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Show TO APPOINT I MINISTERS I President Wilson Will Fill the Many Vacancies Vacan-cies Before the Beginning Begin-ning of Congress in Extra Session Monday Washington. March 31 President W llson i robably w ill HU the major ! ity of the nine ambassadorships now j vacant before the beginning of the extra session of congress next Monday. Mon-day. The president expects to confer with many of his friends this week and it Ib believed that when congress convenes nominations for the more Important posis will be sent to the senate. Todav's developments brought out thai Walter H. Page, editor of itao World's Work, and intimate friend of Mr Wilson, had been offered and has accepted the ambassadorship to Great j, Britain. Mr Page will start for Lon- I don within ten days ' It was stated at the White House thai with the exception of Mr. Page no offers had been made of any other diplomatic posts. The president has had under consideration a list of men to whom he Is favorably inclined, but the chief difficulty has been that many of these men hail from New York stale, vin.b he feels already has had j conspicuous recognition Two mem-bera mem-bera of the cabinet Secretaries Red-field Red-field and McAdoo Assistant Secre-tar. Secre-tar. Roosevelt of the navy depart-menl depart-menl and Mr Page have made their homes in New York for many years. Changes the Slate. Augustus Thomas, the playwright, and William Church Osborn have been prominently mentioned for dip-tomatic dip-tomatic places, chiefly France and Germany, but the fat I that bod come f1 from the Empire state is said to be a circumstance that is giving the president presi-dent no little embarrassment He Is known to hold both In high regard. Mr Wilson has been disposed to look further west, for some of his diplomatic appointments. and the jl name of Rudolph Spreckel6 of San ' Francisco as probable ambassador to Germany came forward prominently today. Mr. Spreckels practically organized or-ganized and manager the Wilson Na tional Progressive Republican league,' and his appointment, it was said, would be a recognition by the prenl dent of the aid given him by Progressive Progres-sive Republicans in the last campaign Elmer W Hurst of Rock Island. III., who saw the president today, also is said to be slated for a diplomatic Names Mentioned. Thomas Nelson Page and Joseph E Willard of Virginia, Justice J. W. Gerard1 of New York, Frederick C. Penfield of 1 1 erma n t own, Pa., and Henry Morganthau of New York ar among those under consideration for diplomatic appointments, but there H have been no decisions as to any of these meu as yet. The president had a taste today of the difficulties of tariff revision. Many of the callers came to talk for and H against various schedules To all the president listened patiently, but gave H not the slightest intimation of what was contained in the schedules of the H tariff bill He is studying on what would be his own attitude toward these subjects. A. Augustus Healy of the Brooklyn academv of arts and sciences, who H talked with the president about t h-i tarl ffon leather and hides, was in- H troduced by Serretarv Redfield H W F Sardls of Buenos Ayres urged the president to see that meat came H into this country from Argentina free of duty Senator Broussard and Cm erncr Hall of Louisiana protested against free sugar, while Representative Representa-tive Keating of Colorado told the president he favored free sugar, notwithstanding not-withstanding the protest of other congressmen con-gressmen from Colorado on |