Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-13
PRESIDENT HAS
VERY BUSY DAY
Confronted With Mountain of
Official Documents on
His Return.
IMPORTANT APPOINTMENTS
AWAIT IMMEDIATE ACTION
New Collector for Newark In
cIuded in Names to Be
Presented.
QNrom a staff Correspondent.)
ASHTNGTON Tan IA

QNrom a staff Correspondent)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.
A Prexy Tired. with a capital T
Went for a rest in Mississippee.
He tried nard to shirk,
But said, 81 must work
Or be defunct as the late @. o. P.
Confronting President Wilson when
he stepped into his office today after
less than three weeks absence on
his first vacation, were stacks of let
Iers, piles of official documents and
RATS of petitions, written appeals and
applications All awaiting his perusal,
his signature and his decision. The
first cabinet meeting of the year was
called for IL O'Clock this morning, so
that he had little time to give to the
mass of correspondence and official
documents before him.
Here are a few of the many things
that the President must dispose of
as soon as possible, not including the
whale of legislation:
The appointment of a Federal re-
serve board to handle the new cur
rency problem.
A governor for the canal zone. 1t
will probably be Colonel George w.
Goethals.
A marshal for the District of Co.
made for the place.
appointment of a comptroller of
currency. Secretary McAdoo has one
picked out for him, but the friends
of the hundred and one other candi-
dates are trying to have something
to say about it.
There is a long list of postmasters,
extending all away across the CONT
nent from Railway to Oregon. Each
l.
ment is revolving about it and desires
attention accordingly.
A surgeon-general of the army
Secretary Garrison has picked out a
man for the job, as is his preroga-
tive, but it is up to the President to
put his o. K. on it,
A commander for the marines is
also to be named, and Secretary DAN
iels has man picked out for it but
the President must officially sanction
1t.
Newark looks for, new collector,
and so does the State of Washington,
and the candidates for the job are as
busy as if the fate of the nation de-
pended upon their selection The
President has endeavored TO shunt
off the responsibility, but the political
exigencies and conflicts among the
indorsers of the various candidates
have made him the unwilling recipi-
ent of lot of the wrangling, and he
has been called upon to play the
Solomon
Then there is the local government
of the District of Columbia. Besides
being President of the United States.
Woodrow Wilson is, in effect, the
mayor of the city of Washington, and
as such is called upon to make APP
polntments and decisions affecting
local affairs.
For example there are five local
municipal judges, and it is up to the
President to name them. The attor-
ney-general is supposed to handle the
preliminaries, but as there is always
more or less national politics involved
in everything that is done here moth
ing is finally settled until the Presi2
dent has had his say officially or
otherwise. In the case of the local
municipal judges the terms of three
of them have expired, and another
will finish his term next week. A
wheel within this wheel is the fact
that one of the judges whose term
expires is q colored man. Now the
people want to know if the President
is going to appoint another colored
man to be Judge. There are any num-
Der of colored men nowadays who
proclaim their undying love and feal-
ty to the Democratic party and they
want to know If they are to be recog-
nized Then again there is the South
to be kept in mind, The South that
is not overjoyed at the announcement
of the appointment to office of col
ored man, unless it be for the office
of door tender.
Another local matter is the settle
ment of the so-called plaza awards.
The local authorities purchased sew
eral street,. squares they are called
south Of the Delaware river, and this
property has not been all paid for,
and caanot be until the President in
his role of mayor of the city, decides
the awards.
Then there is the accumulation of
visitors cards that have been stacked
up on Secretary Tumulty's desk since
Christmas eve. There are, the secre-
tary hasn't counted them, but there
are enough. Each card represents a
visitor who must see the President to
unfold to him, and to him alone, GER
tain facts and undoubted truths that
cannot be disposed of in any shape or
form except by personal interview
with the occupant of the White House
chair The heads of numerous de-
partments have personal reports they
must make to the head of the nation,
and Secretary Tumulty is having the
time of his life trying to squeeze in
as many interviews and interviewers
in an hour as the rules of the game
will permit. The engagement book is
now overloaded and late corners are
going to have a sad time of it for
some days to come to get within grip
ping distance of the returned vaca-
Zionist.
This is going to be one busy day
for the President, and he has to dress
up tonight to go to party he is CIV
ing 1t Is the sixty seventh annual
reception of the Diplomatic Corps,
well-known Washington social or
ganization.