Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-21
At THE WHITE HOUSE
Measure for Colorado River
and SaIton Sea Situation.
A MESSAGE FROM OKLAHOMA
Asking Cancellation Of Hitchcock
Forest Reserve Order.
ANIMOSITY OF SWETTENHAM
Has Done Everything Possible to Pre-
vent Jamaican Negroes Going to
Panama for Work on Canal.
AN1MosITY OF swETTENHAM

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Of the House committee on appropriations
had a talk with the President about pend
ing legislation. and Representative Grosve-
nor presented some documents relative to
ship subsidy legislation. from which the
President will gather facts for his mes
sage to Congress on that subject Repre-
sentatives Bede and McCleary introduced
friends.
Representative Lacey Of the House COM
mittee on public lands talked with the
President about the measure agreed upon
by his committee for the Colorado river
and Salton sea situation. The measure pro-
vides for an appropriation Of $1.50O.O0O to
repair the break in the Colorado river, the
money to be refunded to the government
from the reclamation fund in five equal an
nual payments. Authority is to be obtained
from Mexico to construct works along the
Colorado river in that country. and out of
the appropriation will be paid to private
parties such sums as have been spent on
repairs since December 20, when the Presi-
dent promised that the government would
aid in the efforts Of repair. The bill leaves
open the question of the organization Of
new reclamation district for further legis.
lation, or for action under existing law, II
it can be done within the reclamation act
A Message From Oklahoma.
Col. Robert L. Owen, a prominent dem
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constitution for which is now being framed
in the constitutional convention, delivered
to the President memorials adopted by the
convention asking for the cancellation of
the forest reserve order Of Secretary Hitch
cock, which has created SO much comment
in the Senate, and for the removal Of GER
tain restrictions as to the forest reserves.
accompanied by ex-senator Jones Of Ar
kansas, that he would give consideration to
the messages from the convention.
Col. Owen is a probable senator from the
ing control Of affairs, as he believes they
will. He says that the people Of the pros
pective state are satisfied with the work
that has SO far been done by the democrats
In the constitutional convention.
Mr.. Bacon With President.
Assistant Secretary Bacon, with meager
advices concerning the departure Of Ad-
miral Davis from Kingston by request Of
the British governor. Swettenham, made a
brief visit to the President. he declared on
leaving that the official news reaching the
State Department was practically nothing
and that the newspaper dispatches are
about the only information the administra-
ton has.
Secretary Taft was the only other cabinet
officer the President talked with during the
day, and so far as the White House was
concerned. there did not appear to be any,
thing more than desire to await the facts,
which are expected to come in later. The
President did not discuss the incident with
any of his callers during the day except
Mr.. Bacon.
Swettenham's Animosity.
Gov. Swettenham's animosity to Ameri-
cans has been well understood by the adj
ministration for some time. All the OFF,
Gals of the Panama canal have long known
that the governor of Jamaica has done
everything possible to prevent Jamaica ne
groes going to Panama to work on the ca
nal and he went so far as to communicate
with the governors of other West India
islands and seek their cooperation in eff
forts to keep laborers away from the canal.
President Roosevelt has known Of these
things for some time, and was not SUR
prised when the newspaper dispatches ar
rived telling him of the action taken by the
British governor. The administration, how
ever, will not make any complaint to the
British government as to the action Of
Swettenham, and will pass the incident
over. To attempt to get the scalp of the
British governor might accentuate the I'M
pleasant features of 1t all, and nothing will
be done.
The Ute Indian Trouble.
Capt. Carter P. johnson of the 10th Cav
airy, one of the regiments which took part
last summer in the roundup campaign
against the reueSdUc Otc 1uuidIlS, HAS UctIl
detailed by the President to make a search
ing inquiry into the causes which led the
Indians to leave their reservation and go
on a rampage. The Utes are now held
prisoners at Fort Meade, and will remain
so for the present. Several days ago six
leading men Of the Ute tribe called on
the President in charge of Col. Rodgers of
the 9th Cavalry and Capt johnson of the
10th Cavalry, to tell him their grievances.
They said they wished to live with the
Sioux on the Cheyenne river, and that the
Great White Father would, no doubt. see
that they were provided with fations. Such
a disposition of the discontinued and
troublesome Utes does not, of course, meet
the views of the President and the COM
missioner of Indian affairs, and they pro-
pose to go more deeply into the causes Of
the Indians discomfort
Explicit instructions have been given to
Capt Johnson by the President himself as
to the nature of the investigations which
| he wishes to make. Capt. johnson had a
! long talk about it with the President this
afternoon. Pending the receipt of this Of
ficers report and recommendations, the
Utes will be kept prisoners at Fort Meade.
1t is presumed that a way will be found
ultimately to return the Utes to their
reservation there and to remove, as far
as possible, the causes of their uneasinesS.
Mince Pie.
Weigh after IL is chopped three pounds