The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-10-15
CRIMINAL DOCK
FOR OIL
MEN

CMail Special to the Advertiser)
WASHINGTON D. c., September 80
The President has come and has gon'
again His special car is speeding
westward, and behind him is the real
ization of four feverish, pulsating, pro
| gressive days. The shadow of higf
officialdom was constantly athwart hi:
threshold They brought bundles O.
important official papers, which were
spread out on the broad mahogany
desk where the President sits and de.
liberates. Many important matters
were decided, as high officials were
aware while they folded up their bun.
dies of papers and started back fol
! their respective departments.
1t was a race against official tasks
for a bear hunt. The President sc
stated Thursday, when forty newspa-
per correspondents were admitted tc
the cabinet room for a half hours run
ming conversation. The country was
led to believe that he had decided to
go to the Louisiana canebrakes any
way AS a matter of fact, his deci-
sion to go bear hunting depended Upon
his ability to catch up with his work.
When his train departed from Wash
ington Sunday, the President had not
said whether he had caught up, but
well-informed people hereabouts be-
lieve he had and that the bear hunt
is a certainty. The extensive prep
arations for it are going forward in
Northern Louisiana. The nearer the
President gets to the hunting ground,
as he voyages down the Mississippi.
the greater the certainty that he will
go hunting. He wants to go.
FOUR STRENUOUS DAYS.
The country will be talking for a
month yet about the things the Pres
ident did in his strenuous four days.
He had an international tennis match
on the White House courts with the
Lord Bishop of London. He decided to
approve the constitution of the new
State of Oklahoma, although with a
wry face, because it's provisions do not
suit him and would have been dis
approved but for the mammoth ma
jority by which the people adopted the
new document. He conferred with
Special Attorney Kellogg, who is con-
Quoting the Standard Oil hearing, and
told him to go ahead and soak the
Standard Oil magnates-if possible, to
get them into the criminal dock. He
told vivid western anecdote, show
ing that he has not the slightest in
tention of recalling the orders for the
fleet to go to the Pacific. He conferred
about dozen important naval mat
ters, decided the award of contracts
for nearly sS,00O,OOO worth of subma-
rines, directed Secretary Metcalf TO
inquire why the navy is just letting
contracts for 24knot torpedo boat de-
stroyers, when foreign navies are
building 33-knot boats of the same
class, spent an hour and thirty-five
minutes discussing with representa-
tives of American vessels about the
advisability of letting contracts to
them for carrying 10000 tons of coal
to San Francisco. and finally gave di-
rections to the Navy Department as to
what should be done. He announced
that he approved of the appointment
of Wu Ting Fang as Minister from
China, although he had not had the
opportunity of consulting with the
State Department about it. And he
did a hundred other things that fill
ed his four days stay in Washing
ton with constant activity.
YOUNG ROOSEVELT HAS SNAKES.
A very unusual and thrilling incl
dent was a visit his young son Quen-
tin made to the White House offices
Thursday with three snakes. He had
one large king snake, which he threw
down upon his fathers desk, to the
CONSERVATION of Attorney General
Bonaparte, and two green snakes,
which were in paper bag. The Pres
ident shooed his snake-loving progeny
into an anteroom where Colonel "Pete"
Hepburn of Iowa and Postmaster Gen.
eral Meyer were waiting. The lad,
moving about on his ball-bearing roll
er skates, frightened the Postmaster
General away and gave "Uncle Pete"
the jimjams by enlisting his aid to
tin's) coat sleeve. 1t had crawled I'D
there so far that it's head was well
into the youngsters shirt. Snakes
have been his playmates at Oyster
Bay during the past summer. and two
of them were brought over on the
Presidential special Wednesday and
given to a local animal and bird
trainer for safe keeping during the
winter. This same bird and animal
trainer gave Quentin the snakes with
which the White House Offices thus
became acquainted.
THIRD TERM BROOM.
A flock of politicians, of course,
loomed in town with the coming of
the President. They had their favors
to ask and their conferences to hold.
1t was generally third term crowd
as politicians coming to Washington
these days to ask favors generally are.
senator McCumber of North Dakota
came to ask that one of the new 20
Ooo-ton battleships be named for his
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