Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-09
Mr.. KNOX is APRECIATlvE
Not an Aspirant for the Presidential
Nomination.
COLORADO JUDGsHIP SETTLED
Judge Robert E. Lewis Selected by
observation-disclosures of Consump-
ton Among Negroes of South.

steel trust will be summoned before the
House committee on merchant marine and
fisheries TO tell about the charge that steel
for shipbuilding made In this country IS
sold In England and other places abroad at
lower prices than in the United States. In
effect this may be an important move
against that gigantic corporation. in view
of the probability OF tariff revision at the
next session OF Congress
Representative Grosvenor of Ohio. chair
man of the House committee having in
charge the ship subsidy BILL made the
statement at the White House today that
his committee proposed to ascertain the
truth about the selling of plates for ship
building abroad cheaper than in the United
States This inquiry will be conducted
with care before the committee decides
what 1t will do with the ship subsidy bill
that passed the Senate.
we propose to get at the bottom OF this
thing. II possible" said Gen. Grosvenor.
The charge has been made on all sides,
and 1t will be better to find out directly
selves
The hearings will probably be closed by
the end OF this week. and Gen. Grosvenor
e .a CT, .nat within ten days the commit
tee Will report the bill. He is inclined TO
believe that the measure will be favorably
reported by close vote. As to what will
happen to 1t In the House he does not pre-
tend to say. There is heavy opposition to
| 1t In some quarters of the majority party.
among the most prominent and outspoken
members being Representative C. B. Lam
| dis OF Indiana.
Knox is Appreciative.
Senator Knox of Pennsylvania saw the
President to ask that another term he
given to Judge Alfred s. Moore of the
second division of Alaska. Judge Moore
Is citizen Of Pennsylvania and is a per-
| sonal friend of Senator Knox The Presi-
dent agreed to send in the nomination of
Judge Moore for another term.
The attention Of Senator Knox WAS
called to the mention in newspapers OF
his name for the republican Presidential
nomination.
las 1 am not an aspirant for this honor
| can appreciate the compliment all the
| more fully" was the reply.
Then you have not begun to feel any
| effects from these COMPLIMENTS
/ mo, / am not yet agitated to a serious
| degree, said the Pennsylvania senator rs
he climbed into his carriage.
speaker Cannon nnsa,b,, Who g., 4, devei9plns
| tial line, spent some time with the Pres
ident.
Representative Hepburn of Iowa was
| with the President for a while. Col.
| Hepburn had hoped that the Senate would
| vote upon the rate bill by the middle OF
this month. but he said today that. in the
| to extend the time another week.
Representatives Sherman and Goulden
| of New York, Cooper of WISCONSIN and
| Burke of South Dakota introduced friends.
A Colorado Judgeship Settled.
| President Roosevelt has received letter
| from Judge Moses Hallett of the United
States district court of Colorado, announce
| ing his desire to retire from the bench. The
| President has selected Judge Robert E.
| r auJe FOR fuHo of
Paso county, Col. The selection was made
| after a conference with Senator Patterson.
followed by talk with Representatives
| Brooks, Bonygne and Hoog OF that state.
nomination Of Justice John Campbell Of the
| supreme court Of Colorado. but Senators
Teller and Patterson were opposed to this
and threatened to fight confirmation. The
| representatives then fell back TO Judge
Lewis. and the President accepted the rec
| ommendation.
the republican candidate for governor Of
| Missouri In 1898. In 1892 and 1894 he was
the republican candidate for Congress
against Representative De Almond OF Mis-
souri, A number of years ago he moved
| to Colorado and began practicing law. aft
erward being placed upon the bench.
the University of Alabama, paid his
| spects to the President today and talked
| with the chief executive about the terrible
| ravages of consumption among the negroes
| of the south He made the statement that
| the medical fraternity Of that section fears
that the negro race will become extinct In
this country by reason or the greater oeatn
than birth rate.
President to Talk Saturday.
President Roosevelt will attend the cere-
monies incident to the laying of the corner
stone of the new Office building of the
House of Representatives next Saturday.
On that occasion he will deliver an Inn
portant address. He had expected to de-
liver the speech entitled The Man With
| the Muck Rake" which he gave at the
dinner recently given by Speaker cannon
In honor of the Gridiron Club, at Norfolk.
Va. on Memorial day, but as he desired to
| get the speech before the public at as early
|; a date as possible he has determined TO
| deliver IL next Saturday.
The ceremony of the laying of the corner.
stone will be a Masonic function and VIII
he very notable.