Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-13
AT THE WHITE HOUSE
important Conferences for This
Afternoon.
PANAMA CANAL CONTRACT
President and Secretary Taft Dis
cuss Its Phases.
THE JAPANESE SCHOOL QUESTION
California Delegation to Make An
other Effort to Consummate
Settlement Of vexed Issue.
PANAMA CANAL CONTRACT
THE JAPANESE SCHOOL QUESTION

President Roosevelt's afternoon promises
to be buster and more important than the
first part Of the days work. He is
scheduled for another conference on the
proposed Panama canal contract at
o'clock this afternoon, and following that,
which will last an hour or more, is a con-
ference on the japanese school question at
4 o'clock. The President and Secretary
Taft are having final hearings as to the
financial responsibility and fitness of GER
| tain persons for taking the contract for
completion of the canal in the event the
contract is let and the government itself
does not do the work. The expectation Is
that the conference this afternoon will be
on this last subject and that a decision
will be reached and announced in a day or
two. Ample time has been given for the
government to know whether it really
wishes the work to be done by contract and
to know whether certain men are competent
and qualified.
l. Various reports are current as to a pos
sible agreement on the japanese school
question with the municipal authorities of
San Francisco, who have been here five
days and have had two conferences with the
President and Secretary Root.
President Roosevelt had conference this
afternoon with Frank Sargent, commission
er of immigration, who was in Hawaii re-
Gently studying the immigration problem
on the spot, and who is thoroughly ac-
j
to that territory. The Japanese govern
ment furnishes permits to the laborers
to go to Hawaii and from there they come
to the mainland. Permits are not given by
the japanese government for the labor
ers to come direct to this country.
Speaker Cannon Better.
Speaker Cannon visited the President to-
day for the first time since his attack of
grip. II hardly believed there was any
S1loh orin str,
short time ago." said the Speaker. Now
I no longer doubt the genuineness of the
disease. 1t was the first attack 1 ever had.
Yes, this Is the first cigar have enjoyed
for week or more"
Then the Speaker pulled out a box of
pills and took q small one, remarking that
it made him think Of the story about the
old woman who wanted the conductor to
tell her when Poughkeepsie had been
reached.
General Andrade, a prominent Cuban,
called on the President today and paid his
respects.
Asked to Settle Probable Strike.
PRESIDENT Roosevelt has receiver a dis
patch asking him to see If he can settle
differences that have arisen between the
Western Union and its operators at Chica~
co. and which promise to involve all the
offices Of the Western Union in the country
In a big strike. The President has turned
the dispatch over to Commissioner Neill
of the bureau of labor for his consideration.
1t Is presumed the dispatch came from
operators although not from the officials
| of the operators union. 1t is stated at the
White House that as the strike has not
taken place and Is simply under consider
alton by the operators there is nothing
that can be done at this time. If the strike
should be officially declared the government
may be able to offer its aid in the adjust
ment of the differences.
Another Modification Of Land Order.
President Roosevelt told Representative
| Stevenson Of Minnesota today that he had
made another modification of his suspen-
| sion order of January % relating to pub
| lie lands, which will except from the oper-
| atoms of that order all homestead proofs
| on coded Indian lands where there are
| deferred payments. The order as it orig
| inally stood, it was asserted, imposed
hardships on many settlers who have made
| homestead entries, because of some of it's
| of conferences between the President and
| various representatives from the north
| west, who have sought to impress on
him the necessity of modifying IT in sew
| eral particulars The additional exceptions
| to the operations Of the general order are
! still far from entirely satisfactory to the
representatives interested, and they will
continue in their efforts to obtain further
| concessions from the President. Repre-
| sentatives Burke and Martin of South
Dakota talked with the President about
the question To-Day.
The Presidents Visitors.
A large number of congressman were at
| the White House today, but in nearly every
| instance the presentation of visitors was
| the only business they had. Among those
who saw the President were Senators Gam
BILE, Hepburn, McEnery, DUPONT, Beveridge,
Hansbrough and Lodge and Representatives
Mann, McNarey, Weeks. Stevenson. Dun
well, Hughes, Fulkerson, Waldo. Hale and
Longworth also Delegate Mcguire Of Okla
homa and Delegate Waskey of Alaska.