Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-11-24
FROM WASHINGTON

Is liONl w A0IlINOI OAN
Thanksgiving day at the White
House for President Taft was a pro
gramme Of work, church work, anC
dinner at 7:30 with the biggest turkey
that has ever graced the White House
table. The executive was engaged
with stenographer by 8 O'Clock and
worked steadily clearing up his cor
respondence until Mrs. Taft in one Of
the big automobile came around to the
executive offices and took him with
her TO church at st. Patricks Catholic.
I'm the afternoon, the president and
Secretary Norton began mapping out
the message. The Thanksgiving din
ner will be served at 1880, with Horace
Voses recording breaking 81 pound
turkey the piece de resistance. Those
who partook Of the feast were the
president. Mrs Taft, Miss Helen Taft
and her four house guests. Miss
Thyllis Rice, Miss Marion Crane, Miss
Isabel Vincend, Miss Gordon Hamil-
ton. Neither Robert nor Charley Taft
was present. The former is at Harvard
and the latter at his uncle's prepare
cory school in Connecticut.
The Dix boom for president in 1917
was started here today by some enthus
iastic friends OF the governor elect Of
New York. The boom takes the form
Of handsome photograph OF the White
House, on which the boomers inscrib-
cl the words: Your next moye-from
Albany To Washington This is where
we hope to welcome you two years
hence" 1t was forwarded TO the gov
ernOr elect today
Theoretically speaking mo admit
lance" sign will be displayed on the
door OF President TaJt's sauctum for
the next four days. This applies
particularly to lame ducks" con-
gressmen, Job seekers, and plain visit
tors. The president is bending every
energy to complete his message before
December /. He has already dictated
portions Of it while at sea going and re-
turning from Panama The document
is practically mapped out and all that
cmains is its actual dictation. In or
det that be may he free from inter
rurtion Secretary Norton has plastered
the no admittance sign on the presl-
dent room and under no circumstances
will the executive see anybody, except
cabinet officers, from now until No
veniber 90. Even on Thanksgiving
day, several congressman put in an APP
pcamnco at the White House, hoping
for a conclab, but Secretary Norton
was stern aud unrelenting. Repre-
sentatiyes Kennedy and Dwight left
without getting Into the sanctum.
I'VE will get ready to do business
Immediately after the fall Of the speak
er's gayel, and be busy every moment
ND until March 4. " This is the con-
gressional programme for the coming
session. announced tod ~ at the White
House by Representative Dwight OF
New York, the republican whip of the
House. Members have been request
ed TO be here ready for business and
ve expect to be on the Jump through
out the session, Dwight concluded. q"
He was unwilling to make any predic-
ton as the programme to be considered.
Members Of the Railway Business
Association who were reported to have
said that they would go out of business
II the railroads were not allowed to in
crease rates were summoned by the In
terstate Commerce Commission today
to appear before it and give testimony
in the investigation which is now in
progress. Tho commission sent dis
patch to the president OF the associa-
ton at the Waldorf Hotel, New York,
informing him that they would be glad
to hear what he had to say The Rail
way Business Association is composed Of
manufacturers and dealers who sell
supplies of every kind to the railroads.
Their sales to the railroads amounts
to hundreds Of million OF dollars an
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