Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-07-24
That's What the Sending of the Atlantic Fleet to the Pacific Is Termed at Washington
NO TARIFF REVISION
kittridge Will Be Reelected in DakOt., Without Trouble-Meyer Has Gone Away-Uncle sam to Go After Lynehers.

Is the sending of the Atlantic fleet to Pacific waters merely g. huge Roose- veltian bluff? Developments here in- dicate that such is the case, and cor roboration has come from Oyster Bay. The proprietor of New York news paper cabled to Viscount Hiashi, n1in- ister of foreign affairs at Tokio, ask ing him the views of the JeDanese government on the proposed transfer Of Americas naval power from the Atlantic to tha Pacific ocean. AS hTght ba arpscted, the diplomatic Japanese official replied in most con- ciliatory language. His message had scarcely come ticking off the cable be- fore what was reported to be an off, cial statement was obtained by the same newspaper from President Roosevelt. The President is reported 10 have said that no order has been given the Navy Department to send the battIeship fleet to the Pacific, and that he knows of no order to that ef- feet having been issued by the gen. eral board. It was announced that the present plan of the Department is to have the battleships leave on q cruise early in the fall, but the destination has not yet been determined and they may not go to the Pacific The state ment credited to the President insists that the matter has nothing whatever to do with the Japanese question and closes with the declaration that ab- soluteIy no international significance can be attached to it. The armored cruiser St Louis, however. is on Us way to Pacific waters and IS due to reach San Francisco about Septem Der l. The Navy Department has been informed that the cruiser has left Montevideo and will next touch at Punta Arenes in the Straits of Ma gelIan.
 Government officials are noting with interest the tendency of the va rious state universities to draw upon the capital for special lecturers for their summer schools. Dr. C. W. A. Veditz, acting dean of the College of Political Sciences of the George Wash ington University. left thts week for the University of Illinois, where he will deliver Q course of lectures dur ing the summer. This excursion of Dr Vaditz is of especial interest, foc the reason that he is at the head of a branch of the George Washington University that is turning out skilled help for the consular service of the United States, and which has been recagni zed as the leading institution of it's Kind in this country, taking rank with the schools of the political sciences of France and England This policy of sending professors of thiH University to the various schools throughout the country !s expected t2 stregthen the growing agitation fo- the establishment of a national uni versity at the capital. The local uni versity is aspiring to fill this niche, and it's aspirations have 5een endors- ed by the President, the presiding members Of both houses of Congress, and practically every member Of the Presidents official family together with large number of other men prominent T public life The inten- tion IS to achieve this end without resorting to the use of public moneys, and patriotic Americans are beginning to subscribe lberally to an endow- meat fund