Arizona republican., 1913-03-16
President Wilson's Nom inees Are Not Made Regular Because of Re publican Objection to Hasty Action
 SAGUE MAY BE NEW YORK COLLECTOR Democrats of House Ways and Means Committee Complete Consideration of Most of Schedules of the Tariff Revision
ASSOCIATED PREss DIsPATCH1

WASHINGTON, March 15-Repub-
 lican objection to nasty action by
 President Wilson in his appointments again delayed action on the confirma- tion of several important nomina- tions. including those of pr. B. T.
 Galloway, assistant secretary of agri-
 culture; John s. Williams, assistant
 secretary of the treasury; Edwin F. Sweet, assistant secretary of com
 mcrce. and Franklin D. Roosevelt, as [ sistant secretary Of the navy. It is expected the senate will act on Mon day on several of the pending ap- pointments.
 John K. Sague, three times mayor of Poughkeepsie, was brought forward today in a mere perfunctory fashion : as d candidate for appointment as collector of New York. Eis name was presented by friends who are confi- dent he will be selected. When the
 newspaper correspondents were re-
 ceived by the president, he made d brief speech to them, and said he re- | cognized the press as the best friend
 of the country. The president re-
 iterated he would maintain an open
 door policy
 l Democrats of the house committee on ways and means completed tonight 1 consideration of most of the schedule matter of tariff revision and prepar- ed to take up a fresh draft of the revision scheme on Monday. Admin ! istI atiOn provisions and the income 1 taI feature of the coming legislation
 and yet be given serious considera- 1 tion. The free list, with the possible { exception of cattle and meats, which ] were on the democratic free list plan
 last year, will be substantially like tEe previous democratic free list Dill.
 substantial reduction all along the
 Beyond admitting there had been a line greater perhaps than anticipated for some items, the members of the
 committee would say nothing tonight.
 The situation is in tentative stage
 they declared.
 President Wilson received with re- gret today a letter from Richard OI- ney of Massachusetts, former secre- tary of state, under President Cleve- , land. declining. for family reasons"
 the offer of the post of United States
 ambassador to Great rBitain. Though
 no name came forward conspcuously
 today it was thought the president
 might chose a man hitherto men toned for some other European post, These include: David R. Francis of
 Missouri, Thomas Nelson Page of
 Virginia and Augustus Thomas of New York.
 A constitutional amendment giving , women the right to vote for president , and vice president, probably will be brought formally before congress for endorsement by senate committee be- ) fore the end of the present year. In the organization of it's com- : mittee today. the senate took the wo-
 man suffrage committee out of the list : of inactive committees where it has re- mained many years, increased it's : membership from five to nine, ma jority of whom are advocates of suf-
 frage for women and gave the chair
 manship to Senator Thomas of Colo
 rado a suffrage state
 Senator Thomas said tonight he ac- : cepted the chairmanship with the un- , derstanding that there will be active steps taken by this congress to submit
 the suffrage amendment to the people for their approval. Thomas will con
 fer with national leaders of the suf-
 l frage movement to determine what = steps they desire to take.
 . It is expected the committee will be :, l gin consideration of the suffrage ques- n tiOn soon after the extra session con n veneS in April
 n Representatives of the Nationa
 American Woman Suffrage association F made arrangements today for a con 6 ference with President Wilson or Q Monday morning when they will urge s that he recommend in his message tt h congress an amendment to the fedora f constitution entitling women to the Q ballot. Whether or not Wilson make: II the recommendations activity in con d gress will begin at an early date. The It has been heretofore known as min
 ority' committee. It has not met il Il many years. Democratic leaders noti s. fled the republicans today they pro $ take over the chairmanship.
 With the declaration of their leader l. Senator Kern. that they purposeC e making the senate democratic mot on. y ly in name but in practical results tn. 3, democrats organized the committe e of the senate and took actual contr, Il of the legislative affairs of that body = Fractional differences disappeared
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