Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-19
To Investigate Ohio Case.

LIZ AASCotAS ave SAAS ON~S'
Postmaster General Meyer said at the
close of the cabinet meeting today that
he would at once send to Lorraine, Ohio, a
competent man to make a prompt report
to him on case that has arisen there
and which has become mixed in the presi-
Dental fight in that state. During
strike of shipbuilders at Lorraine two COM
panies of the 9Th Ohio Regiment We're
called out Among the members of this
regiment were Capt A. F. Cove and Sergt
Phinney They remained in their armory
under orders for two weeks Before the
company was discharged Postmaster New
man called on Cove and Phinney, who
were mail carriers. to return to their
duties, taking the position that the gov
eminent should be served before the duty
of the men to their military companies.
Cove and Phinney failed to obey the or
ders of the postmaster, and were suspend
ed. They appealed to Senator FORAKER,
who has taken UP their case and Will fight
for them. In this way the question has
become injected in presidential politics.
Studying American Coal Mines.
The President today received a number
of Hungarian capitalists who are in this
country studying coal mining. At the head
of the party is J. Petsehek of Bohemia. He
owns nearly half of the coal mines of the
Austro- Hungarian empire; is worth mil
lions and employs thousands of miners
He has been in the west looking into the
operations Of soft coal mines and Is now
his way to Scranton, where he VIII m
vestigate the hard coal mines He says
there Is enough soft coal in the United
States to last 1000 years, and enough nara
coal to last 100 years. He thinks this is
a great country with it's development just
really beginning. He is pleased with
American ways and methods, and through
an Interpreter told President Roosevelt SO.
Joseph Polatschek of Chicago introduced
the party.
Ex-senator Alice of Delaware called on
the President today in connection with
some Delaware patronage. Aithough De
feated for the Senate he Is still regarded
as powerful in Delaware political analrs.
Leniency Asked for Burge'
The President will soon have to pass upon
the question of committing the sentence OF
William Burge, colored, under sentence to
be hanged here next Tuesday for the muir
der of his wife two years ago. His at
torney has filed with the Department OF
Justice an application for Communication, al
legins that there Is serious doubt as to the
sanity of the condemned man. District At
torney Baker has disapproved of the APP
plication which has not yet reached the
President.
The Peace Congress a Success.
The President heard some tidings at first
hand today of the work of the peace con-
gress which has just finished It's work in
New York. Representative Bartholdt of
Missouri. who attended the meetings. told
the President that his letter on arbitration
and other subjects had been we'll received.
The work of the congress had been dis
tinct success, he said, and the gatherings
were harmonious. Such little ripples of diff
ferences were displayed in the debates
were not of Importance. The congress
passed a set of resolutions which, Mr..
Bartholdt assured the President. were mod
crate in tone, practical in application and
reasonable and timely.
Former Representative w. j. Coombs of
New York. the president of the Common
wealth Club of that city, of which the
President is a member, talked with the
President today about some of the work of
that organization. The object of the club
is the discussion of political and economic
subjects. 1t has not had meeting for ten
years, but Mr.. CoombS proposes that these
gatherings shall be revived. He wanted to
put at the disposal of the President, he
said, the facilities of the club in the event
that he desired a gathering, On-political In
character, to which he might make public
his sentiments on public questions.
Labor Protests to Be Ignored.
Protests of labor men against the Pres-
dents utterances as to Debs, Haywood and
Meyer are still reaching the White House.
half dozen letters and kilograms have
been received from labor organizations
asking the President to state whether he
wrote the remarks regarding these men
signed by him in the Sherman letter." I'm
less there is a change in his purpose the
President will not answer any of these
communications. Chicago labor organiza-
tions.- failing to- get answer to their
: requests of the White House, have dele
gated one of their number to come here to
personally. ask the President for a state
ment 1t is possible that this delegate is
on the way. There is some doubt whether
he will be received, but no determination
has been reached on that point.
It Is stated that the President has no
apology to make for his characterization of
the three labor leaders. no qualification to
offer and no regret to express.