Evening star., 1909-07-01
TAFT CONSIDERS PROJECT
May Urge Congress to Create One
Great Department.
NAGEL CALLS ON PRESIDENT
Discusses Proposed Shake-Up to Gust
Inefficient Employes-Bradley
Blames Talkative Senator'S.

President Taft has received from DR..
Walter Wyman. surgeon general of the
marine hospital service. a report bearing
upon the long talked of proposition to
consolidate all bureaus and establish
ments OF the government having to do
with the public health.
Committees of prominent physicians
once laid the matter before President
Roosevelt. Eho favored such a consolida-
ton Win President Taft came into
Office he -sked for reports from the
bureaus Interested. These are beginning
TO come IN.
The intention of the President Is to
gather the information with a view to
a recommendation to Congress in De-
cember.
The proposed consolidation would mean
putting into one establishment the ma
rine hospital service, with its hundreds
of surgeons and other employees; the pure
food bureau of the Department of Agri-
culture with its hundreds of inspectors
and other employees, the sanitation
agencies of the government operatlng in
the Philippines. Panama and elsewhere;
the medical inspection of aliens arriving
in the United States ar1 various minor
bureaus. The establishment would be so
large and important that 1t is possible
the President may recommend new ad-
ministrative department. to be known as
the department of public health and
safety or something of that kind
Nogel in Conference With Taft.
Secretary NageI was in conference with
the President today, no doubt in refer
ence to published stories that many en-
ployes of the Department OF Commerce
and Labor are to be dropped from the
rolls as useless. while many others are
70 he rod NaCel iS understand
to have informed the President that
many of the printed stories have been
wild, especially those which attempt to
estimate the percentage of employees like
ly TO be affected by the action to be
taken.
Secretary Nagel asked his bureau chiefs
for reports as to useless clerks under
them. He has not received from all these
chiefs their reports. He has no idea him.
self how many employees will be brought
within the range OF the official ak.
He has not gone over all the reports
at his disposal. Nothing will be done un-
til he has complete set of reports and
is able to study them all with relation to
their connection with each other.
Bradley Talks Legislation.
Senator Bradley of Kentucky conferred
with the President about the legislative
situation in Congress.
I'VE ought to get through our work in
the Senate in a week or ten days" said
the Kentucky senator, and put the
work up to the House. 1t seems to me
we ought to be able to adjourn by Au-
gust l, at the outside.
But for the long speeches in the Sen
ate we would have been through by July
10. l know one senator who has made
five speeches of six hours each during
this session. l suppose he has another
load or two ready"
overrun With Cockroaches.
The man with the sure cure for cock
reaches has an opportunity now to get
in his work with Secretary Carpenter.
The executive offices of the White House
are overrun with the pests.
A messenger went around today with
q little PAIR of bellows loaded with a
powder which he injected into cracks in
some of the rooms. Bugs poured out
by the hundreds and fastened for new
crevices where the powder had not been
put.
The insects are doing considerable
harm. They have increased in such
large numbers and find SO little to eat
tnat they have begun TO attack carbon
paper and other stationery.
President Returns From Yale.
President Taft got back to the White
House at 1O:30 o'clock this morning. His
train from New York was more than half
an hour late. He arrived at the Union
station at 1920 O'Clock. The President
left New Haven. Conn. where he had
gone to attend the Yale commencement
exercises, at midnight last night.
The return of the President that late
in the morning prevented visitors going
TO the White House. The executive saw
only few people. among them Secretary
Nagel, Senator Bradley of Kentucky and
Representative HUFF OF Pennsylvania, The
President disposed of considerable accu-
mulated correspondence before his lunch
con hour, 130 o'clock, and this afternoon
went out for golf game.