Show Is under discussion by roosevelt root lodge and choate oyster bay sept 20 A conference of importance was held tonight at sagamore hill the participants being president roosevelt elihu root secretary of state henry cabot lodge united states senator from massachusetts and joseph H choate former ambassador to breit britain while it Is a subject of great concern to the country which was under consideration the nature of which was not disclosed officially tonight the opportunity port unity was embraced by the president to discuss with his visitors some matters relating to tho foreign relations of america this was tho first suitable opportunity the president has had to talk with 1 secretary root since he assumed his duties as secretary of state only recently the secretary returned from an extended tour to labrador since his return he has been completing his arrangements for assuming actively the duties of secretary of state secretary root senator lodge and mr choate arrived here together about what is the news here I 1 really know nothing worth publishing said secretary root as he shook bands with his newspaper friends 1 have just returned from labra dor and am not supposed yet to be the repository of many state secrets in response to inquiries the secretary said he expected to go to washington about october 1 and then would undertake fully to duties of office he did not care to discuss the object of his visit to the president at bis time further than to eay they probably would talk over a good many things neither senator lodge nor mr choate were more communicative regarding the conference than secretary root the visitors arrived just as a heavy thunderstorm broke over the village and left for the presidents home in a driving rain is not unlikely that among bolher topics of discussion the recent developments in the conduct of the life insurance companies received an important share of attention at the conference all of the visitors are more or lesa familiar with the insurance situation and as the president expects to take up that subject in his forthcoming annual message to congress in the preparation of which ho Is now it S natural that he should wish to consult his close friends and advisers about the matter all three of the visitors will remain as guests of the president and mrs roosevelt until tomorrow CREDIT SYSTEM FOR PANAMA washington sept 20 A new system of credit haa been advised for the employed emp loyes of the panama canal on the isthmus and will be out into ettelt about october 1 the system win meet the needs of the employed emp loyes and at the same time comply with the request of the panama merchants fco be put on an equal tooling with the commissary stores run by the canal commission under the of the panama railroad officials the system comprises coupon credit slips which will be issued to canal employed emp loyes wj demand in books containing credit respectively for 5 aad 25 gold the books are so made ma de up that for from 1 cent to 1 can be torn out as required em aloyes will be allowed to get these credit books on demand at any time up to a certain percentage of the total of due biem the merchants vm accept the slips under an arrangement which makes the tour banks of panama the clearing house be gween the merchants and the railroad radl road company no heritors Heri tors or tobacco are sold at the alve government which arc located along the line of the road and it has been decided to carry in commissaries commis saries only the of life FEVER CASES INCREASE now orleans la sept 20 report to G D m new cases BO total to date deaths 6 total deaths to date new foci 11 cases under treatment case cases s discharged SOO I 1 another increase in the new cases of bover vas reported today but mado no impression on the health authorities who regard the situation as definitely under control statistics of the board indicate that there has been a recent of incoming rail traffic on many lines from sections of the country new orleans sept 20 of tho eleven now disease centers only two were above canal street among the country reports were Keiu ier 11 cases 1 death bayou natchez 2 deaths 1 death KOMURA IS IMPROVING new york sept 20 baron komura the japanese peace envoy though still confined by illness to his apartments in the astorca today la improving the following as to his condition was given out today the condition of baron komura continues to satisfactorily and steadily improve COLORADOS RECORD SPEED boston sept 20 the officers of the armored cruiser colorado which nut in here taday for coal reported that in tho recent trials over tho new ono mlle course near rockland Roc klond me the warship attained the fastest speed ever made by an american warship on a trial cruise when manned by a naval crew the coulso was 2223 knots an hour in a four hour run to sea on sunday which ia within 04 of the speed she maddon her trial trip on the rockland test abo shin carried her heavy which was not board during hei trial lio and she was run wl hou a fun firemen 8 force |