Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-05
President May Urge Passage
of Wireless Telegraph Bill.
GETS COMMISSION REPORT
Nominations Of Judges in Hawaii
Announced.
DELAY IN SELECTING CABINET
Some Surprise Expressed That Mr..
Taft Has Not Made Known
Names Of His Advisers.

President Roosevelt has received q
report from a commission appointed by
him last spring to revise and codify
the laws applying to safety of life ut
sea. The members of the commission
are Admiral Mark, chairman of the
lighthouse board, chairman; Solicitor
Earle of the Department of Commerce
and Labor; Eugene T. Chamberlain.
commissioner of navigation in the same
department: George Uhler. supervising
inspector general of the same depart
ment, and Lieut.. Strother Smith of the
navy.
The report was presented today by
Admiral Mark, who was presented to
the President by Secretary Straus. The
two callers said they could not discuss
the report, which they presumed would
be sent to Congress by the President
as special message.
The report contains number of recon-
mendations, among them one for the en-
actment of a law compelling the placing
of wireless telegraph apparatus upon large
steam and sailing vessels. There Is a bill for
this purpose pending, and it is probable
that in transmitting the report to Con-
gress the President will urge the pas
sage of such bill as soon as possible.
Hawaiian Judgeship Nominations.
President Roosevelt today sent to the
Senate the following nominations: Alex
ander Lindsay, jr., to be second judge of
the circuit court of the first circuit of
Hawaii: Arthur A. Wilder, to be associate
justice of the supreme court of the terri
tory of Hawaii; Hugh Taylor, to be re-
ceiver of public moneys at Denver. Colo.
Not After a Position.
l.. r. Whitley, who was judge of the
United States court at Shanghai, China.
for number of years, and who has been
succeeded by Rufus Thayer of this city,
has been calling at the White House a
number of times recently, and there have
been rumors that the President intended
to appoint him to some position in this
country. Mr.. Whitley said today that he
was not seeking another appointment and
did not expect one: that his conference
with the President had related to Ameri-
can affairs in China, especially Shanghai.
There are good many rogues left in
Shanghai yet, but / am sure that Judge
Thayer. backed in a determined manner
by other American officials, will clean
them out in good time. The courts of the
other countries In Shanghai are working
along Tie lines ] WORKED ana also along
the lines Judge Thayer will work. Shang-
hal was the most corrupt town in China,
and the rogues were SO strongly in
trenched there that 1t has been difficult
to clean them out"
An Entirely New Cabinet.
All the information drifting toward
the White House this week confirms The
Stars story Of recent date that the Taft
cabinet will be made up of new men,
without any of the members Of the
present cabinet. It is declared on good
authority today that the only possible ex
ception to this Is George Won L. Meyer.
now Postmaster General. The greatest
disappointment is expressed regarding
the case of Secretary Wilson. His friends
know that he has not received any offer
of a cabinet place, and they are begin
ming to fear that he is to be succeeded
by another man.
Members of the present cabinet continue
to express surprise that the personnel of
the Taft cabinet is a mystery so long.
One member of the cabinet remarked a
few days ago that II he knew who his
successor would be he could probably
settle a large number of questions that
will be left hung up in the air when he
goes away. He could confer in advance
with the new official and they might
reach an understanding on a number of
questions. He thought Mr.. Taft was pos
sbly unwise in not having selected his
cabinet before this