Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-15
At THE WHITE HOUSE
The Cabinet in Session a Long
Time.
THE LETTER TO ALLISON
Presidents Friends Think It a Strong
Document.
SENATOR CARTER A CALLER
Now a Principal Defender Of the Ad-
ministration In the senate-To-
days Nominations.
SENATOR CARTER a CALLER

| tainable there still being In force the regu-
lations adopted some months ago prevent
| ing cabinet officers discussing with news
paper reporters the doings OF the Presi-
dents advisers. Since the order of the
President on this subject newspaper men do
not attempt to seek Information as to cabi-
| net sessions and little Is said about what Is
done in these meetings Cabinet officers go
| in and out of the executive offices to and
from cabinet meetings without moiestation,
SO far as cabinet business is concerned.
Whether there was any discussion of the
| rate controversy OF the last few days was
! not learned. but the assumption is that
such an interesting topic did not fail to
draw something like a family talk around
the big cabinet table. 1t is stated that
cabinet officers are pleased with the an
swer made by the President to the TILL
man charges In the letter he wrote to Sena-
tor Allison. made public last night.
There was the strongest kind Of pressure
yesterday to prevent the President taking
any notice Of the charges and allowing
them to, go unreferred to. The President
was never in favor of this. and the feeling
ls strong among his close personal friends
that his letter was the strongest he could
have written. It's effect IN minimizing the
furry caused by the Tillman charges~is ex-
pected to be good throughout the country.
The whole tone Of 1t carries the idea that
-mountain was made out OF mole hill.
Unless Senators Tillman and Bailey and
ex-senator Chandler are able to produce a
different impression. the Presidents friends
are satisfied with the manner in which he
handled the whole thing.
The letter OF the President was prepared
after conferences extending over forty Eight
hours, from Saturday night to Monday
night. During that time the President had
conferences with Secretaries Taft and Root,
Attorney General Moody, Senators Lodge
and Allison and others, and the tenor of
~ a q r
torney General Moody himself was with the
President three or four hours during the
day.
Senator Carter Calls Today.
Senator Carter of Montana was one of
the few callers prior to the cabinet session.
The subject of his conference with the Pres
ident did not become known. but as the
Montana senator has suddenly come to the
front as the principal defender OF the add
ministration in the Senate. it was suspected
that he was accommodating facts for use in
the event of future attacks upon the Pres
ident. It was Senator Carter who took
conspicuous part. although quiet one. in
bringing the republican elements of the
Senate together on the Allison amendment.
How far he may have been indirectly COM
missioned by the President in this direc-
ton is not known. III the attacks upon the
President Saturday in the Senate, the Mon
tana senator made answer. In the fight
against Benjamin F. Barnes, for postrnas-
ter Of Washington, Senator Carter has been
prominent in arranging to confirm Mr..
Barnes without the investigation Senator
Tillman has been demanding.
The confidential position Senator Carter
occupies to the administration recalls the
fact that he was on most intimate terms
with the late President Mckinley and did
some important work for the latter in the
Senate. 1t was by request of President
Mckinley, as well as upon his own motion,
that Senator Carter talked to death in the
co, b ,.tx, axx11 ,rt~<>
appropriation of $65000,O0O. That bill was
considered to have carried more pork for
congressman than any that had passed
through committees for dozens of years.
Senator Carter received the thanks of
President Mckinley for his achievement.
Nominations for the Senate.
The President today sent to the Senate
the following nominations:
Justice-To be United States district Judge
for the district of Porto Rico. Bernard s.
Rodey of New Mexico; to be United States
attorney for the western district of Arkan-
sas. James X. Barnes, of Arkansas; to be
United States attorney for the western dis
trict of Washington, Potter Charles Sullf-
van of Washington.
Navy-Captain to be rear admiral Morris
X. s. Mackenzie; lieutenant commander to
be commander. Frank w. Bartlett; lieuten-
ants to be lieutenant commanders, Adelbert
Althouse. Richard H. Leigh.
Interior-To be receivers of public moneys,
William E. Wallace of Glenwood Springs at
Glenwood Springs, Colo; Patrick M. Null
lon of Alaska at Juneau, Alaska; to be
registers of land offices. John W. Dudley
of Alaska at Juneau, Alaska; Fred w.
Stocking of Washington at Olympia. Wash.
Mr.. Rodey's Nomination.
The nomination of b. 3. Rodey to be
United States judge of Porto Rico rs an in
teresting one. Mr.. Rodey was delegate
in Congress from New Mexico two years
ago and fought hard for statehood for his
territory. When joint statehood of Arizona
and New Mexico was decided upon by the
President, Mr.. Rodey championed that set
Element of the whole thing. In doing so
he made himself unpopular in his territory,
where the feeling was strong against joint
statehood.
Mr. Rodey was a territorial Judge of New
Mexico at one time He was selected for
the Porto Rican position, made vacant by
the retirement of Judge McKenna, because
he speaks and understands the Spanish
language and the Spanish people 1t is he
heyed that he will make most acceptable
judge.
WARNER TOMORROW.