The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-09-11
LOEB MISSES HIS CUE.
Fails to Explain Missions of
Presidents Visitors.
sTRAUs AND NELL THERE
All Three, However, Positively Deny
That TeIeRrHDhers' Strike Was Dis
cUSsed in Any MISUNDERSTANDING of
Commerce and Labor Says Pacific
Coast Is for Roosevelt.

oyster Bay, n. L, Oepts W'-SFcFtttsIy
Of Commerce and Labor straus and
Charles p. Noil. Commissioner Of Labor,
lunched at Sycamore Hill to-day. Both
denied that any mention was made of
the telegraphers strike during their con-
ference with the President.
Secretary Loeb. before the arrival OF
the guests, said that Commissioner Nsill
had come to discuss some phase of the
eight-hour law. This Mr.. Nell denied.
He made the denial, however. before be-
ing informed Of what Mr.. Loeb had said,
and it may have been merely a case of
poor team work Secretary Straus said
that the conversation had been general
we discussed literature, history, eco
Monies. almost everything except the
telegraphers' strike" said the Secretary.
II made a report concerning the eondi-
ton of immigration, emigration. and in
dustral affairs in the places I visited
during my trip"
The Secretary refused to specify as to
the conversation.
When asked for hts opinion as to the
anti-Japanese feeling on the Pacific
Coast. the Secretary said that he be
lieved that the causes Of hatred lay
rather in economic than in race differ
ences The dislike Of the japanese Is
confined to the laboring classes, he said.
and one hears no objection from en-
ployers Of labor.
Not Worried About Fleet.
las to the feeling OF the people in the
Pacific Coast States over the reports that
a feet OF war ships is TO be sent TO their
waters, the Secretary said:
I did not hear an expression on the
subject From the talk Of the people you
would never suspect that they had heard
Of all this strife about the war ships. The
| people on the Coast are not interested IN
that subject"
Secretary Straus said that there was
but one word in the West when people
were questioned about their preference
for a successor TO the President, and that
word Was Roosevelt
They VIII not believe" said the Secre-
/ tary. that tha President will not run
again. They demand that the impossible
/ happen. and i vas Of no use TO tell them
/ that the President was man OF his
word. and thai he had said that he would
not again be a candidate for the office.
! Secretary StTaus said that on leaving
! Oyster Bay he would go at once to Wash
| ingtOn TO pitch into an accumulation Of
work. 4 mean TO push the extension OF
the usefulness of the foundation for the
promotion Of industrial peace which Presi-
dent Roosevelt started when he was
awarded the Nobel peace prize / shall
/ have Commissioner NELL made an honor
| airy secretary In order that we may take
! advantage Of his large experience in in
dustrl8l troubles
Wants MilIion-dOIIar Fund.
The Secretary added that an attempt
would be made to raise a million dollar
| endowment We want and can use a
million" he said. but no more. and We
viii stop with that sum"
/ Pressed 10 say something about the
situation In the telegraphers' strike. the
! Secretary would only say that il was not
/ the fault of Commissioner Nell, but of the
strikers, that 10 settlement had been
made.
When the Secretary made his remark
about bringing Mr.. Neil into the indus
| trial peace foundation, he added: You
know the Commissioner AS had large
| experience in settling strikes, the teleg-
| raphers' for instance"
Hes joshing me now" exclaimed the
| Commissioner: 1t is not fair to make fun
! Of a man who has done his best and
/ hunked, is it?'
/ Just before his train started Secretary
/ StraUs had one last word 20 say about
/ President Roosevelt. He is a most Won
/ derful man." exclaimed the Secretary.
/ He is the most widely read man in
/ history that ! ever met"
And here the Secretary lowered his
voice. And you know that all great
| historians have also been great prophets. -
| Mr.. Straus did not specify whether
| Roosevelt the historian has been also
| Roosevelt the prophet.
Other luncheon guests at Sycamore Hill
were Laurence S. Abbott ano Ernest
/ Hamlin Abbott. both of the Outlook
| Magazine.