Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-11
BUSINESS WILL GO OVER
Commissioners May Not Be Chosen
Until Return.
DISTRICT DELEGATIONS BUSY
Actively Urging Various Favorites
for Position at Head of Local
Government.

With the positive decision of President
TAFT today to go to Panama during the
Christmas holidays. the District commits
sionership problem may go over until the
first of the new year.
According to the present plans of the
President he will leave here midnight De-
cember 10 and sail on the battleship
Arkansas from Key West early Decem-
Der II. The President expects to make
the trip comparatively brief one. as he
wants to be back in Washington Decem-
Der 81, in time for the public reception
January /. The Presidents Christmas
Will be spent in the Canal Zone. He will
however. have Mrs. Taft, Secretary Hilles
and his brother. c. P. Taft, and Mrs. c.
P. Taft along with him.
Three-Day Inspection.
The President will have three-day in
spection of the work on the canal put
ting in Christmas day in that business AS
already stated. he may. upon his return
or while in Panama. name Col. Goethals
as civil governor of the Canal Zone, to
have entire control of the management
of the canal when it is opened.
The President is authorized to do this
under the recent law passed by Congress.
under the law
To visiting congressman today the Pres
ident intimated that much business now
pending would have to go over until after
his return. The President had MANY Wis
itors today. too.
On number of occasions recently peo-
pie have asked whether the President s
defeat has lessened interest in the calls
of statesmen and politicians. There have.
as matter of fact. been fully as many
visitors to the White House since the
election as at any previous time.
District of Columbia delegations got
In their work today in strong fash
ion Bishop Corrothers and a delega-
ton of District colored men who sup
ported the President in the recent cleo
ton called to discuss a number of sub
Jects- They announced to the Presi-
dent. with other things. that they
democratic representative on the board
of Commissioners.
Urge M. I. Weller.
Later in the day the President re-
ceived delegation of representatives
from the Northeast and Southeast
Washington citizens associations in
the interest of the candidacy of Michael
i. Weller for appointment as District
Commissioner.
The number of candidates for District
Commissioner is swelling with each days
delay in the sending in of the nomina-
tions. D. J Callahan. general manager
of the Norfolk and Washington Steam
boat Company and. an officer of the
Chamber of Commerce, has had his name
offered to the White House by strong
friends. Partisans OF W. F. GUIDE are
also using his name, while the friends of
Capt Oyster. A. Leftwich Sinclair and
Charles w. Darr are flooding the White
House with letters and recommendations
Dark horses are spr.nging out of every
corner and the fight promises to go the
limit. The President has not looked over
the papers of any of the candidates,
leaving this until the last.
Court Nominations.
Upon the retirement OF Chief Justice
Stanton j. Peelle of the Court of Claims.
early next year, President Taft will send
to the Senate the nomination of Judge
Fenton ". Booth OF that court to be
chief justice and the nomination of Henry
g. Boutell, now minister to Switzerland.
as judge 20 fill the vacancy made by the
promotion OF Judge Booth.
Robert S. Lovett, head of the Harri-
man railroads. and Maxwell Evarts chief
counsel. conferred with President Taft
and Attorney General Wickersham early
today at the White House about the re-
cent Supreme Court decision dissolyinp
the Union Pacific merger.