Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1906 — BACK FROM HIS TOUR [ARTICLE]

BACK FROM HIS TOUR

President Roosevelt Returns to Washington from His Voyage to the Isthmus. -

FULLY ENJOYED THE JOURNEY Impressed with the Canal, Porto Sice and Our Navy. Mlm Roosevelt Greets Him First— First Business, However, Is a Protest by an Indignant _ A Diplomat.

Washington, Nov. 27. Completing: a remarkable trip to Panama duringwhich he traveled several thousand miles by sen and visited not only tho isthmus, but Porto Rico as well, and voicing his thorough enjoyment of the entire voyage, President Roosevelt returned to Washington at 10:42 p. m. yesterday. The trip up the Potomac on the steamer Mayflower, to which he and his party were tansferred from thq Louisiana at Plney Point, was made without special incident. Daughter Greets Them First.

As the Mayflower pulled into the dock at the rear of the office of commandant at the navy yard Roosevelt, the president’s daughter, and Miss Hagner, Mrs. Roosevelt’s secretary, were awaiting to greet the party. Miss Roosevelt rushed on hoard as soon as the gang plank was laid, and affectionately greeted her father and mother. There was also at tho dock to welcome the president Captain McCoy, 17. S. A., and Lieutenant Commander Key, of the marine corps, tho president's aides, and the commandant and other officials of the navy yard, and the Uruguayan charge d’affaires. What Impressed Him Most. The president lauded ten minutes after the arrival of the Mayflower. The president and Mi’s. Roosevelt immediately proceeded to the WhiteHouse arriving at the executive mamslon shortly after 11 o’clock. As the president alighted from his carriage he shook hands with all the attaches and others waiting on tho portico. Speaking of his trip the president said: “We had a very pleasant —very enjoyable—time and lam deeply impressed with Ahe United States navy, with ranama and with Porto Rico.” The Tanama canal. It was stated by the president, will be a subject of a special message. Meets s Protest First Tiling. Pedro Roquena Bermudez, charge d’affaires of Uruguay, was the only member of the diplomatic corps who greeted the president upon his arrival. At the entrnneeto the navy yard Senor Bermudez was delayed by the marine guard, who refused to admit him without the consent of the commandant. After being delayed for twenty minutes he was admitted, and when the president appeared on the deck of the Mayflower the diplomat rushed-up to him and protested against the manner in which he had been treated by the marine guard.