Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-02
At THE WHITE HOUSE
Five Cabinet Officers Had Con-
ferences Today.
JAPANESE SCHOOL AFFAIR
Not Taken Up, Says Attorney General
Bonaparte.
MIR. GAINES MAKES A CALL
He Thinks He May Be Compelled to
Make Himself Unpopular in Fore
ing Members to Do Their Duty.

Five cabinet officers conferred with the
President today, but their visits were short.
Attorney General Bonaparte remained
longer with the President than any other
cabinet official. He said that he had taken
up several matters Asked whether one of
these was the policy TO be pursued by the
administration in legal action IN the United
States courts as to the japanese school
question in San Francisco. he said the
question was not considered He was not
fully ready to announce what had been
decided upon. District Attorney Devlin Of
San Francisco, who will handle the pro-
ceedings to be brought in the courts is still
in the city. awaiting call from the Pres
ident or Attorney General. II is thought
probable that the matter will be given
further consideration by the administration
at the cabinet meeting Friday. when the
President will have an opportunity to talk
with both Attorney General Bonaparte and
Secretary Root who is handling the diplo-
matte end of the affair.
Senator Fulton of Oregon. who halls from
the part of the Pacific coast where tho
japanese question is somewhat acute. call
ed on the President today matter for
his state. When asked to the feeling OF
the people and the probability of an ISSUE
he said: IAN issue could be made out OF
the question, but it will probably not bo
done. The people out on the coast are be-
ginning to understand the attitude OF the
administration better. They do not now
fear that the administration will do any
thing hostile to their feelings, and recog-
nize that certain steps must be taken in
diplomacy
Secretary Hitchcock was the first cabinet
officer with the President, and Secretary
Metcalf was the next. Secretary Taft was
with the President later, Secretary Root
joining them.
Mr.. Gaines Makes Call.
Representative Gaines of Tennessee fears
that he may be compelled to make himself
decidedly unpopular in the House by in
sisting on members staying in their seats
and attending to their business and indi-
Gates that he may be compelled to resort TO
objections to leaves of absence and to adopt
measures to compel the sergeant alarms to
deduct from the pay of absent members.
He is serious in his views that members
of the House should not run all over the
country and a the same time draw the
money of the government.
AS matters now stand he said, "a few
men do all the work of the House while
the great majority are away at home prac-
ticing law. at the race tracks gambling or
fighting the battles of some dirty trust,
they We're not elected to do John Sharp
Williams is working himself to FRAGILE
So are Payne and Mann of Illinois, and
many others. 1t ought TO stop.
Marshal to Be Reappointed.
Attorney General Bonaparte after con-
ference with the President, has announced
that William H. Mackey, jr.. is to be re-
appointed marshal of Kansas.
Arnold Shanklin, the American consul
general at Panama, called at the White
House today and paid his respects to the
President He accompanied by John
+. Stevens jr., son of the chief engineer
of the canal.
Representatives Hogg and Brooks of Colo
RADIO conferred with the President as TO
some patronage in their state.
Nobel Medal and Diploma.
The medal and diploma accompanying
the Nobel peace prize recently awarded
President Roosevelt by the Norwegian
storthing have been received at The White
House. The diploma sets forth the fact
of the award The actual prize itself,
which will be a check for nearly $4,000,
has not yet arrived. The prize medal is a
beautiful piece of solid gold. appropriately
figured and lettered. 1t contains about
$3.50 of solid gold. On one side Is a raised
face of Nobel. the author of the prize. and
on the other side is a representation of
two men fighting and a third attempting
to part them. Around the outer edges of
this side the words, Pro pace ct
fraternatate gentium.'
The medal and diploma will be retained
by the President. while the prize itself
will be placed n nucleus for Il fund 10
promote peace between capital and labor.