Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-24
PARTMENT SHIFT
Substitution of Public Works
for Interior Suggested.
BILL WILL BE PREPARED
Mr.. Weeks Sees President on Postal
Savings Banks Measure.
MIR. TAFT TO RECEIVE DEGREE
Will Be Made Doctor of Jurispru-
dence by Pennsylvania Institu-
tion-Spanish Minister Calls.
BILL WILL BE PREPARED
MIR. TAFT TO RECEIVE DEGREE

| tion-SpaniSh Minister Calls.
A suggestion has been made that the
| Interior Department be abolished by Con-
| gress, and another department. to be
known as Public Works. be substituted
for it. 1t is said that President Taft may
consider the proposition this summer.
when he gets to Beverly and is no,
rushed with legislative problems.
The creation of a Department of Public
Works is favored on grounds of economy,
and is said to be in no way involved with
the Balinger-PinchOt troubles. The idea
is to include in the new department prac-
ticaly every bureau and undertaking
that could properly be placed there. such
as the Panama canal, the marine hospital
service and other health agencies. the
forestry service. now under the Depart
ment of Agriculture, ard number of
Others making the department. about the
biggest and most important in the gov
eminent.
If reports are true. the attempt to make
the changes outlined will come at the
next session of Congress. whether Presi-
dent Taft does or does not make a recon-
mendaton to that effect. The who'll
SCIef1e Is DeiiS lHOtSit out pN a pi
nent senator. who will prepare a bill, ac-
cOrding to the story.
Not Favored by President.
There is probably little chance that the
President will advocate any dill along the
lines suggested. 1t would entail a vast
reorganization under new name. y new
department has for some time been sug-
gested to take in many of the bureaus
it is proposed to add to the Interior De-
partment under it's new name.
Representative Weeks had a long talk
with the President today about the postal
savings banks bill. now before the House.
Mr.. Weeks said he heSitated to make any
predictions as to the fate of the bill in
the republican caucus to begin tomorrow.
1t had been impossible for him to see and
talk with the more than POO republicans
of the House. He was in much doubt, he
said. whether the caucus would dispose of
the BILL as it was desired that every sec
ton and paragraph should be thoroughly
gone over and voted upon. so that the
measure agreed upon in conference
could be made the bill of the republicans
of the House.
Reports reaching the President are that
the republicans in caucus will stand by
the administration idea of a postal saw
ings bank bill regardless of whether the
bill as reported from the committee is ac-
cepted as a whole.
Will Attend Commencement.
President Taft is to receive the degree
of doctor of Jurisprudence from the col
lege of st. Thomas. Villanova. Pa,
June IS. He will be present at the
commencement exercises at Villanova
that day. Villanova has conferred the
degree upon only three men during it's
history-eX-P President Cleveland Judge
George Gray and Baron Hengelmuller,
the Austrian minister.
The President is in much demand for
college commencements. and will be
present at number of them.
He is going to the college al Bryn
MaWr, where his daughter Is being edu-
Gated, June >. The following day. June
;. he will be at Ada, Ohio. and take part
in the exercises of the Ohio Northern
University. June - he will be at his
alma mater Yale. where he will spend
several days. He will also attend Trim
ity College commencement in this city.
President Taft will spend Memorial day
in New York. reviewing big parade
there, returning to Washington the same
day.
The President today promised to go 10
Knoxville. Tenn. some time between
September II and October II when the
Appalachian exposition will be held in
that city. The President today talked
with Representative Austin and Sanford
+Cohen, the assistant to the general man
aSer of the exposition.
For Mining Bureau Head.
Charles f. Schwarz. a we'll known min
ing engineer at Joplin, Mo-. is being
pushed by Senator Warner and Repre-
sentatives Elvins and Morgan of Missouri
for director of the new bureau of mines
The President has not made the appoint
ment, but is said to be strongly inclined
to Prof. Holmes. now OF the geological
survey.
Senator Burrows and NJ. J. Mcleod
collector OF Internal revenue of the frs
Michigan district, called OH the PreSi-
dent this morning. Tine visit was rer-
sonal Senator Burrows said
Don Juan Riano Gayangas, the new
minister from Spain, was received by
President Taft this afternoon, when
there was d courteous exchange of cor
dial words
Another distinguished visitor was
Gen. Don Juan T.. Paredes minister
from Honduras He has Il special mis-
sion from his country. which lie talk
ed to the President about
Well Known Here.
Mnis,cr Riano is we'll known to the
residents OF Washington through his
service here several years ago as secre-
tary of the Spanish legation. He re-
ceived that appointment shortly after the
Spanish war in 1895, and during several
years he frequently served as charge of
the legation. In 1904 he married Miss
Alice Ward, Il granddaughter of Mrs.
John Ward of this city. Since then he
has represented his country in a diplO-
matte capacity at Copenhagen and
chrstiania.
He first entered the Spanish diplomatic
service in March 1856 and during his
early career was private secretary to
Queen Christina. He subsequently rep
resented his country at BosotO, London
anu Paris. He now nolds the Office of
envoy extraordinary and minister pleni-
potentiary.
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