, their prin-
eipal food being rice Eventually, some land
may be acquired on which the lepers may
raise little fruit and vegetables The
President manifested deep interest In the
work of Father Conrardy.
st. Andrews Social City.