Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-24
Only Four at the Cabinet
Meeting Today.
FAT TURKEYS DISTRIBUTED
President Gives One to All Married
Employees.
MRS. LoNGwoRTH TO BE MOVED
So Much Improved in Condition
That She Will Go to Her Own
House Thursday.

There was no nalr-nOnody IOr tito
White House today and the President put
Ia the usual number Of hours In his office.
It was tho regularscabinet day, too. but
only four Of the nine cabinet advisers
were present. They were Secretaries
Root. Metcalf and Wilson and Attorney
General Bonaparte. They discussed de-
pAxtmental matters and did not remain
in session long. Secretary Taft had not
returned from Ohio: Secretary Cortelyou
10 Ill with the grip. Secretary Garfield
went to Bowlesburg. Pa, with his family
for Christmas while Postmaster General
Meyer and Secretary Straus were out Of
the city. The four cabinet officers with
the President today will all spend their
Christmas with their families in this city
Part of the time during the cabinet meet
ting Francis J. Heney, special counsel for
the government in public land fraud cases
In Oregon, conferred with the President
end Attorney General Bonaparte. The
Prestdent recently declined to renomin-
ate w. c. Bristol as United States at
torney for Oregon and there are impor-
tant cases for TRIAL in that state. A re-
port has It that Mr.. Heney Is trying to
get the President to give Mr.. Bristol an
other nomination. despite the attitude Of
Attorney General Bonaparte in opposi-
ton. Officially. however. this is said to
Bristors being dropped out should have
been filled some time ago, but the two
senators. MessrB. Fulton and Bourne, are
unable to agree upon q man. Unless they
do 80 within a short time the President
Is likely to make a selection OF his own
and send the name to the Senate.
Fat Turkeys Distributed.
Something like one hundred fat turkeys
were distributed to the married men of
the White House today. the gift being
from the President. gift he has made
every Christmas since he has been in the
White House. The turkeys are all coun-
try raised and killed. special pains being
taken to see that they are the choicest
70 % had. They were distributed by
steward Pinckney, every married police
man and employee receiving one. The
custom Of giving turkeys to married en-
pioyes originated with President McKin-
ley ana was continued by Mr.. Roosevelt.
Hansbrough on Central Bank.
Senator Hansbrough Of North Dakota
says he has no expectation that his bill to
provide for the establishment of a central
bank OF issue will become a law at the
present session Of Congress. Mr.. Hans
brough does not believe that any measure
OF relief win prove effective unless it con-
tains some provision which will take
from the Secretary of the Treasury the
right to designate banks as government
depostories. He said he did not mean by
this to attack or criticise Secretary Cor
telyou for anything he had done in the
recent panic. but he believes the practice
10 pernictous.
20 extend the season's compliments to the
fTesident and Secretary Loeb. He will
leave for the west this week to remain
over the holidays.
Mrs Longworth to Be Moved.
Mrs. Alice Longworth is so much i'm
proved from her recent operation for ap-
pendicitis that she will probably be re-
xUeyed to her own home. s31 18th street.
on Thursday, VIII en- the President and
MIN Roosevelt will leave here with MEM
bers az the family for Pine Knot. Va, for
an outing Of four or five days in the coun-
Try. Representative Longworth said to-
o4y~thst the condition of Mrs. Longworth
was~qulte gratifying. and that she had
never been in danger.
Turning Out. Saint Gaudens' Coins.
Frank ~ Leach, director of the mint.
lexplatRed to the President some of the
changes that were necessary in the coin
age Of the new so gold piece Of the Saint
Gapdens designs. The first 5000 that were
strtck on were SO highly embossed that
ny would not stack. and for this reason
were Objectionable to the business world.
The coinage was stopped. and changes
made In the design. The raised figures on
t1e coins were reduced. and the date was
put In plain figures. instead of the Roman
nu1<1rals. The first coins struck OF are
now 41u1manding premiums of anywhere
from TO $40 each. So that the demand
for them may be supplied some more are
being struck OF.
Director Leach has issued orders that
begin next week at the Philadelphia mint.
These will be reproductions Of the $50 de-
sign now being turned off. All these
coins OF the Saint Gaudens type, approved
by the President. are without the motto
ssIn God We Trust :"