Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-10
:ARNHAM AT White HOUSE
SEEKS P0sTMAsTER'S PARDON

Commissioner Lane to Hold Hear
ing on Pullman Company Rates.
Over 200 Callers Today.
President Roosevelt is still collecting
| information as to the purchase of the
Panama canal. about which he and sew
eral leading newspapers have recently
contributed interesting chapters. One of
the PRESIDENTS visitors today was H. W.
Farnham. New York attorney, who as
sisted William Nelson Cromwell in all
the negotiations leading up to the pur-
CHASE or the canal, and continued in the
same capacity until everything had been
settled by the distribution of the $40
100000 paid for the canal.
Mr.. Farnham is said to know as much
ABOUT the whole Panama canal transac-
ZION as any man in the country. If he
does he didn't give any Of it to the public
today' merely saying that he had spent a
rev minutes with the President, not even
revealing the subject of the interview. It
IS surmised that the President has asked
Mr.. Farnham for some information. and
that he Will get 1t in written form.
West Virginia Collectorship.
President Roosevelt and the West Vir-
ginia senator's have not been able to agree
upon a man for collector OF internal rev.
enue In that state to succeed W. f. Glass
COCK. who was elected governor of the
state Senators Scott and Elkins have
given consideration to the question of
naming Fred Paul Grosscup Of Challes-
ton TO- a brother Of Judge Peter 8. Grosscup
OF chicago. for the position, but the
President is not falling into line with the
senator's. Senator Scott, who saw the
PRESIDENT today, did not find the Presi-
6ent responsive to the suggestion of Mr.
'rosscup. The senator's have not fully
agreed upon the Charleston man and it
Is now likely that they will turn to some
other candidate.
Favors High Pressure Water system
Representative julius Kahn of Califor-
MA favors high-pressure water system
for the District of Columbia, and will do
all he can to that end in the District
committee, of which he is a member
THE experience We had in San Fran
cisco was sufficient to make us under
stand the importance of high pressure
system, and think that a city like WASH
ington should have all possible protection
from fire.
Mr.. Kahn called OH the President.
Speaking of the sentiment on the Pacific
coast for larger navy. Mr.. Kahn says:
Il hope Congress will leave nothing I'M
done i'll the way of continuing the con-
struction of battleships. We favor all
the new vessels we can get
Are Pullman Fares Excessive.
Commissioner Lane of the interstate
commerce commission will hold a hearing
in Chicago next week on the question of
alleged excessive fares charged BY the
Pullman company in the northwest. The
hearing will especially bring out testi-
mony as to whether an upper berth
should be charged for at the same rate
as a lower. The complainant in the case
is George s. Lotus, who declares that
throughout the northwest the Pullman
fares are excessive and that the commits
sion ought to force the company to charge
less for upper bertias than for lowers. Mr..
Lane called on the President today be-
fore leaving Washington. Commissioner
Knapp, chairman of the interstate COM
mission. called on the President to thank
him for his nomination for another term.
Mr.. Sherman Favors Maddox.
Representative Sherman spoke a good
word to the President today, in behalf
of ex-Representative Maddox OF Rome.
Ga, who desires to be placed on the
Chickamauga battlefield park commission.
and who will probably be appointed. II
told the President that / served on the
same committees with Maddox and that
there is no better man in the country"
SAID MIR. Sherman, who declared that he
had not talked to the President on any
other matter.
Pardon Asked for Alabama Man.
Representative Richardson Of Alabama
introduced G. o. Chenault of Moulton.
Ala, an attorney, who Is here seeking a
pardon for DR.. J. T. Pitt, who was post
master at Florence. Ala, and has served
thirteen months Of an eighteen-month
term in the Atlanta prison for tampering
with the mails. 1t is declared that Pitt.
by reason of morphine and other dope,
was mentally irresponsible when he COM
mitted the effense. and that he ought to
be pardoned
The President referred his callers to the
Department Of Justice. where the appll-
cation will he passed upon and forwarded
to the President.
Overwhelmed With Visitors.
President Roosevelt has been literally
overwhelmed with visitors in the last few
days. There has been a constant stream
of callers. official and unofficial, ever
since Congress opened. Senator Simmons
of North Carolina began the work today
by introducing a party Of Lexington, n.
c., girls who have won voting contest
in the Lexington Dispatch. They were
accompanied by II. B. Warner. editor of
the paper. ard Mrs. Warmer. The party
has been to Richmond, and is now on its
way north.
Altogether the President met and shook
hands with two or three hundred persona,
including thirty or forty senators and
representatives.
Lodge to Talk on Brownsville.