Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-12
Mr.. ROOTS VIEWS
Says Congress Seems Little
Inclined to Work.
WOODRUFF VISITS TAFT
Declares President Daily Grows
More Popular in New York.
CABINET IN SUMNER ATTIRE
Attorney General Instructed to Rule
Regarding Shipments Of Sup
plies to Mexican Rebels.
CABINET IN SUMNER ATTIRE

resistance on the part Of members Of
Congress against doing anything at
session like this one" said Senator
Root Of New York, as he was leaving
the White House after a conference
with the President this morning.
This session has been called to deal
with the Canadian reciprocity program
and it appears as If that matter alone
Is engaging the attention of senators.
1 cannot say when vote will be
reached on tho reciprocity pact The
bill is now in the hands Of the finance
committee. and when 1t viii be report
ed to the Senate for action I cannot
say"
The senator declined to discuss the
deadlock in the upper house over the cleo
ton Of a president pro tempore to sue
coed Senator Frye. He explained that
the position carried no strategical adj
vantage, but that the three candidates
what.
Another New Yorker who visited the
White House today was Timothy Wood
ruff, former lieutenant governor OF the
state. He said he did not come to dis
cuss politics, but expressed q few opti-
mistic political views as he was leaving.
The New Yorker said Mr.. Taft is grow
ing more popular in the Empire state
every day, and that his reciprocity pro-
gram is winning him many friends in the
cities There is some dissatisfaction with
the proposed treaty in the country dis
tricts. but Mr.. Woodruff believes this
feeling will have passed when the next
election is at hand.
Hope to Garry State.
"Of course there is no political COM
plexion in New York just now. We are
hopeful Of carrying the state. despite bad
business conditions prevailing now The
delay In the Supreme Court in handing
down several important decisions has had
some effect on business. II these impor-
tant decisions, especially the Standard
Oil and tobacco trust rulings, are not
handed down before the court adjourns
for the summer business will be- almost
in a state Of collapse everywhere
Continuing, Mr.. Woodruff said that the
handing down of the decisions did not
necessarily imply that boom would en-
sue in all industries
George Urban. president OF the Millers
Association of Buffalo, today invited
President Taft to attend banquet to be
given by the association at Niagara
Falls June 10.
Whether or not the President will ac-
cept the invitation of Representative
Calder to go to Brooklyn June s to re-
view the Sunday School Union parade is
not, yet settled. He will make known
his decision in q day or two.
When the cabinet assembled at II
O'Clock this morning nearly every mem
Der was arrayed in summer attire, with
light quits and light headgear. either
straw or PsnaWa RATS Secretary OF the ne
the White House in his usual attire.
frock coat and high hat.
There were few visitors at the execu-
| tive ofices this morning. The list in
/ 81, Inl To
Crane and Representatives Madison OF
Kansas and Morgan Of Oklahoma.
Delegations Are Received.
| This afternoon the President received
the following delegations in the east room
Of the White House at 2:3O o'clock: Ohio
| Changers. twenty-five members; Gospel
Mission Workers, four hundred members;
Buffalo Chamber of Commerce, seventy
| five members. The latter organization
came to assure the President that 1t is a
supporter of the reciprocity program.
Following the session Of the cabinet, II
Wickersham had been instructed to de-
eide whether arms and ammunition may
be shipped to the insurrectos in Mexico
through the customs house at Ell Paso.
Tex. Representations have been made
to Secretary MacVeagh by supporters
and representatives Of the Madero fac
ton in this city that unless this govern
ment allows the shipment Of such sup
plies to the rebel army the fruits Of vic
tory achieved when Juarez fell would be
lost The question has vexed the Treas
ury Department, the State Department
and the Department of Justice for the
last few days.
Judge Frank H. Kerr, Joseph B. Doyle
and James McConville, all OF Steuben-
VILE, Ohio. were at the executive offices
today to again invite the President to
stop at Steubenville early in September
for the exercises attending the unveilins
Of a statue Of Edwin M. Stanton. Secre-
tary of War under President Lincoln
They explained that this will be the first
statue to be erected to the memory Of
Stanton In this country.