Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-25
IN REGARD TO MILITARY
Participation at Jamestown Exposi.
ton.
HE ALSO MADE A STATEMENT
In Reference to His Speech in Phila.
delphis Which Was Fully Salts
factory to the President.

Maj. Gen. Frederick d. Grant, command.
ing the Department OF the East, called at
the War Department today and had a
short talk with Secretary Taft and a longer
one with Maj. Gen. Bell. chief OF stafr
Gen. Grant Is in Washington in obedience
to orders. issued last Thursday summoning
him to conference with the chief of stan
in relation to the military participation in
the approaching jamestown exposition
where Gen. Grant will have supreme COM
mand Of all the military forces gathered
there.
Incidentally, Gen. Grant took occasion
during his talk with Secretary Taft to con-
firm the impression the Secretary already
mad formed and expressed relative to the
speech which Gen. Grant delivered at the
washington birthday banquet in Phiadel-
phia. wherein Gen. Grant is said to have
referred in a deprecatory way to some
things the President has done in connection
with the settlement of the San Francisco
Japanese school question. He assured Sec
rotary Taft that he had been misquoted
OF misunderstood on that point.
General Grants Statement.
Gen. Grant made statement in regard
to his speech at Philadelphia. from which
II appears that some of the reporters IN
derstood him to say that no such confer
ence Japanese school conference) would"
have been held during his fathers admin
istration Gen. Grant is sure that what he
did say and what he intended to say, was
that under conditions as they existed dur
Ing the time his father was President OF
the United States no such conference
could have been held at the White House
And he is quite certain that he neither in
tended to nor did say anything which could
be interpreted as a criticism of the Presi-
dent Of the United States. All he wished
n yyau IN Nal off Ton, 10 he
In conditions now and then. He referred
all newspaper men to the interview with
him published in today's New York Times
as embodying correct version Of the af-
fair.
1t is understood at the War Department
that the President Is fully satisfied with
Gen. Grant explanation although no ex-
PLANTATION had been requested
Gen. Grant was accompanied by his aid,
Capt. Bowley. and they will leave WASH
ington this afternoon by steamer for Nor
folk to meet and confer tomorrow with
President st. George Tucker Of the EXPOSE
ton company. He also will visit the site
already selected for the military encamp-
ment, facing on Hampton roads. in order
sary for the preparation Of the camp for
the reception of the troops.
Visited the Navy Department.
After seeing Secretary Taft Gen. Grant
visited the Navy Department and met
Capt. Potter of the navigation bureau,
both Of whom are members OF the board
charged with the arrangement Of the pro-
gram for the naval participation at the ex-
position. Admiral Harrington, who will be
directly in charge OF the execution OF the
naval program, had come to Washington
over night from Norfolk to talk with Sec
rotary Metcalf and some OF the naval bu-
reau chiefs about the preparations which
he has In hand. The naval program has
been practically finished. but until the de-
tails are complete 1t Is not deemed proper
to make it public.
1t has, however, been settled that Rear
Admiral Evans will bring north his entire
fleet, now maneuvering in the Caribbean,
to Hampton roads, arriving there by April
and presenting the grandest pageant of
armored fighting ships ever gathered under
the United States flag. Being freshly from
a comparatively long and hard cruise in
tropical waters, including extended drills
and target practice, the fighting ships may
not be spck and span naval vessels
are want to appear. but perhaps they will be
the more interesting to the general public
from the fact that they do bear the marks
of hard work at sea- Within few days
after the opening of the exposition the
great fleet will be dissipated, the vessels
scattering to the various navy yards to
undergo the repairs which always are neces-
sary at the expiration of such a cruise as
they are now making. The program con-
templates, however, keeping a few ships at
the exposition throughout the summer, and
vessels whenever the exposition Is visited
by vessels of foreign navies. which is ex-
pected to occur at intervals from the be-
ginning to the end.