The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-03-08

would have an opportunity to hold a
private conference with him.
White House officials announced to-
day that the president had decided to
hold regular cabinet meetings on Tues
days and Fridays of each week as has
been the custom for many years.
Many special sessions, however. are
likely to be called before April 1. when
congress is to convene in extra ses-
sion.
FITZGERALD coNFERs.
Representative Fitzgerald talked
with the president about half an hour
and said later that they discussed only
general subjects. No decision has
been reached. he said, as to whether
the house should now appoint an APP
preparations committee and draft
sundry civil appropriation bill to take
the place of the one vetoed by Mr..
Taft.
It is possible that a new sundry civil
bill and that an appropriation bill be
introduced in the special session with
out going through the hands OF the
appropriation committee.
Former Governor Glenn. of North
Carolina called to congratulate the
president. The two men We're class
mates at Davidson college. North Car
DINA, years ago, and played on the
today that on the last occasion of their
meeting, which was in Indiana during
the campaign, Mr.. Glenn pushed
through a crowd and said to the DEM
ocratic candidate: Hello Tommy"
and the future president repliad:
Hello Bob"
did you call him Tommy this
timer" Mr.. Glenn was asked.
NO" laughed the former governor,
afx NJ
Col. Robert E. Ewing, national com
mitteeman from Louisiana, was an
other caller. He came to invite the
president to attend the Louisiana state
fair next November. Mr.. Wilson told
the colonel he intended to remain IN
Washington for some time. and do
very little travelling in 1913.
Il told the president I hadn't come
to ask for the appointment of any
body Col. Ewing said to inquirers,
and suggested he probably would be
glad to see somebody who didn't want
something. The president admitted he
was
CABINET HOLDS MEETING.
The president stopped receiving cali
ers shortly after IL O'Clock when the
cabinet arrived for the daily session.
All the secretaries said the meeting
was TO be one of organization and that
they expected daily sessions until they
had disposed of the principal depart
mental appointments and TIE work of
getting really settled
When the cabinet meeting broke up,
President Wilson let it be known
through Secretary Daniels, of the navy
that he proposed as far as possible to
pursue a policy of publicity regarding
what takes places around the cabinet
table. Today's meeting. il was said,
took up the work of organization where
yesterdays left off 1t is the plan to
make public in a formal way at the
end of each session hereafter what
has been disposed Of
PUT TARIFF UP TO SENATE.
The president looks favorably upon
the idea of having the house pass "a
set of tariff measures and put them
squareiy before the senate, bill by bill,
so that the attention of the whole
country may be focused on the upper
house of congress and enable public
opinion to locate the responsibility for
the success or failure of the measures
Mr.. Wilson's present intention. he
ha- told callers. is to recommend in
his special message to congress that
the tariff be the new work of the ses-
sion. and he expects to cal, attention
briefly to the need of currency iegis-1
lation.
Upon the tariff alone. however, has
the democratic party made up it's
mind exactly what should be done, the
president believes, and while there is
9 unanimity of purpose among those
pushing currency reform. there has
been no uniformity of measures pro-
posed. The president feels, IL Is said.
the necessity for currency reform at
the earliest possible moment and hopes
that when the work OF the extra ses-
sion is well under way and the first
of the tariff bills have passed the
senate. that he may take up with
the members of the house the curren-
cy question. working out carefully
with them bill that would be looked
upon as a general expression OF the
country's desire with respect to none
tary revision.
AR. Wilson's purpose would be. It'll