Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-06
PREPARING TO LEAVE
From Now On Beverly Will Be
the Summer Capital.
MOVING OUT OF OFFICES
President Has Busiest Day That
Ever Happened.
SIXTY-ODD HIGH BROWS CALL
Tie Up Just Now in Ohio and Ken
lucky Patronage-Call Bur-
ton Piggish.
;IXTY.oDD HIGH BROWs CALL

President Tafts last day in Washing
ton for three months found him as
| busy as the proverbial bee with the
| hardest days work since he has been
| IN the White House. There was no time
| for golf, only a few minutes tor
luncheon and a rush from o'clock In
the morning until late afternoon. lie
| will leave town at $50 o'clock this
afternoon on the Boston express of the
| Pennsylvania railroad for Beverly,
| Mass, his summer home.
Over sixty senators and representa-
| tives went to the White House today TO
say goodbye or to take up beated
unfinished business. Many Of them did
not see the President, who did not sit
down at the head of the cabinet table
for the last regular meeting until after
II o'clock. The cabinet hour is IL
o'clock, but the President decided not
to turn away any of his visitors. and
continued seeing the stream of callers
until after the noon hour. The cabinet
members had assembled at the usual
hour.
The meeting continued until o'clock
when the President went to the White
House for light luncheon, returning to
the executive Offices to finish batch OF
correspondence and to dispose Of some
meeting also disposed of some unfnish-
ed business. No particular member of
the cabinet will sit on the lid in the alb
| sence of the President. In the Roose-
was always left in charge by Mr.. Roose-
welt.
Customs Court Appointments.
President Taft had not decided today
what he would do about the appointments
of judges and officials of the new customs
court to sit in Washington Congress.
while providing for the court in the tariff
10 1rfv
of appropriations for salaries of members
and others and expenses of the court.
There is no question that those aspiring
to the positions will be perfectly willing
to go to work at once and trust the gov
eminent to pay them some time in the
future. The President must decide wheth-
er he will organize the court in the next
few months or delay it's getting to work
until salaries and expenses are definitely
provided for.
Marion De vries, a member of the
board of general appraisers in New York.
who is talked of as one of the judges of
the new court, was introduced to the
President today by Senator Flint. The
California senators are urging Mr.. De
Vries for a judgeship on the court, and
think he will be appointed. Representa-
tive Payne of New York, who called to
tell the President goodbye, also has
candidate for one of the judgeships.
About Kentucky Patronage.
Senator Bradley and Representatives
Langley and Bennett of Kentucky had
another talk with the President today
about the seven or e1gnt important ap
pointments hanging fire in that state.
They also talked with Postmaster Cen
eral Hitchcock. who was at the Wnlte
House waiting for the cabinet meeting.
The President postponed action on .nese
appointments. The inside history OF these
appointments is that Senator Bradley ana
Representatives Langley and Bennett. to-
gether with Robert III. wynn, republican
state chairman, are in accord as 10 the
appointments, while Representa!lve . ho
wards Is not satisfied with the slate that
has been arranged and is holding out
against it. The President dislikes to make
appointments without perfect harmony
and will hold up everything TO see II a
satisfactory agreement cannot De redoheo
Trouble in Ohio, Too.
Senator's Burton and Dick also saw the
President today about appointments IN
that state They did not see him at the
same time however. me tru.n -; eney
ly as might be. They have never dWeit
together politically or personally In a
fraternal spirit. The Dick people ana
most of the newspaper correspondents III
Ohio charge Senator Burton with trying
to gobble up all appointments. giving no
consideration to Senator Dick, c. P. Taft
or even William II. Taft. They declare
that the Cleveland man wants all the
patronage to use for his own political
machine and holds out tenaciously for
his candidates fer positions. There are
some good places in dispute between the
senators-the post offices at ST. Marys
and Lima and the census supervisors IN
the fifth and sixth congressional districts
The President will probably do as he has
already done in similar instances-pick
personal friends who are not Endorsed by
either senator.
And Still They Come.
Representative Finley of South Caro-
lima today gave the President an invita-
ton from D. e. Johnston, president OF
Winthrop College. at Rock Hill, ). e., 10
stop in that town when he visits South
Carolina in November. The President SAID
that he did not know whether ne could
make the stop and asked Mr.. t1niey 70
see him when he visits Columbia, s. e.,
November g.
extended an invitation to the President
to visit Knoxville Tenn. but he Will not
be able to arrange the date.
Representative Griggs of Georgia urged
the President to stop In Albany. Ga;
and Representative Aiken again pressed
the President to stop in Anderson, D Z.
Senator Warner of Missouri saw the
President to recommend d. c. Reeves OF
st. Joseph, Mo-. for position 9,.l IN the the
new customs court. Senator stone has
already recommended Mr.. Reeves.
Thomas j. OBrien. ambassador of the
United States to Toxic, Japan, made
brief call on the President. Mr. O'Brien
is on leave of absence.
This Is Moving Day.
The executive Offices by tomorrow aft
ernoon will be vacant-no clerks, no fur
niture. Some of the furniture has al
ready been moved out and tomorrow
everything will be taken out. This Is TO
pcruit the contractors to get to work
on the new $4,000 addition to the eX-
oa..ti.-a ntRcns xrhn executive office staff,