Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-07
At THE WHITE HOUSE
Long-Continued Meeting of the
Cabinet.
PROSECUTION OF TRUSTS
Another Conference to Be Held This
Evening.
CURRICULUM OF MIDSHIPMEN
Board Appointed to Consider the Cues
ton of Improvements at the
Naval Academy.
CURRICULUM OF MIDSHIPMEN


Although there was cabinet meeting at
the White House today everything was of
secondary interest to the proposed confer
ence the trusts. which, 1t was under
stood. would be held in the early evening.
Milton w. Purdy of the Department OF Jus
tce saw the President early in the day to
arrange some of the preliminartes of the
trust meeting. and Edwin w. Sims. district
attorney of Chicago, was another OF the
morning callers. Mr.. Sims would not discuss
the trust situation in Chicago, but 1t is gen.
orally understood that the reason of his
coming to Washington is the prospective
prosecution of the harvester trust. A num-
Der of the other big corporations of Chicago
will be under inquiry, all of the railroads
coming in for discussion. 1t is understood
also that the express companies will receive
some attention.
Mr.. Purdy is in charge of most of the in
formation gathered by the interstate COM
merce commission regarding the bituminous
coal roads, SO that his presence at the con-
ference is easily explained.
The cabinet meeting continued until al
most o'clock. an unusually late hour.
but as it was the last meeting before the
departure of the President for his summer
rest, the incident only natural. All
the members of the cabinet present signified
L
the trust symposium this evening. There
will be present beside the cabinet members
some representatives of the Department OF
Jusice and some of the members OF the
interstate commerce commission.
1t was said after the cabinet meeting
that there We're a number of subjects in
connection with the antitrust campaign
that the President wanted to definitely
settle as matters Of policy before going
away for the summer. The principal sub
| jects that will be brought up the har-
Ctnr fhn nnnl nd
| tain aspects of the Hartman case that are
much in need of discussion. The word
prosecution was not used in connection with
| Mr. Hartman. but the whole subject of his
| railroad manipulations will be passed In re-
| view and the President and his advisers
! will consider what steps necessary TO
protect the public in the future from such
| explorations as Mr.. Hartman has INDUCED
| in.
| Trip of Waterways Commission.
| Representative Burton of Ohio one of
| the callers before the cabinet meeting. He
| did not discuss the appointment of Collector
McMackin except to say that he well
| enough satisfied and that he did not think
| that patronage appointments ought to have
any effect on elections, II Their ever did.
Regarding the plans of the waterways
commission, Mr.. Burton said that the COM
mission probably would hold its next meet
| ing toward the end of September. They
| probably will join the President at Keokuk
proceed with him down the Mississippi.
instruction of Midshipmen
President Roosevelt has appointed naval
| board, composed of Capt. Richard VAIN
wright of the general board, Commander
Robert S. Griffin of the bureau of steam
| engineering and Lieut. Commander Albert
| L. Key personal aid to the President, to
| suggest imprC vements in the course of in
! struction of midshipmen at the Naval Acad-
| envy and to report to the Secretary of the
| Navy before the beginning of the next
academic year.
Confederate Daughters Received.
| The President received the United pa,.gh-
ters of the Confederacy in the east room of
the White Houes yesterday afternoon.
| Mrs. Lizzie George Henderson, the presi-
| deot of the Daughters; Mrs. Ralph Walsh,
| the president of the District League, and
Mrs. Kicks. who is Mrs. Henderson $ hostess
| in Washington, headed the delegation. The
| Daughters We're followed by about fifty
| members of the Florence Crittenton Asso-
| citation.
Toledo Collector Appointed.
| The appointment has been announced of
| Gen. VIM. V. McMakn as internal revenue
| collector at Toledo, Ohio, succeeding Gen.
| p. Walford, who has held the Office since
| 1898. Gen. McMakn is a brigadier general
| In the National Guard, and, gesides years
| training at West Point, has been active for
many years in National Guard matters. He
| organized the crack corps of Cleveland
| Cadets who have won competitive drill
! prizes all over the country. He was in
dorsed by both Senators Dick and Foraker,
| but is understood to be a strong Taft sup
porter, and it is believed will add material
ly to the Secretary's strength in Ohio
Presidents Travelling Expenses.
With the approaching close of the fiscal
year, it is possible to cast up about what
| the Presidents travelling expenses have
| been since they We're paid for by the gov
| eminent. and no longer made at the ex-
pense of the railroads. 1t will be remem-
| bered that Congress appropriated $4,000 a
| year for tine Presidents travelling expenses,
| and there was a serious question at the
| time whether this would cover the amount
| The President has travelled as much as he
| wanted, and lived as well as he wanted on
| his several trips since then, and the total
cost after he has made the jamestown trip
| which will be the last one before going
| away for the summer, will be about 5000
| 1t will, in reality, be a little less than this
| but 5000 will cover it amply.
| There has been considerable change in
the style of the presidential trips When
| they were made at the expense of the rail-
! roads and the passenger and press agents
| were left to stage manage the functions
money was spent with reckless PROD gaIlty
The most sumptuous sort of special trains
were provided along with every ihlns that
| the ingenuity of could devise TO eat,
drink and smoke. Special schedules were
arranged, and the number Of suoernumefles
| was limited only by the needs of the rail-
| roads 1t was costly work, but the rail-
| roads were competing with one another.
| and it was good investment from an add
vertising standpoint.
| Since the President has been paying his
| own way, the expenses have been cut down
to the absolute requirements of comfort and
no more people We're taken along than
| necessary. Special trains and special sched-
ules have been abandoned, and the appear
| ance of n Roman triumph has no longer
| marked the progress of the presidential car
| attached to the rear of the regular train.
| The President has been accustomed for
many years to eating out of frying pan
| and sleeping on the ground whenever occa-