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THE EVENING STAR WITH 8UHDAY MORNING EDITION. 0*0*, Uth at aad Th# Irtaiag SUr R?wptptr Conptny, Otc*: ? Kn?it It, Loadas. blWk Vtw York OOm: Trifcaaa Bail4ia?. Oftca: Fir?t Matioaai luk iuildinf. The Evening Star, with the Sunday morula* edition. la delivered by carriers within the city ?t 80 rents per month. Orders mar I* 57 i ?all or telephone Main 2440. Collection 1* mad* to carrier at the end o1 each month. By mall, postage prepaid: Bally. Sunday Included, one month. AO cent*. Dally. Sunday excepted, one month. 50 rents, tataiday Star. 91 year. Sunday Star. $1.30 year. W eather. Fair and cooler tonight. Fri day partly cloudy. No. 17,741. WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1909-TWENTY-TWO PAGES. TWO CENTS. EVERY INHABITANT OF ARMENIAN TOWN SLAIN BYMOSLEMS Unto Last Babe, Entire Popu lation of Kirigan, Asia Minor, Is Massacred. EKBAZ FRENCH MISSION BESIEGED BY FANATICS Deurtyul Surrounded, Hopeless and Already on Fire. AMERICAN WOMEN IN DANGER Appeal for Help From Hadjin?Re actionaries Incite Assassination of Christians Throughout Astiatic Turkey. ALEPPO, A Mafic Turkey, April 20.? The entire population of Klrtknn. locat ed between here nnd Alexandretta. even onto the laat babe, haa been mqaaacreri. The Freneh mission at Ekbai in be sieged by fanatical Moslema. The Armenian village of Deurtyul la ?urrounded. According to ? meiiaenger, who crawled through the Arab linen at night and made hla way here for help, the situation there la hope lean. The bulldlnga on the edge of the town al ready were In flames when he escaped. The maaaacrea are betas carried out with the area teat violence. Neither women nor children are a pa red. The motta of the aioalem Isi ?Jfo twig of the accursed raee ahall he Buffered to live." The Armenians, recognising that the nawarrfa have been orgaalied aad cur bed out by adhereata of the old Turkiah u?'?e' are looking to the Younc Turka for future protection. Massacres Spread Through Asia Minor CONST ANTTNOPLE, April ?Grave Uewp waff received here this morning freai Erxerum, the principal town of {Turkish Armenia. Tho transports of delight of the people ?M the proclamation of constitutional government are now being supplanted by ? movement In favor of the Sherl laws and the sultan, which, it is feared, may lead to a conflict between Christians and Moslems. ? The wave of fanaticism which originat ed at Adana some ten days ago ap parently is spreading generally through the eastern provinces. The Christian vil lages in the vilayets of Aleppo and Sivas have been attacked by Kurds, Circassians and nomads. The Inhabitants are imploring the porte to send troops for their protection. The situation in Asiatic Turkey, ac cording to the latest intelligence received here, is distinctly threatening. I pward of 10,000 Armenians were mas sacred In Syrian towns and villages, principally in the vilayet of Adana. dur ing outbursts of fanatical zeal that took place at the time of the spring festival In honor of Mohammed upon receipt of news of the overturn of the "hereti cal" government at Constantinople. One embassy places the estimates of killed as high as lo.OOO. Reactionaries Are Blamed. The government has sent urgent com mands to the vail of Adana that the mobs must he put down and the leaders harshly dealt with. The attacks on the Armenians appear to have been instigated solely by the reactionaries. A diBpatch received from M^rsina. dated yesterday, says the Armenian town of Hadjin. In the northern part of the Adana vilayet. Is beleaguered by Moslem tribes men. who are only awaiting sufficient numerical strength to rush the Improvised defenses erected by the Armenians. The Armenians, however, are well armed, and will put up a vigorous defense. Up to the present time two persons have been killed at Hadjin. British, French and German vessels of war have arrived at Merslna. A dispatch from Antloch, dated April 18, via Aleppo. April 30, and received here today, says that when the message was filed murdering and plundering in the city were still going on. Another message has been received from Tarsus. It is dated April ?*), and was sent by courier to Merslna. It sets forth that the missions at Tarsus, which were giving shelter to 3,000 refugees, were weli protected. Martial Law Declared. Martial law had been declared, and the situation was showing some improve ment. Five hundred houses had been burned In the Armenian quarter of the city, where fifty persons had been killed. Others had been killed in the surround ing villages. Aieppo. under today's date, reports the i situation of all Americans there to be dangerous. No mention is made of any one being killed or injure.l. There is great Insecurity even in Aleppo, owing to the arrival in the city of hands of fe rocious tribesmen. Collective consular representations have been made to the governor general of the district, urging him to relieve the situa tion in the terrorized territory. The gov ernor general promised to do all in his power, but he admitted that he was not able to accomplish much, as there were only 4UO soldiers in the city. . Five American Women Ask for Help at Hadjin Mission BEIRUT. April 22.?Five American (Continued on Thirteenth PUZZLE TO TRADERS Trying to Explain Sudden Drop j ' in Wheat. WATCH ON BULL LEADER Suspicion in Chicago That Fatten Has Changed Views. BREAK REGARDED AS 'FLURRY' Timid Holders Told to Wait by Bartlett-Patten Forces?Armour Reported a Seller. CHICAGO, April 22.?Has the bull cam paign In wheat, so far as the public is concerned, been abandoned? Has the bull leader, James A. Patten, now reported on his way to visit the ranch of a friend In Colorado, changed his views? These and other questions, unthought of a week ago, were rife on the board of trade today, when the slump In wheat continued, prices reaching a point 8 to 8l2 cents below the record price of last week when Mr. Patten declared wheat was worth intrinsically every cent being paid for it. Just a week ago May wheat here sold at 1.29'i and July at 1.18%- Repeatedly asked if he had a corner in the two de liveries, Mr. Patten emphatically denied that he had, asserting amid the quota tion of crop statistics and prospects that actual users of wheat were respon sible for the high prices, and that the cereal was worth all that was being paid for It. "Even were I entirely out of the mar ket prices would be as high, or higher, than they are," said the bull leader. Unable to Explain Decline. Since then the market has been de clining In a way which the ordinary fol lowers of Mr. Patten have been unable to explain. Today instead of the recov ery expected after the 6-cent decline of Tuesday and Wednesday, the market opened extremely nervous and weak. May sold at 1.21 % early, 3% cents un der yesterday's close, and 8 V6 cents be low the high price last week. July, in which the bulk of the trading has been done recently, declined to 1.10%, 3%a 3% cents below yesterday's close, and 8% cents under the record price of last Friday. At these prices the market steadied, but showed no evidence of recuperative power. Bears jubilantly pressed their advantage, pointing to the weak foreign markets as indicative of the correctness of the bear view that there is no world wide shortage of wheat. Stop-loss sales were numerous. Armour, who. In a recent Interview upheld Mr. Patten's bullish survey of conditions and whose house was credited with buying yesterday, was rumored to be selling on the Liverpool market. Fatten Allies Say "Wait." In the Bartlett-Patten offices it was stated that there was no reason to change any statement previously made by Mr. Patten. The break in prices was char acterized as a flurry. The lost ground, it wag said, would be regained without manipulation. Timid holders, it was de clared, were unloading, frightened at the decline or because their resources were insufficient to maintain them in the mar ket. It was this class of traders mainly who expressed curiosity as to Mr. Patten's present views. Despite his assertion that he is not manipulating the market, they expected that he would prevent any such slump as the present one. Among Mr. Patten's allies and inti mates, however, the word "wait" was spoken optimistically, although some of them said "it looked funny the way the market acted." The eight-cent decline has made a big hole in paper profits, although to what extent no one can say, as no one knows the extent of the long lines held, or at what price purchased. Also there have been heavy actual losses among traders whose resources have given out and their trades closed. FATTEN IN COLORADO. In Testy Temper and Refuses to Be Interviewed. TRINIDAD. Col., April 22?James A. Patten, the Chicago "wheat king," who was reported yesterday to have deserted the wheat pit to inspect for himself the wheat situation in the central west, ar rived in Trinidad today and left shortly afterward for Tercio. Col., near the New Mexico line. From there Mr. Patten will drive twenty-five miles to the ranch of W. H. Bartlett, near Vermejo Park, N. Mex. The trlD will not be a pleasant one. for a blinding snowstorm is prevailing today, and the twenty-flve-miie ride must be made over the mountains through heavy snowdrifts. Mr. Patten appeared tired and extremely nervous, and he was not in the best of temper when approached by a reporter. "None of your business," was his an swer to a question as to his mission in Trinidad. "I've been hounded to death by reporters for weeks." Asked concerning the report that he had experts gathering data on July wheat throughout the west. Mr. Patten refused to make answer. It is understood Mr. Patten will spend some time at the Bart lett ranch, and as it is remote from tele graphic and railroad communication his desire for rest and relaxation probably will be gratified. SAW NOTHING WRONG. Actor Farnum's Deposition Taken in Gould Divorce Case. CHICAGO. April 22.?Dustln Farnum's ! deposition in the Gould divorce case was i taken today before Attorney Louis C. | Krle 1n the latter's office here. Mrs. i Gould w as represented by Clarence J. I Shearn and Mr. Gould by Archibald ' Watson. The actor was a willing wit ness. In effect, he stated that he had known Mrs. Gould seven or eight years, i had met her on an average of not more than once a year, and had never wit nessed anything deropatory to her char acter or habits. Their own relations were those of friendly acquaintances only. He had never seen Mrs. Gould drink an in toxicant, he said. The deposition of Mrs. Norris H. Mun dy. whose father was master of the CJould yacht Niagara, and who before iier marriage was a companion of Mrs. Gould on several trips, was taken here 'yesterday. Mrs. Mundy testified that she had never j seen Mrs. Gould drink more than two <-ocktai|s at one sitting, nor had she ob served any particular intimacy between Mrs. Gould and Mr. Karnum. "Did she call him 'Dustin' or 'dear,';or anything like tltat?" asked Attornev Watson. "Not that 1 remember," was the an-1 swer. BARRED! ASK FIFTY PER CENT OIL DUTY INDEPENDENTS MEMORIALIZE SENATE COMMITTEE. Existence Threatened if Product Is Put on Free List"-Stand ard Will Benefit. Independent oil men. opposed to free oil, besieged the Senate finance committee this morning In large numbers. Several hundred of them have been in this city for the past few days. They selected a committee of fifty to draw up a memorial to Congress for a straight ad valorem duty of 50 per cent on petro leum and its products. This memorial was presented to the Senate committee this morning by the chairman of the committee of fifty, who is N. V. V. Franchot of Olean, N. Y. The secretary of the committee is w. W. Tarbell, brother of Ida M. Tarbell, famous for her magazine "expose" of the Stand ard Oil Company. Existence Threatened. These men told the Senate committee this morning that their whole business existence is involved in the fight they are making against free oil. They point ed out that the Standard Oil produces only 11 per cent of the crude oil drilled In this country, and that the other 89 per cent is the product of the men as sembled in the independent convention which has been holding meetings here. The removal of the countervailing duty they claimed, would let In the oil of the world to compete with the crude oil of the United States and that this would leave the Standard Oil Company freer than ever to fix the price of crude oil which it buys from the producers who are independent, and of the refined oil and its products which it sells to the con sumer. Elkins Pleads for Duty. Senator Elkins of West Virginia, ap peared before the committee to favor an ' oil duty, speaking especially in behalf of the "independents" of his state. Sena tor Owen of Oklahoma also appeared in behalf of the oil producers of his state advocating a duty. The senate committee took no action this morning. LONGSHAW SEEKS DIVORCE. Well Known Stock Broker Makes Another Attempt at Separation. Special Dlnpatrh to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md., April 22?Luther M. Longshaw has entered suit in circuit court No. 2 to obtain an absolute divorce from his wife, Lillian C. P. Longshaw. The bill of complaint states that they were married July 6, 1905. In Washington by Rev. W. J. Houck. Mr. Longshaw Is well known In Washington,* having been for many years connected with the stock brokerage business. About a year ago he came to Baltimore and engaged in the real estate business, which he has built up to quite a profitable extent, making a specialty of suburban property. Luther Longshaw. who is familiarly known as colonel among his business associates, filad a suit for divorce here November 24, 1906. This was dismissed by the court April 19. 1907. His wife is in business for herself in this city. WIRELESS IN CANAL WORK. Station to Be Erected at Porto Bello in the Caribbean. Finding that a wireless telegraph service > was cheaper than a telephone or a oable service, the Isthmian canal commission has decided to erect a station at Porto Bello, a port on the Caribbean sea. eight een miles east of Colon, to communicate with Colon. The crushsd rock for the concrete work of Gatun locks and rhe spillway of C.at-un dam is to be obtained ftom Porto Bello. This will amount to about 2.225,000 cuhic yards. The immense amount of transportation from Porto Bello necessitated a rapid means of communication. PUT III COLD STORAGE Chinamen Smuggled Across Border in Refrigerators. HIDDEN IN DINING CARS Some of Them Almost Frozen to Death on Long Trip. TEN MEN SHIPPED IN BARBELS All of Them Die En Route Is the Sensational Story Being Told in El Paso, Tex. Special Dispatch to The Star. EL PASO, Tex., April 22.?In ordering the removal of four men arrested here on indictments from the federal court in Chicago charging conspiracy to smuggle Chinese, a most sensational case has Just closed, so far as this locality is con cerned- Testimony introduced by the government showed that there had been an organized band for smuggling China men from El Paso to Chicago and other points east, and many ingenious methods were brought to light. John Yanner and William Bies, cooks on Rock Island dining cars arrested in Chicago, were brought here to turn state's evidence, and both testified that they had been hired for many months to smuggle Chinamen by -secreting them in ice boxes and clothes closets on their cars. InT many instances, they testified, Chinamen had almost frozen to death in the refrigerators when they had no opportunity to switch them into the clothes closets. Chinaman Found Dead. The defense asked Yanner if he had not been suspected of the murder of a Chinaman found dead near Kansas City beside the railroad track, and he ad mitted that he had. The defense asked him point-blank if the Chinaman had not frozen to death in his refrigerator and been thrown off. Yanner denied this. In the past year over 300 smuggled Chinamen have been captured in this city, many taken from Pullman and dining cars and many others removed from freight cars. In some instances ten or fifteen were foynd in one car. The re port is still circulated here that ten Chi namen were sealed in barrels here for shipment to a Chinaman in Mott street. New York, and that the trainmen failed to give them food and water en route, and they arrived at their destination dead. Many Arrests Made. Some arrests of prominent men have been made recently. W. B. Greene, for merly of Jamestown, N. Y., and for sev eral months immigration inspector at Montreal, has been Indicted on a charge of conspiracy to smuggle Chinese while an employe of the immigration service. \Y. \V. Fink, former chief of police of El Paso, is under indictment at Roswell and Las Cruces, N. Mex.. on a similar charge. Mar Chew, the richest Chinaman in El Paso, is under a similar indictment at Las Cruces. H. D. Maynard, for years a conductor on the Santa Fe road, is also under Indictment for the same of fense. The men just removed from here to Chicago are Robert \V. Stevenson, feob Leung, Carlos Sevadra and Jose Parra. Another man, a railroad conductor, is under arrest in Alamogordo, N. Mex., on indictments from Chicago. To Dine the Gridiron Club. The Brazilian ambasador will entertain at dinner at Rauscher's May 6 in honor of the Gridiron Club and Mr. J. C. Rod riguez. editor of the Journal di Commer cio of Rio de Janeiro. DISINTER BODY OF L'ENFANT DISTRICT COMMISSIONERS VISIT THE RIOOS FARM. Transfer the Remains to Vault in Mount Olivet Cemetery?Cere monies Next Wednesday. To witness the disinterment of the re mains of Maj. Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the engineer who made the original plans for the National capital, from an un marked grave on the Riggs farm. Green Hill, Prince George county, Md., prepara tory to their reinterment in Arlington National cemetery, the Commissioners proceeded to Green Hill this afternoon. The remains will be transferred to a receiving vault in Mount Olivet cemetery and will remain there until next Wednes day morning, when they are to be taken to the rotunda of the Capitol, to lie in state from 9 o'clock until 12 o'clock. The memorial exercises arranged by the Commissioners will be held at 10:80 o'clock, when addresses will be made by Vice President Sherman and Ambassador Jusserand. At noon the remains will be started with military escort to Arlington cemetery. Present at Disinterment. To be present at the disinterment this afternoon the Commissioners invited Dr. James Dudley Morgan, a descendant of the Digges family, which owned the farm where L'Enfant was burled; George How ard, a descendant of the Riggs family, which bought the place from the Dlgges estate. The disinterment was made by experts from the quartermaster general's office of the War Department. There were no ceremonies of any kind at the grave. The House today accepted an invitation to attend the exercises in connection with the removal of the body of Maj. L'Enfant to Arlington next Wednesday. CAPT. DOYLE DEAD. Served on the Brooklyn During the Spanish War. Capt. James G. Doyle. U.S.N., retired, died at the Naval' Hospital, Boston. Mass., yesterday. Capt. Doyle was born In Philadelphia, Pa., May 9, 1860. and entered the naval service as a midship man June 27, 1877J was promoted to en sign, July 1, 1884; to lieutenant (Junior grade), July 21, 1894; to lieutenant, Janu ary 25, 1898, and during the Spanish American war served on board the U.8.S. Brooklyn; subsequently serving on duty as Inspector of ordnance. He was pro moted to lieutenant commander Septem ber 23, 1903; to commander, January 7, 1908, and June 30, 1908, was transferred to the retired list, with the rank of cap-* tain. He continued upon active duty as ex ecutive officer of the Washington subse quent to the date of his retirement, until July 11. 1908, and has performed other active duty since retirement. TRIAL IN CANADIAN COURTS. Schooner Woodbury to Be Sold if Condemned as Offender. ' OTTAWA. Ontario, April 22.?It was reported to the Canadian marine depart ment that yesterday there had been an American fishing boat seized on the Pa cific coast for fishing within the Ca nadian three-mile line. The report states that the Canadian fishery protection cruiser Kesfrel. Capt. ' Homes Newcombe, yesterday sighted the i united States motor fishing boat Levi I Woodbury fishing on the Canadian shore ! within the three-mile line between East and West Haycock Lslands. I After sighting the Kestrel the Wood bury picked up her dories, cut away her gear and put out to sea with the Kes trel in hot pursuit. Four signal guns were fired by the Kestrel, which was overhauling the i Woodbury. It was found necessary to fire four rounds from a machine gun be fore ihe Woodbury would round to. The American vessel was arrested a short distance outside the. three-mile limit after a continuous pursuit and was taken into port by the Canadian cruiser. The matter has been turned over to the department of Justice for trial. Condemnation proceedings will at once be Instituted, the American boat being held in the meantime. If condemned, the i Woodbury will be sold. i CAST BALLOTS TODAY Revolutionary Daughters Vote for Officers. ANNUAL ELECTION OCCURS Appearance of Leading Candidates Cause of Ovations. PUBLIC USURPS THE GALLERY Alternates Experience Difficulty in Securing Seats Allotted Them. Nominating Speeches. THE D. A. B. CALENDAR. TONIGHT. Announcements of elections if the count of ballots Is concluded. TOMORROW. C10:30 o'clock a.m.) The congress called to order by the president general. Prayer. Music. Reading of the minutes. Confirmation of state regents and state vice regents. Report of committee on the rec meridatlons of national officers. Unfinished business. New business. (2 to 3:30 o'clock p.m.) Report and entertainment by the Children of the American Revolu tion, under the direction of Miss Minnie Hawke. The congress will adjourn to at tend the unveiling of the memorial tablet by the Mount Vernon Chap ter in Old Christ Church, Alexan dria, Va., at 5 o'clock p.m. By resolution of the seventeenth Continental Congress the C. A. R. are to be recognized by this con gress. (8:30 o'clock p.m.) Lecture tendered by Gilbert Mc Clurg?"O Brave New World of Texas, Conqueror of the Desert and Master of the Sea." The great day Is here. The ballots of the delegates to the Eighteenth Conti nental Congress have been deposited. A ticket has b?en elected, and the Daugh ters of the American Revolution are holding themselves in readiness to greet their new president general tomorrow, for the ballots, with their twenty names, are so complicated that It will require until late tonight to count them. There has been excitement ot the most Intense character In Continental Hall all day. Parliamentary procedure was ad hered to With but a single insignificant bteak by an enthusiast In the gallery, but the delegates have been on the verge of brimming over with the pent-up loyalty to their candidate, ^ and the nervous something that permeated the session. At times the babble of voices was too great for the speeches to be heard. For such occasions as elections Mrs. McLean has a gavel made of an Indian peace pipe, and'It is supposed to act like oil on even the most troubled waters. Not that to day's meeting* was troubled. It was simply exciting, and it Is safe to say every delegate enjoyed the battle of wits; for the speeches were far from dull. Big Crowd in Hall. The hall was crowded; not a single per son was admitted who had no right to the hall, and a disgruntled crowd stayed out side and tried to peer through windows and glass doors. The national tickets nominated were as follows: The nominations for the vice presidents general came from all over the house, and up to the time The Star's re port closed were incomplete. The national tickets: Administration: President general, Mrs. Matthew T. Scott. Vice president general in charge of or ganization of chapters, Mrs. Amos G. Draper. Chaplain general, Mrs. Esther Froth ingham Nable. Recording secretary general, Mrs. How ard Li. Hodgkins. Corresponding secretary general, Mrs. Lyman B. Swormstedt. Registrar general, Mrs. William Van Zandt Cox. Treasurer general, Mrs. William D. Hoover. Historian general, Mrs. Frank H. Briggs. Assistant historian general, Mrs. Henry S. Bowren. Librarian general, Mrs. Woodbury Pulslfer. Insurgent: President general, Mrs. William Cum ming Story, New York. Vice president general in charge of or ganisation, Mrs. Miranda Barney Tul loch. District of Columbia. Recording secretary general. Miss Mary R. Wilcox, Tennessee and District of Columbia. Corresponding secretary general, Mrs. Eleanor Ingersoll Thome, Seattle, Wash., and District of Columbia. Treasurer general. Miss Delia Sheldon Jackson, District of Columbia. Chaplain general, Mrs. Joseph A. Gil fillan, Minnesota and District of Colum bia. Registrar general. Miss Grace M. Pierce, New York and District of Co lumbia. Librarian general, Mrs. Short A. Wil li?, Connecticut and District of Columbia. Historian general, Mrs. Gertrude B. Darwin, District of Columbia. Assistant historian general. Mrs. Rich ard Llggltt, Florida and District of Co lumbia. Public Usurps Gallery. The general public took the seats in the gallery reserved for the alternates, and refused to be moved. Policemen were ap pealed to In vain, and an excited crowd buzzed around the lobby. The delegates were all in their places by 10:30 o'clock, the hour set for the opening, and in the twenty minutes which elapsed before Mrs. McLean's trumpeter announced her ar rival there was plenty of talk. Every del egate wore her best gown and her beat hat today. Such a gathering of color and finery occurs but once a year, and every delegate appeared to be atriving to out strip her neighbor in .gorgeous apparel. * 'li.e galleries seemed to sag with oc cupants?and not Impartial ones, either? for when Mrs. Story pushed her way down the center aisle there was a ripple of applause which grew quickly into a roar and then a shout. Actually for the first time in the congress the Daughters shouted. Visitors in the gallery joined In the demonstration and there was a slight symptom of the pandemonium of the political.conventions of the man folks. A moment later, in one of the boxes. Mr*. 8cott appeared, and her followers (Continued on Twelfth Page.) GET IT THE TROTH Mr. Taft's Instructions to Li berian Commision. CHINESE TRAVELER CALLS Dr. Giel First to Make Trip Around the Great Wall. HERBERT KNOX SMITH TO GO Head of Bureau of Corporation Slated for Lesser Job?Roose velt Order Revoked. The Siberian commission, which ts te study conditions In the negro republic of Africa and report to President Taft. had a final conference with the President this morning:. The three members of the com mission. Roland P. Falkner, Dr. George Sale and Emmet J. Scott, with George A. Finch, secretary, discussed their trip and work with the President, who expressed the hope that they could find a future for the distant republic. His hope, how ever, must not interfere with an impar tial, unbiased report, the President said, as he wished to know the truth, without the least coloring. Besides reporting upon the social, po litical and Industrial conditions in the country, the commission will also spend some time looking irito the International relations surrounding the black republic. This will really be an important part of the report and will stand as a guide to the administration In any action it may take toward throwing protecting influ ences around the nation, should such be determined upon at any time. The commission is largely the work of Booker Washington, whose recommenda tions for membership have been accepted by the President. Emmett Scott, profes sor Washington's secretary, is one of the members. The commission will sail from New York on government cruisers Satur day and will return on the same vessels or others that will be sent for them. President Taft has told the commission that he feels a deep interest in the work that Is to be done and hopes that much good will result from the trip. The Social Mr. Nelson. Senator Nelson enjoys the reputation of being the closest man In the United States Senate, little given to talking even on subjects that he Is deeply concerned about. But he Is becoming socially in clined. according to his own admissions. He left the White House today after a long conference with the President. "Any news, Senator?" asked a Star representative. "No; Just a social visit to the Presi dent; just social, that's all," and a broad smile swept over the determined-looking features of the Minnesotan. while an un usually hearty chuckle escaped him. "Becoming mighty social, It seems." ventured the reporter. "Yes; can't help it," replied the sen ator. "I was afraid the President didn't have much company, and thought I ought to help him pass the time away." and there was another real lively chuckle. Senator Nelson and the President are at cross purposes about who shall be ap pointed United States district judge at Minneapolis. The President likes Milton D. Purdy, who has been holding down the job for a year, and wants to name him to the Sen ate for confirmation. Senator Nelson doesn't like Mr. Purdy well enough to consent, and so the two men, each with the best feeling for the other. Just let the matter drift, while Judge Purdy con tinues to expound the law from the bench.' Senator Nelson fell out with President Roosevelt about this appointment, and kept away from the White House for months. He seems to enjoy his trips to the executive offices now. Believes in China's Future. China has a good friend in the White House in Mr. Taft. He believes In the future of the great empire, and is look ing around for a man for minister who will strengthen the good relations between the United States and the distant people in the far east. To Dr. William Edgar Geil, the famous explorer, who has Just returned from a trip around the great wall of China, the President today ex pressed a desire to have a full report on the explorer's observations as to the in dustrial and educational awakening in progress there. The President, who has several times visited China, looks upon the trade pos sibilities there as the best in the world, and he believes America has better op portunities there than any other nation, because the Chinese have confidence In this country and her people, feeling that the United States Is after no political ad vantage. The President believes that our rep resentative at Peking should be an am bassador, and may arrange this later in his administration. His aim now is to secure a live, wise man for minister, one who will be keen to the commercial op portunities in China and will continue to cultivate the kindly feeling that is now felt for this country. Dr. Geil, who hails from Doylestown, Pa., was introduced to the President by Representative Wanger. The explorer Is believed to be the only foreigner who has ever traveled the entire distance of the great Chinese wall. Utah Wants to See President. Gov. Spry of Utah, accompanied by Dis trict Attorney Booth. EX H. Callister, In ternal revenue collector, and Senator Sutherland, called on the President to tell him that Utah people were anxious to have him visit them on his proposed west ern trip. The President told his visitors that the trip he wished to make would be so expensive he could not undertake it on his present salary. Senator Sutherland and other western senators will ask the Senate for an appropriation of $25,000 for traveling expenses for the President. The request will have to be made by unani mous consent, and if it goes through the Senate can be laken up in the House, de spite the lack of appropriate committees for reference. The North Carolina judgeship fight was once more before the President today. Three Newbern citizens. Col. P. M. Pear sail, Larry Moore and R. A. N'unn. called on the President to speak In behalf of W. W. Clark of that city. T< ey told the Presi dent that Mr. Clark ranks with the sreat lawyers of the state. The same subject was also taken up by ex-Judge W. S. O'B. Robinson of Golds boro, who was Introduced by Representa tive Grant. Mr. Robinson has bren urged for the place by ex-Senator Marion But ler and others. An invitation to attend the opening game of the Department League. May a, was extended to the President today by M; O. Chance, president of the league. The first game will be between the teams of the Interior and Commerce and Labor departments, and will be witnessed by Secretary Nagle and other prominent of ficials. Kay Appoint Another Conductor. Ohio people say that the chances are good for the appointment of John Elder, a Hocking Valley railroad conductor, liv ing at Athens, collector of internal revenue of that district. The President ?