The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-23
SATURDAY is DAY
OF ADJOURNMENT I
Congress Will Have Completed
It's Work by That
Time.
TAFT is A HAPPY MAN
He Is Particularly Pleased Over
Cordial Relations With
i. Roosevelt
TAFT is A HAPPY MAN

Washington, d. c.. June 22-Sa tur-
day for adjournment of Congress was
the word that went around the White
House to-day Senator Elkins said
Saturday: Senator Curtis said Satur-
day; Senator Burrows. the same; Rep
resentative Mann, Saturday or before,
so far as the House is concerned: prac-
tically everybody agreed on Satur-
day. The President was willing.
The President was in happy frame
of mind to-day, as he has been for
the last week or SO. The hearty IN
dorsement of the Minnesota Republl-
can Convention, with other informa-
ton reaching him. made him feel that,
after all. his work for the people OF
the country was appreciated
Taft-ROoseVelt Understanding.
Along with the satisfactory ending
of the session of Congress and the
widespread concentrations Is the mu-
tually agreeable understanding OF the
President and Colonel Theodore Roose-
welt that there is no friction between
them, but on the contrary resump-
tion of the close and cordial relations
that marked the two men Tor many
years. This knowledge that Colonel
Roosevelt has not been mentally pois-
oned by the attempts Of the PACK,
| from-Elba poison squad Is considered
| worth much to the ease of mind OF
the President at this time,
| At least four men who nave seen
Theodore Roosevelt since last Satur-
day, two of them on most intimate
i terms, having spent all OF SUNDAY
4 with him, have talked to the Presl-
dent. These men have brought the
most cordial messages from the ex-
President to the Chief Magistrate-
messages that insure no further pos
sibility of political or other misunder-
| standing.
Secretary Meyer. who went to New
York Saturday along with Secretary
Wilson to greet Colonel Roosevelt and
who remained at oyster Bay through
Sunday. and until Monday morning, Is
immensely pleased, 1t is said on good
authority, at the evidence that the en-
President-Nfully understands the situa-
tion in Washington and throughout
the country and is as great an admlreT
Of Mr.. Taft as ever. Senator Lodge
who spent Sunday with Mr. Roosevelt
at Oyster Bay has had n long. conf
Dental talk with the President. Sc
did Secretary wilson Another man
to bring back messages sympathetic
and kindly was Captain a, w. Butt
| former aid TO PRESIDENT tNppseF cit aha
holding the same position with Presl-
dent Taft.
Mr. Mann Was Serious.
! Representative Mann, OF Illinois, left
the Presidents offices this morning
smiling more broadly than usual. The
newspaper correspondent met him.
u IT came here to call the attention
Of the President to the dam bill" said
Mr., Mann.
"oh, heavens!" calculated a reporter
4 1.-THE bill Is a. general law for the
construction of dams over navigablt
streams. and I wanted the President tc
know something OF its details"
[ Senator Eikns called on the Presi-
dent with Judge Ira Robinson. OF tht
J Supreme Court OF West Virginia. ths
I youngest Supreme Court Justice in thu
UNITED States, President Taft wa.
himself the youngest man ever ap
pointed a Circuit Court Judge of thu
1 United States,