Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-20
AT THE WHITE HOUSE
Big Reception for Senator
Knox Planned in This CITY.
PROMINENT MEN INVITED
President and Vice President and
Speaker Cannon Expected.
PENNSYLVANIA CLUB HOSTS
New Solicitor of Internal Revenue
Judge Wiley to Go Back.
to China.
PROMINENT MEN INVITED
PENNSYLVANIA CLUB HOSTS

II the Pennsylvania people can have
their way there will be big doings next
Wednesday night when the Pennsylvania
Club of this city honors Senator Phian-
der Knox by a reception at 1.th and *
streets. 1t is stated today that President
Roosevelt. Vice President Fairbanks. Sec
rotary Taft and Speaker Cannon will al
be present. making one of the most dis
tinguished gatherings of present power
and future possibilities that has been
known here in years. Gov. Hughes Will
also be invited as we'll as Senator La
Toilette. but the New York governor may
not be able to be present.
Representatives Moore and I.afean "i
Pennsylvania saw the President this
morning and personally extended him an
invitation to the reception. They declined
to say that the President had accepted.
but announced that they expected him
To be present. There is little doubt. IN
view of the Presidents we'll known adj
miration for his former attorney general.
that he will he on hand.
The reception promises to be one of
immense significance in MANY ways. One
outcropping OF tie various phases will be
the harmony shown by the various PreSl-
dental candidates and their Willingness
10 honor one of the most eminent of their
number in manner calculated TO do him
much good Another will be the spirit
the President shows toward Senator
Knox. who many people believe to be his
second choice. in the event of the failure
of Secretary Taft to land the nomination.
Preparations are in progress by the
Pennsylvania Club. probably the biggest
of the state organizations in Washington.
to make the reception a great tribute 10
the high esteem in which Senator Knox
is held by the great state he represents
in the upper house of Congress.
New Solicitor of Internal Revenue.
A. 3. Hayes. who has been solicitor Of
the internal revenue bureau number of
years. has handed his resignation to the
President. IT has been accepted and the
President today told Senator's Carter and
Dixon that he would nominate Fletcher
Maddox of Great Falls. Mont, to fill the
vacancy. Mr.. Maddox stands we'll with
the President. who has for some time de-
sired to give him good place in the
federal service. Mr.. Hayes, who is a
Utah man. intends to resume the private
practice of law in Washington. He has
made a good record in the internal reve
nue. bureau. where many knotty problems
have arisen.
a great surprise to the employees of
the internal revenue bureau He handed
his resignation to the President yestef-
day. being accompanied to the White
House by Senator Sutherland. At that
time he declined to talk about his visit.
Senator Sutherland states that the resig-
nation was entirely voluntary on the part
OF Mr.. Hayes. and was not made at the
wish of the President. The latter. it Is
stated, expressed his keen regret at the
severance of the official relations of the
solicitor with the administration. The
resignation is to take effect the :1st OF
this month.
Charles Dersch. president. and George
Wunner vice president of the Organiza-
ton of the survivors of the General Slo-
cum. in which disaster l.031 people lost
their lives called or the President today
with a delegation of the survivors. They
are here pushing a bill in Congress for
relief
Judge Whitley to Go Back.
Judge Wiley of the United States court
at Shanghai. after call at the White
House today, said he understood that the
full judiciary committee of the House
would next Wednesday consider the inn
parchment charges pending against him
in the House. The subcommittee has
reached decision and will make report
to the full committee The decision is
said to eXonerate Judge Whitley, who in
tends to return to his post as soon as tlr
House committee has acted in his b.
half.
Rev John l.. Scudder pastor of the
First Congregational Church of jersey
City. has written President Roosevelt
letter saying that ii will be fatal to he
republican ticket if Gov. Fort of Jew
Jersey should be nominated for Fice
President. The letter is probably tht re-
suit of the friendship between the Eresi-
dent and Mr.. Fort and of the talk that
the President fayors the New Jersey gov
ernor as the running mate of Secretary
Taft. Rev. Mr.. Scudder some tine ago
notified Gov. Fort that II the governor
opposed local option in that STATE he
would jeopardize his political future.
Presidential Nominations.
The President today nOmina ed James