Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-16
Expects to Make Rapid Prog
ress With Canadian Bill.
FIX DATE FOR A VOTE
May Be Possible at End of Two
Weeks, He Thinks.
PRESIDENT IS IN DEMAND
Invitations Continue to Reach
White House From All Parts
of the United States.

We will make rapid progress on the
reciprocity bill within the next two
weeks said Senator Penrose. chairman
of the Senate finance committee, at the
White House today. land at the end OF
that time We ought to see ahead date
for a vote on agreement Many senators
are now prepared to speak on the meas
ure and others are getting in readiness
so there is promise of reaching a vote
with more speed than has yet been
shown
Senator Penrose talked with the Presi-
dent about the situation and found Mr.
Taft pleased at the prospect of at last
getting action in the Senate on the long
talked-of treaty. Senator Penrose has
been able all along to assure the Presi-
dent that the Canadian agreement will
go through the Senate with many votes
to spare. The information in the Presi-
idents hands is that the bill has sixty
votes in the Senate and that the Root
amendment will be killed by a comfort
able majority.
Thinks Critics Hypocritical.
Intimations by opponents of reciprocity
that President Taft is holding up the
naming of an ambassador to Berlin and
other patronage has brought from the
President the expression that 1t is hypo-
critical to suggest that he is using pat
ronage, when he has been trying hard to
put under the civil service thousands OF
positions in the federal service at the dis
position of senators. The President told
callers that he has consistently recon-
mended to Congress that the duty of
naming collectors of internal revenue,
United States marshals and postmasters
be taken from his hands. He said that
he proposed to continue his efforts to
have these officials placed under the civil
service and removed from politics. If
this was done, he said. there would be lit
tie opportunity for assertions by hypO-
critical politicians that the White House
was using patronage for purposes of Its
own in connection with legislation or
politics.
President Taft will take his family to
Beverly Saturday. July I, for the sum-
mer. Having established Mrs. Taft and
the children In the new Taft cottage
there, the President will leave some time
Sunday for Indiana. He will reach Ma
rion at noon Monday, July 3, and there
de will speak to the bankers and editors
of the state. He will reach Indianapolis
of former Vice President Charles W.
Fairbanks. July Fourth he will give to
the people OF the city. spending the day
as the guest of the Marion Club, the lead
ing republican organization of the state.
His schedule for the day is an extensive
one. and will include the witnessing of
a parade by the safe and sane advocates
of the great national holiday.
The President will return to Washing
ton direct from Indianapolis.
Is Invited to Texas.
The knights of Columbus of Texas to-
day gave the President a cordial invi-
tation to attend big celebration by that
organization at Austin October II. The
invitation was extended by John w.
Brady. assistant attorney general of
Texas. who went to the White House
with Senator Culberson and Representa-
tive Burleson.
The President today accepted life men,
bership and the honorary vice presidency
of the American Flag Association OF
New York. He wrote to the association,
thanking that organization for the honor.
The United Confederate Veterans and
the Grand Army of the Republic of Mis-
souri, want him to visit Springfield in
September and personally receive on be-
half of the United States the first Con-
federate cemetery to be dedicated to the
In a letter to the President George w.
Jones' commanding the Department of
the Missouri, United Confederate Vet
erans, said:
w hat COuiu De more pledSdlt ~ Sou
than to he the instrument in fulfilling
the expressed hope and challenge of the
great hearted Mckinley in his famous
Atlanta speech. which gave rise 10 this
action and which eliminated in the pas
sage of the bill accepting the tender Of
the cemetery.
Would Like to Accept.
This is an invitation the President will
accept if II is possible for him to do SO.
r. q. Whitrift, president of the Ma
tional Association Of First-class Post
masters. today urged the President to ac-
cept the invitation of the association to
be present as its guest at the meeting In
Omaha September II TO IA.
Among the other invitations which
reached the President today were those
from the Kalamazoo County Bar Asso-
citation. the United Spanish Veterans
Association, which meets in Oklahoma
City in August: the Fond du Lac County
Fair Association in Wisconsin. on August
- and the Boy Scouts of Allegheny
County, Pa.
in letter to Senators Gamble and
Crawford and Representative Burke OF
South Dakota the President today de-
clined 10, visit Huron in that state, say
| ing that his engagements in Tennessee
at that time prevented his going to
South Dakota.