Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-29
At THE WHITE HOUSE
Many Members of Congress
Call to Say Farewell.
CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS
Joking With Representative Louden-
slayer ON Them.
THE PRESIDENTS DEPARTURE
II Congress Adjourns Tonight He
Will Go Tomorrow, If Tomorrow He
May Be Detained Until Monday.
THE PRESIDENTS DEPARTURE

In anticipation OF the possible adjourn.
ment of Congress tonight there was a rush
| of congressional farewell call at the White
House up to the hour of the time for the
| assembling of the cabinet In regular meet
| Ing. The President shook hands most cor
daily with all the visitors and extended his
best wishes. The truth is that Congress and
the President part with each other in a
much better frame OF mind and In a mora
kindly spirit than was once expected The
terrific feeling engendered by railroad rate
legislation; the action of the President In
putting postmasters under the civil service,
TO large extent depriving representatives
of patronage they had heretofore enjoyed,
and by which many of them had kept their
seats in Congress-; the meat inspection
amendment; statehood and several other
things aroused some resentment on the part
or Congress toward the White House. but
that has apparently disappeared to a large
extent. So far as the President is concerned
| this feeling was not desired or invited and
he has generously ignored it. The restora-
around.
Among those who called ether on busi-
ness or to say goodbye We're Senators
Spooner, La Folette. Elkins. Flint, Warren,
Fuiton, Smoot and Dryden, Representatives
Humphrey. Mondei Rodenburg Martin,
Mann. William Alden Smith and Louden-
slayer.
campaign contributions.
| Mr.. Loudenslager is the secretary of the
| republican congressional committee He
said that the headquarters of the commit
| tee will again be at the st. James building,
| In New York, and that the committee Will
| probably not get to work sesore August /.
Have you received a check from William
r. Hearst?" asked a man.
| Not YETI was the grave response "The
/ ha hat he will n ri
| ton in cash. to save going to the banks to
cash the check
Mr.. Loudenslager intimated that while
contributions might be scarce, the commit
| tee would be fairly well supplied from
| funds left over from the last campaign.
The President this morning signed the
| bill permitting cattle to remain on trains
thirty-six hours without unloading The
time heretofore has ben twenty-eight
hours.
Senator Dryden saw the President to urgs
that the bid of the New York Shipbuilding
Company for the construction of one of the
new battleshps be given consideration.
Senator Dryden told the President that the
New York company is one of the two low
est bidders the other being the Cramp con-
cern. AS only one vessel can go to a BIZ
der this would leave the New York COM
pany with an excellent show for ship
Presidents Departure
Should Congress end It's work tonight the,
row night 20 Join his family and to begin
season of much needed rest II Congress
does not adjourn until tomorrow the Presi-
dent may be detained here until Monday.
Joday's cabinet session is probably the
last one that will be held this summer un-
less extremely important matters should
require the assembling of the advisers of
the President at Oyster Bay. Cabinet oIri-
GERS win be going to Oyster Bay at inter
walls during the summer to discuss matters
in their departments, but the entire MEM
bership would not be called together there
unless 1t became necessary, in the opinion
of the President.
The Oil Prosecutions
Attorney General Moody went to the cab
met meeting today with handful of i'm
portant looking papers. These were taken
up at the cabinet meeting They are sup
posed to have related to the Standard Oil
prosecutions. A conference on this same
subject held at the White House yes
terday afternoon, those with the President
being Attorney General Moody Assistant
to the Attorney General Purdy, and Messrs
Morrison and Kellogg, special counsel en-
ployed by the Department of Justice to aid
in the oil cases In connection with the
United States attorneys at different points
Mr.. Morrison was recently United States
attorney at Chicago, but he was not want
ed there by the Illinois senators and an
other man was nominated few days ago.
The principal work of Messrs. Morrison
and Kellogg will be to conduct inyestiga-
tions to determine just how far and In how
many instances the Standard OIL has vio-
lated the laws OF the country.
The President has signed a large number
of bills in the last two days Whether he
will spend the last few hours of Congress
at the Capitol for the purpose of signing
bills has not been determined.