Evening star., 1914-07-20
WHITE HOUSE GETS
PROSPERITY NEWS
President Gratified That None
of His Callers Criticises
Underwood Tariff.
DISTRICT BILL AWAITS
ASSURANCE FROM SENATE
Will Not Be Signed Until It Is Ger.
tain "Joker" Will Be
Corrected.

| Recovered from his indisposition of
last week. President Wilson confronted
hard days work today. including con-
ferences With numerous callers, some
of whom had engagements to see him
| last week hut could not do SO owing
To his illness.
| :. K. Bertron, banker, and Joseph
-. Gallagher. a manufacturer. both of
NeW ork, We're among the callers, dis
eusSing business conditions and max
! ins suggestions which the President
vas glad to get. To callers today
| President Wilson said he had been gem
timely gratified to find no complaint
about the tariff among the business
men he has conferred with o nthe busi-
ness affairs of the country in the last
ten days. The only reference made by
any of them to the tariff had been that
the new law naturally required some
| period of adjustment. In none of his
! letters. the President said, has the
! tarln been placed as serious factor in
! tnc eS1stlng depression. He had not
even heard that a Pennsylvania manu-
iactuflnS association recently charged
the tarlh with being responsible for
some Of the existing woes.
Better Times Seen Ahead.
| me administration is becoming more
convinced each day that better times are
| iooihins ahead and that there is one huge
| iaetor IN tine situation to be reckoned
| will ms Is the decision of the inter-
! state commerce commission in the freight
| lite case now pending. If the commits
| aioi uecnnes to show liberality to the
loaus the return to prosperity in the
eyes OF close friends of the administra
Ion I,on' WI be made much more difficult.
can ;ie iresldent consistently declines to
cdH III members of tl. commission and
CONFER with them on the subject. Durine
me terms of President Roosevelt the
eoionei frequently called in members of
aue interstate commerce cimmission and
When ne did not send for them they went
70 the executive offices to confer With
i nun on many important questions pend-
ins II the Presidents influence conId he
sAer.ed IKE there would be no doubt, accord
| ing to those who know that Tho ra;I
roads would receive favorable treatment
and that the administration would after.
ward be relieved by prompt return to
| .oiihuehce " IN the business world, mat
ter of great Importance TO the nolit;ca1
future of the democratic partv
AS TO the trust legislation Situation in
the Senate. the President intimated TO
VISITORS today that he understood that
action had not been taken in the s.rotc
on the interstate trade commission hill
hecause several Of the opposition sena-
tors did not care to vote upon one bill
until all the trust bills OF the aiminist ra
tion are reported to the Senate Briefly,
| they want to see the hand OF the ad-
mnistration before permitting auy of the
legislation to be taken up.
District Bill Not Signed.
President Wilson did not sign the Dis
irict appropriation bill today, and will
not do so until he receives assurance that
Inc Seliatc will put i'll the general de-
uciency appropriation bill 4 correction
of the Joker in the District bill which
appears to exempt street railroads from
paying the cost OF improvements between
their tracks and for two feet each side.
II the White House does not receive
some assurance of this kind the President
will return the bill to Congress without
his signature. The District Commission
ers have recommended that the Presi-
dent withhold his approval of the hill un-
less the error can be corrected t,yOnd
question.
Representative Thatcher of Massachu-
setts today invited the President to at
tend the roth anniversary OF the found
Mass. July -. The President feared
that he would not be able to accept the
invitation.
Flip-Flaps in New Jersey.
| New jersey visitors to the White
House are talking about the rapid
political TnaleuverS of REPRESENTATIVE
Eugene J<inkead Of the eighth New
Jersey district, one OF the leaders Of
the Wilson type of democracy in that
state. kinkead has business connec-
tions in Jersey that made it advisab BILE
for him to remain at home. So he had
no trouble in prevailing upon Presi-
dent Wilson to name him as postmas-
ter of Jersey City. Il position paying
almost as well as seat In Congress.
kinkead. however. did not resign from
Congress. remaining here to work for
the administration and intending to
take up his post Office duties when he
left here. In the meantime the demo-
cratic leaders in Jersey City discover
| ed that they wanted a candidate for
sheriff of Hudson county and they
looked around for a man they believed
could win.
They picked kinkead who has now re-
signed his job postmaster. and pro-
poses to make the race for sheriff. a po-
siton of partisan potentiality and good
salary. President Wilson will name an
other postmaster. and Senator Hughes
was at the White House today comforting
about the man to he recommended. Sec
retary Tumulty is from Jersey City, and
VIII have an important part in the se!ec-
ton. kinkead did not like the idea of
going into the post office and being shut
on from participation in the politics of
| the state.
| France to Urge Claims.
| Mr. Clausee. counselor of the French
| embassy in this city, was sent to the
| White House by Secretary Bryan to have
Il conference with President Wilson. AS
| the Presidents engagement list was full
the time for the conference was fixed
for tomorrow afternoon. 1t is understood
1 +
| President direct its attitude on a number
cs important questions at this time. in
, cludins the Mexican financial problem.
! in which many French citizens are direct
| l. Interested: the Imprisonment of the
Christian Brothers, French subjects, at
Zacatec:.s. Mexico. and conditions in
Santo Domingo. Mr.. Clausee did not wish
to discuss his business at the White
House. He is the highest diplomatic ofii-
Ger OF the French embassy in Washing
! ton.
Dudley Field Malone. collector of the
port OF New York, made brief call on
| the President and was later a guest ot
the President at luncheon. Some of the