The Washington times., 1911-04-25
Leaves Washington Tomor-
row Morning and Will Re-
turn Early Friday.
WANTS ASHFORD TO
GO TO PORTO RICO
President Would Make Him Head
of Sanitary Department of
Island.

President Taft will leave Washington
at II o'clock tomorrow morning for New
York, where he will spend two days.
and where he will fill exactly eleven
enHaRements, If he follows the schedule
mapped out now.
It is planned that the Executive Will
reach New York on Wednesday AFTER
noon before dinner. He will be re-
ceived by the Military Order Of Foreign
Wars as soon as he arrives In the
metropolis, and after that reception he
will go to the home of his brother,
Henry w Taft.
After leaving the Taft home the Presl-
dent expects to dine at the home OF
Miss Winifred Holt, secretary for the
Association for the Blind. Later he will
omen the Industrial Exposition OF the
Blind at the Metropolitan Opera House.
From there he will go to the armory OF
the Seventy-tirst Regiment for a re-
view of that command. From the
armory the President will go to the din
ner of the Sixty-ninth Regiment, and
will end the nights festivities at sup
per to be given by the Hungarian Re
publican Club.
Thursdays Program.
On Thursday the President will lunch
with Henry Clewsr the financier. Ihat
night he will be the guest of the Amerl-
can Newspaper Publishers Association.
Later in the evening the Executive Will
go to Sherry's as the guest of the Meth
odist Social Union. Later still he will
look in at the dinner of the Aeronautl,
cal Society at the Waldorf, and sui
later he will go TO dinner at the same
hotel given in honor of J. Van Nechten
Olcott, former member OF Congress
shortly after midnight the President
will leave for home, expecting to arrive
in Washington in time for breakfast
President Taft is anxious to have
bill passed giving him authority TO or,
der Major Bailey X. Ashford. Medical
Corps, L. S. A, to Porto Rico as head
island He conferred today with Rep
resentative Olmsted, after having talk
ed the matter over with Governor COL
ton Of Porto Rico. DR.. Ashford is the
man who did more than any other indi-
vidual in the hook-worm crusade in the
South. He is regarded as the best sani-
tartan in the army.
Haywood'S Attitude
It was learned this morning at the
White House that George P. Haywood,
of Lafayette, Ind, VIII ohad been con-
sidered for the marshalship of Indiana,
has told his friends here that he will
not be a candidate for the First As
sistant Secretaryship of Interior in the
place Of Frank Pierce, resigned. 1t was
known that the President looked ia
VorS~bly upon Mr.. Haywood, but his
claims will not be pressed now.
Speaker Clark called to see the Pres-
dent today and when asked about Sen
ator Roots early adjournment idea, said
that be had sat in two Congresses in
extra session. both called to revise the
tariff and that both had convened in
April and boti adjourned in August.
lie said he expected the present Con-
gress to do about the same thing.
The President is in receipt of letter
from Mrs. Charles W Morse asking
him to give her some idea of the status
Of the Morse pardon case. She said that
she could get no information through
her attorneys and therefore appealed
direct to the President for it.
The reply is that the President is now
considering this case and that he eX-
poets TO make an announcement with
regard to il in a few days.
The President today upon the rec
ommendatiOn of Secretary of the
Interior Fisher ordered 223,545
acres of land in New Mexico to be
withdrawn from all forms of dispo-
sitton and reserved for examination
and classification with respects to
coal value The Geological Survey
reported to the Secretary that these
lands contained valua BILE deposits of
coal.