Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-14
AT THE WHITE HOUSE
Lively Day in Neighborhood of
Executive Offices.
INDIANS MAKE THEIR PLEA
Declared Their Allotments of Lands
Are Too Small.
SENATOR ALDRICH CONFER.s
Ship Mail Subsidies Discussed by Rep
resentative Littauer]ames Wads-
worth Also q Visitor.
INDIANS MAKE THEIR PLEA
ALDRICH coNFERs

worth Also Visitor.
Several incidents. picturesque and other
| wise. enlfvened the days doings at the
White House. A runaway started of
| things. Next the President had a long
conference with his old-time friend and
! rate bill opponent. Senator Aldrich OF
! Rhode Island while twenty or thirt!
congressman waited. The third was pow
WOW with six White river Ute Indians
| who are much dissatisfied with conditions
| on their reservation, and recently went on
a long tramp to join the Cheyenne Sioux
Indians to manifest their dissatisfaction,
Senator Aldrich, at one time one Of the
| closest advisers of the President. spent an
| hour with the chief executive discussing
some matters that are pending in Congress.
The conference was interesting because OF
| the cordially on both sides. The visit was
| the first that Senator Aldrich has made
! since the beginning Of the present session.
and 1t Is understood that he was sent for.
Indians Make Great Plea.
The Ute chieftains were accompanied to
| the Great White Father by two young
| interpreters from the Carlisle Indian
Capt C. P. johnson and Col. Rogers. the
commandant at Fort Mead-and Francis E.
Leupp, commissioner of Indian affairs. The
six chiefs discarded most of their war
| trappings, wearing plain American clothes.
but retaining their moccasins and going
bareheaded. The long, jet black hair fell
over their shoulders.
The pow-wow with the President was
watched with deepest interest by number
OF visitors waiting to see the chief execu-
tive. Through Mashushi. their chief. and
| Appak the head of their council, the Utes
| told the President about their grievances.
They declared that they could not live on
the allotments of land granted them in the
Uintah reservation in Utah at the time their
| lands in that state were opened to settle
ment.
The aIlotments. they aver. are too small.
and the result Is that they are surrounded
none Of the freedom they have been &C
customed to. They begged permission to
transfer their residence to the Cheyenne
river reservation Of the Sioux Indians.
President could gather nothing specific ex-
cept that there is a general feeling of I'M
rest among the 1876 men, women and chill
dren composing the White river band They
were asked what they expected to do II
they were allowed to go among the Sioux.
and how they would earn a living They
said they would be good. and that kind
government would furnish them with food
and clothing. They practically adI-..ted
that they did not like work. and that they
had rather be where free rations are given
by the government. They did not have
this beneficent treatment at their own
reservation. '.,..-.- =.
The President did not make any promises
to the big chiefs. but said that be would
in the afternoon he entertained Commits
sioner Leupp, Col. Rogers and Capt john
ston. the subject being gone over again.
The Ute band Is now held as prisoners at
EN0rx 10 N how incY han 10 nr, harn
when stopped on their long tramp across
country.
They will be kept there until the Presi-
dent decides their case. Their request could
not be arranged unless the Sioux granted
permission for them to purchase lands on
their reservation. which they desire to do
from funds procured by the opening to
settlement of their re servation.
Ship Mail Subsidies.
Representative Littauer of New York
talked with the President today about
the subsidy proposition. He informed the
President that it would be impossible to
get through the House any legislation to
| subsidize cargo-carry,ng vessels, but that
the House would vote for subsidies for
carrying mail to certain countries, and
that a strong effort would be made today
to get the House committee now having
the matter in charge to vote that way
when It's final meeting is held tomorrow.
tanned in the House on the proposition to
grant mail subsidy to steamship lines to
South America, Australasia and the orient.
T. j. Dolan, secretary-treasurer of the
International Brotherhood Of Steam Shovel
and Dredge Men, and Frank German, local
representative of the same organization.
saw the President about the demand of the
steam shovel men for higher wages on the
Isthmus Of Panama.
The engineers down there are now paid
500 per month and furnished with first
class quarters. Mr.. Dolan thinks they
ought to have $500 per month. The crane
men are paid $3.50 and want $3.50, while the
fremen are now paid $85 and desire $40.
The President sent Mr.. DOlan to the 18TH
milan canal commission for conference.
Mr.. Dolan says that steam shovel engineers
In New York receive $3.50 per month and
should get nearly twice as much in Panama.
William C. Fox, the new minister to Ecua-
dor, pai,. visit to the White House today
prior to his departure for his post.
People Freezing In North Dakota.
After making a visit to the President,
Senator Hansbrough said that he had just
received a letter from a friend in Ward
county, N. D., stating that three women
have frozen to death in that county because
of the shortage of fuel, and that the facts
have been suppressed for fear that 1t will
hurt the state. Senator Hansbrough would
like to see the House pass the resolution
put through the Senate by him suspending
ments of the homestead laws SO that set
tiers in remote parts of the state can leave
their homes until the severe weather is
over.
The three women who were frozen were
homesteaders who could not leave their
farms and were unable to obtain fuel and
supplies by reason of the car shortage.
The New York Legislature.
The President had a two hours talk last
night with James Wadsworth, Jr., speaker
of the New York legislature. as to the sit
uation at Albany. where the legislature Is
In session. Mr.. Wadsworth was sent for by
the President. He left Washington after
midnight. declaring that IL anything was
to be given out about the conference It
would have to come from the President
The President today had a talk with
the members of the Chesapeake and Della
ware canal commission which has recon-
mended the purchase by the government of
that waterway with view to its construc-
ton into a free and open waterway sufi-
cient to accommodate large vessels. Gen.
Felix Agnus, the chairman, headed the COM
mission, the others including Maj. C. A. F.
F1a4ier OF the army and Civil Engineer 3.
T. Chambers of the navy.
President Roosevelt suggested to his