Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-11
President Accepts Invitation.

President Roosevelt today accepted an
invitation rendered by Commissioner Mac
farland. during brief visit to the exec
utive offices this morning, to attend the
laying of the corner stone of the Colored
Y NJ c. A. building, on 18th street, at
$50 o'clock on the afternoon of Thanks
giving day. This is the building for which
the colored people of Washington raised
$4,000 among themselves from contri-
buttons, large and small, from people OF
their own color.
MIR. Macfarland also handed to the
President the resignation of Prof. G. NJ.
Lightfoot of Howard University as a
member of the board of charities and
recommended the appointment of Prof.
G. w. Cook. who was Prof. Lightfoots
predecessor on the charities board. and
who resigned. at Mr.. Macfarland's re-
quest. to undertake the superintendency
of the Industrial School for COlored Chill
dren here. the first of it's kind in the
United States. This work took Prof. Cook
eighteen months. but now he has finished
it and will resume his old place on the
charities board, and Mr.. Macfarland's s
recommendation will be accepted.
Mr.. Macfarland said he didn't know who
would be the chairman of the inaugural
committee. although he understood the
appointment would soon be announced
by Chairman Frank H. Hitchcock of the
republican national committee. Mr.. Mac
farland remarked that in this case, in
others. the office should seek the man,
but that he considered it wise for candi
dates to be standing around in plain
view.
Tariff tinkerers at the special session
next spring cannot eliminate the Rocky
mountain section from their calcula-
tions. even though it seems far removed
from the immediate tariff restrictions OF
states handling a greater bulk of inn
ported goods. Senator Sutherland of
Utah. who was morning caller. said
his state wants four lines protected at
least as much as at present These are
sugar, wool. lead and cattle. In pro-
portion to the number of acres under
cultivation and factories in operation
there, there is more beet sugar produced
than an any other state, he said. The
mines of the state are low-grade silver
and high-grade lead and any tinkering
with mineral schedules will affect all
similar lines. On wool and hides the
western ranchmen stand together, o.
course and the senator expressed the be-
lief that Congress will not do anything
TO imperil such a great industry of the
west.
Mr.. Burton q Caller.
Representative Theodore Burton of
Ohio called to pay his respects" When
he left the executive offices after quite
a little chat with President Roosevelt. Mr..
Burton deplored the shocking weather,
jubilated in a gentle, scholarly way over
the results of the national election, opin-
ed that perhaps the tariff was about TO be
revised and declined kindly but firmly to
discuss the Ohio n2torship, cabinet
job for himself or his own chances of
election to the speakership of the House
in the Sixty-first Congress to succeed
Uncle Joe Cannon.
Secretary of State Root introduced to
the President this morning Don Joquin
ID CaSSasuS, former Mexican ambassador
To the United States who was accompa
MED by Jose r. Godoy, the present charge
d'affaires of the Mexican embassy. Mr..
Cassasus has been mentioned as a likely
successor to Enrico Creel, the present am
bassador. but upon leaving the executive
offices this morning he threw cold water
on the report. declaring thehe was no truth
| in il. and that his visit was without sig
niicance. as he had called merely to pay
his respects.
Moore Wants Cabinet Speakers.
President j. Hampton Moore called on
the President in the interests of the At
lantic deeper waterways project There
will be a convention on this proposition
in Baltimore. November II. IS and 10 and
Mr.. Moore wants the President to write
d letter on the conservation of the natural
resources of the country, TO be read at
one of the sessions. He also urged the
President to designate at least two mem
bers of his cabinet to address the dele
gates one of the three days.
There will be delegates from about
twenty states at the convention which
has for its object the pushing of the pro-
ject OF an inland water route from Boston
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