Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-27
HUNGARIAN CLUB CALLS
Only Two Cabinet Members at To-
days Meeting.
THEY WILL GO ON THE STUMP
Action Desired in the Application Of
Mingo Sanders-Labor Leaders
Report Observations.

| fTeS1Qent fSOOSeNelt 8 n1tleCn dnnlNer-
sary of his birth today was devoid of
unusual features. He had fewer visitors
| than on any day in several weeks, but
| found upon his desk on reaching his
office beautiful floral tribute from Capt
Poole and employees of the public
grounds of the city. together with a
large number of kilograms that had ar
rived. These continued to come in dur
ing the day. some from abroad Several
other handsome floral pieces also arrived
before noon. In the afternoon at 2:3O
o'clock, a delegation from the Hunga-
rian Republican Club of New York made
| its birthday call, a yearly event, con-
graduating the President and telling
him of the great esteem in which he is
held by Hungarians throughout the coun-
| try The delegation consisted of Mar
/ Gus Braun, Dr. Adolph I. Eichhorn, Ar
mold Somlyo, Sigmund Neustadt and
Emile Kiss. The President replied In
kindly terms to the good wishes OF his
visitors.
| Today was cabinet day at the White
House, but there were only two cabinet
officers present. Secretaries Cortelyou and
Wright. All the other members Of the
| cabinet are out on the stump. and these
| two will get out at once for the same
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New York Thursday night. while Secre-
| tary Wright will speak in Richmond to-
morrow night and in Baltimore Friday
night.
For an International Standard.
DR.. Paul Dvorkovitz editor of the Pc
troleum Review of London, and dis-
tinguished authority on petroleum, was
introduced to the President by David l.
Day of the geological survey. DIR. Dvor-
koyitz will be one of the delegates to the
international congress of oil experts TO
be held in this country early next sep
tember to try to reach an agreement upon
an international standard for the meas
urement of OIL He believes there should
be such a standard and will 90 all ne
can to bring about one he VIII Iepl1
sent Great Britain at the conference;
Bishop NJ. c. Harris. missionary plsnop
of the Methodist Episcopal Church for
Japan and Korea. paid his respects 10 tne
President and congratulated him on ms
birthday Bishop Harris said tnat tns
visit of the American Meet 70 JaPan ;a1s,n,u meu
of the two countries. Japan is one Oh
the best friends this country has, SAID
Bishop Harris. "and her people "ere
much hurt at talk In this country tnat
she was plotting to take the Philippines.
Tbera never was a worse error than this.
rev DIR. ]. Leonard Levy of Pittsburs
called to wish the President many more
birthday anniversaries.
Case Of Mingo Sanders.
Napoleon b. Marshall. the attorney for
Mineo Sanders was hunting around the
White House today for information as to
the possible action to be taken upon the
case of his client who was a sergeant or
the o5th Infantry at Brownsville and was
among the men dismissed there for al
legged participation in the Brownsville
riots Sanders was dismissed nearly two
wears ago. and seeks reinstatement with
ont having to re-enlist, representing that
had he been allowed to remain in the
army he would now be eligible to retire
ment with pay under the continuous serV-
ice law.
Marshall said he was told by Secretary
Loeb that he knew nothing of the applica-
ton but supposed 1t was IN the nandS OF
Secretary Wright. Sanders is a night
watchman in Washington" said Marshall.
..IIa is working for the contractors on the
new Senate annex at the Capitol. we are
desirous of having the matter disposed OF
without delay. as Sanders has an oHer OF
a good position that he must give answer
to this week l suppose. however. no an
nouncament will be made until after the
election. President Roosevelt waited until
after the election two years ago 10 ois-
miss the colored soldiers.
From authoritative SouisCS II "tiS
learned that Secretary Wright has the
napers on his desk, but considers IL I'M
nossible to do anything. He cannot
change the law and is of the opinion that
Sanders will have to go TO congress lot
authority to be reinStated
He has been out of the army far beyond
| the time fixed by law when he could nave
re-enlisted. although he claims that ne
desired to be reinstated within the Tune.
but was prevented from dong so unoer
| the orders of the President.
Philippine Delegate to Congress.
| Pablo Ocampo de Leon. one of the resi-
| dent commissioners of the Philippine Is
! lands to this country. called on the Presl-
| dent today with his secretary, A. q. Es-
| camilla The President was with cabinet
! officers and de Leon will call tomorrow.
| He wants to urge the President to dis
| cuss Philippine matters in his message.
/ and especially 10 recommend that sugar
| and tobacco. the products OF the ISLANDS.
| he admitted to this country free OF duty.
| They also hope tha. the President will
| recommend to Congress the extension OF
/ political privileges in the Islands.
| Commissioners Knapp and Clark OF the
| Interstate commerce commission con-
| ferred with the President on work being
done by that body.
Gov. Post Exonerated.
The President has sent to the Methodist
Preachers Association of New York city
a reply to a letter of inquiry last week re-
garding charges brought to- its attention,
anonymously. and considered in its ses-
sion against Gov. Regis III. Post of
Porto Rico. II was alleged in these
| charges that the governor was hostile to
church people. President Roosevelt, III
his letter, told the ministers that the
charges referred to an incident of fifteen
months ago. but that they were investi-
gated thoroughly at the time by a COM
mite of the Senate and by it pronounced
baseless before the appointment of Mr.
Post to his present position was confirmed
by the Senate.
President Dolan's Report.
T. j. Dolan. president of the Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Steam Shovelmsn n
and Dredgers called on President Roose-
Welt yesterday afternoon and talked with
him regarding the political situation. Mr..
Dolan has just returned from a trip
through Indiana, Ohio and New York. and
he told the President that as result of
his observations and fpefn reports OF sew
eral organizers of the brotherhood the
labor vote seems to be pretty evenly