Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-11
At THE White HOUSE
Many Visitors Received by
President Today.
COMMISSION TO GOLDFIELD
Messrs. Murray, Smith and Neill to
Leave This Afternoon.
MR.. BONAPARTE'S DENIAL
Will Not Outline Presidents Atti-
tude on Third Term in His
Speech in Chicago.
dR. B0NAPARTE's DENIAL


a special commission sent to Goldfield
New. to report the situation there to him;
talked about the conditions in the Congo
Free State with a returned missionary
and did many other things in a short
to spare before luncheon.
The decision to send commission of
his own to Goldfeld was quickly reached,
having been under consideration yester-
day, when the President talked with
Charles P. Neill, commissioner of labor.
and Samuel Gompers. president of the
American Federation of Labor The
President this morning sent for Lawrence
o. Murray, assistant secretary of the De-
partment of Commerce and Labor and
Herbert Knox Smith of the bureau of
corporations. and asked that they, to-
gether with Charles P. Nell, proceed at
once to Goldfield and make 3 careful in
vestigation of the situation. reporting to
him as promptly as possible. The COM
mission will leave Washington at 3:15
O. clock this afternoon.
Just what the President wishes in con-
nection with the strike and the sending
of special men to the field cannot be
ascertained. There have. however, been
some bitter criticisms of the President
sending troops there when there was, it
is claimed, no occasion for such action,
at least not at the time they were
dered
Uncle Joe Flabbergasted.
Speaker Cannon took the count for
few minutes today when surrounded by
crew of newspaper men. He had just
come out of the executive sanctorum, his
properly elevated cigar emerging with
him. He looked just too clipper for any
thing. The newspaper men began ask
ing him about the Clayton third-term
resolution.
what resolution do you mean? The
Bulwer-Clayton resolution? Oh, really.
boys. L don't know thing. 1 don't know
anything about this resolution. Further
more. 1 don't care: l don't suppose the
President cares. either
DO you mean that he doesn't care
about it in Its present position?"
The cigar dropped few degrees and
Uncle Joe took at least ten seconds.
Then he said: 'Oh, boys. I don't know
thing
Then Mr.. Williams.
Later came John Sharp Williams. Some.
body had asked him about that third term
resolution, but he declared that his only
business with the President was to speak
about a friend in the navy. 1t was no
business of his, he said, to talk about the
Clayton resolution with the President.
You see, he sal, with a wink. me and
Cannon and the President understand
each other
Representative Caulfield of st. Louis,
who wants to have Oscar Whitelaw APP
| pointed postmaster of ST. Louis in place
of Postmaster Frank Wyman, said he
didn't know what the President would do
about the appointment.
What Did It Meanp
| conference by Postmaster General
Meyer and Assistant Postmaster General
| Hitchcock with the President attracted
some attention in view of the emphasis
| the President has again laid on prohibi-
ton of the work of federal oficeholders
for third term for himself. Mr.. Hitch
cock, while at the head of the Cortelyou
forces, has consistently worked among
southern republicans for delegations in
structed for a third term. Under the
| Presidents orders Mr.. Hitchcock will be
| compelled to cease his labors in this di-
rection. There have been suggestions
| that he is displeased with the views of
| the President on this and other matters
and contemplates resigning. 1t was Off
| cially stated, however, that Mr.. Hitch
cock had given no intimation of that sort
| today.
Attorney General Bonaparte, who called
on the President today. said there is not
| the least truth in Chicago dispatch that
| he will make an address there December
2, and outline the Presidents attitude on
| a third term. He said he was going to
Chicago as the guest of the Chicago Ath-
| letic Club and would make no mention in
his speech of the subject referred to.
No Reforms in the Kongo.
\ Rev. NJ. Martin, a missionary of the
Southern Presbyterian Church. who has
lived in the Kongo Free State number
| of years. was introduced to the PreSi-
dent by Representative Brownlow of Ten
nessee Mr.. Martin told the President
| that the alleged reforms inaugurated
by the Belgian government in the Kongo
country were absolute fakes and that con-
dtiops there were as deplorable as ever.
Licensed immortality and the slave traf-
| fic flourish on all sides. and the natives
are treated with the greatest barbarity"
| said Mr.. Martin. who showed the Presi-
dent stick made from the hippopotam mus
hide, with which the natives are thrashed
| for all sorts of things. Mr.. Martin ex-
pressed the hope that the United States
would join in putting a stop to the out
RACES and abuses that are prevalent.
England he said. is ready for action, and
only awaits assistance from this country.
| The Harvester Trust.
| Herbert Knox Smith, whose bureau Of
corporations has been conducting an in
Ivestigation of the harvester trust for a
number Of months in answer to the
Hansbrough resolution of the last Con-
gress, said today that the investigation
had not yet been completed, and that it
would be some time before the bureau
was ready to submit it's findings to the
Senate. AS to the alleged prosecution
] Of the harvester trust. which has been
hanging fire in the Department Of JUS
tice for number of months, Mr.. Smith
did not know. Attorney General Bona
parte stated this summer that his inves-
LEGATIONS had been completed and that
he stood ready to take action, but he
thought it advisable to do nothing until
the bureau of corporations had COM
pleted it's work.
Inland Waterways Projects.
Representative Small of North Caro-
lima, who has for a long time promoted
the scheme for an inland waterway from
Norfolk to Beaufort. n. c., talked with
the President today about the advisable
Iitv of joining all the deserving plans
for such waterways into one. so that,
when completed, they will extend from
Cape Cod to Beaufort.-N. C. The Presi-
dent told Mr.. Small that his considera-