Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-28 | Page 14 | No More Appeals to be Entertained

No More Appeals to Be Entertained Neither the President 2tfor Secretary IToody Can Be Reached Over Head of Medical Board. WASHINGTON, May 27. Several mattors of Importance were considered con-sidered at the cabinet meeting today. It waa decided, on tho suggestion of Secretary Moody, that hereafter neither the President nor th Xavy department would entertain appeals ap-peals from applicants for admission to the naral academy at Annapolis from the decision of tho medical examining board. Heretofore It has been a practice prac-tice of such applicant as were declared by the medical board to be physically disqualified to carry their cases to the President or the Navy department in the hope of having the decision of the board overruled. Secretary Taft presented some of the reasons for bringing to the United States of a delegation of between forty and fifty high-class educated Filipinos. The better clans of Filipinos felt that in the exhibit of native at the SL Louis exposition the population of the islands was not represented fairly as tho Fili-pinoB Fili-pinoB at the fair were composed largfly of representatives of the wild and uncivilized un-civilized tribes. Secretary Wilson of the Department of Agriculture reported the discovery of tho ant in Guatemala with which it is hoped to eradicate the boll weevil.