Hours. On week days (except legal holidays) the Library building, Main Reading Room, Periodical Reading Room, and Law Library are open from 9 a. m. to 10 p. m.; other parts of the Library, from 9 a. m. to 4.30 p. m. On Sundays and certain legal holidays the Building, Main Reading Room, Periodical Reading Room, Division of Prints, and Music Division are open from 2 to 10 p. m., the Librarian's Office and the office of the Chief Clerk from 2 to 6 p. m. LIBRARIANS SINCE THE INCEPTION OF THE LIBRARY. 1800-1814. THE CLERK OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (for the time being). 1815-1829.-GEORGE WATTERSTON. 1829-1861.-JOHN S. MEEHAN. 1861-1864.-JOHN G. STEPHENSON. 1864-1897 (June 30).-AINSWORTH R. SPOFFORD. 1897-January 17, 1899.-JOHN RUSSELL YOUNG. 1899 (April 5).-HERBERT PUTNAM. LIBRARY STAFF. GENERAL ADMINISTRATION. Librarian of Congress.-Herbert Putnam, 1315 Connecticut avenue Chief Assistant Librarian.-Appleton P. C. Griffin, 3 Kirke street, Chevy Chase, Md. DIVISIONS. Superintendent of Reading Room.-W. W. Bishop, 912 East Capitol street. Chief Assistants in Reading Room.-John G. Morrison, 1230 Irving street; Hugh A. Morrison, 2302 First street. In Charge of Reading Room for the Blind.-Esther Josselyn Giffin, The Mendota. Chiefs of Division: Bibliography.-H. H. B. Meyer, 2608 Tunlaw road. Binding.-Arthur R. Kimball, 1827 Kalorama road. Card Section.-Charles H. Hastings, 225 Eleventh street SE. Catalogue.-J. C. M. Hanson, 1244 Monroe street, Brookland. Documents.-James David Thompson, The Kalorama. Mail and Delivery.-S. M. Croft, 316 Tenth street NE. Manuscripts.-Gaillard Hunt, 1711 De Sales street. Music.-Oscar G. T. Sonneck, 3030 Macomb street, Cleveland Park. Periodical.-Claude B. Guittard, 1200 East Capitol street. Prints. Arthur J. Parsons, 1818 N street. Law Librarian.—Middleton G. Beaman, The Cordova. COPYRIGHT OFFICE. Register.-Thorvald Solberg, 198 F street SE. BUILDING AND GROUNDS. Superintendent.-Bernard R. Green, 1738 N street. Electrician. -Henry Whitehead, Laurel, Md. Captain of the Watch.-J. V. Würdemann, 124 Massachusetts avenue NE. THE EXECUTIVE. THE WHITE HOUSE. (Pennsylvania avenue, between Fifteenth and Seventeenth streets. Phone, Main 6.) WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT, President, was born September 15, 1857, at Cincinnati, Ohio, a son of Alphonso and Louise M. (Torrey) Taft. He was married at Cincinnati, June 19, 1886, to Helen Herron, daughter of John W. Herron, of Cincinnati; they have three children-two sons and one daughter. He was educated in the public schools of Cincinnati, iucluding Woodward High School, where he graduated in 1874; at Yale University, graduating (1878) with degree B. A., being second, or salutatorian, in his class, and elected class orator. The same year he matriculated at the Cincinnati College of Law, graduating in 1880 with degree B. L., dividing first prize; was admitted to the bar of the supreme court of Ohio in May, 1880, becoming a law reporter of the Cincinnati Times, and subsequently of the Cincinnati Commercial. January, 1881, was appointed assistant prosecuting attorney, resigning in March, 1882, to become collector of internal revenue for the first district of Ohio. Resigned the following year to enter practice of the law and continued in practice until 1887, holding meantime, from January, 1885, the office of assistant county solicitor of Hamilton County. In March, 1887, Governor Foraker appointed him judge of the superior court of Cincinnati to succeed Judson Harmon, resigned, and the following year he was elected to succeed himself for five years. Resigned, February, 1890, to accept appointment as Solicitor-General of the United States at hands of President Harrison, being, in March, 1892, appointed a judge of the United States court for the sixth judicial circuit and ex officio member of circuit court of appeals. In 1896 he became professor and dean of the law department of the University of Cincinnati, resigning both the judgeship and deanship in March, 1900, to accept appointment by President McKinley as president of the United States Philippine Commission. On July 4, 1901, President McKinley appointed him first civil governor of the Philippine Islands. In November, 1901, turned over the office of governor to Vice-Governor Wright, on account of illness, and returned to the United States to testify at Congressional hearings on the Philippines. In 1902 visited Rome at the direction of President Roosevelt to confer with Pope Leo XIII regarding the purchase of so-called "Friars' lands" in the Philippines; reached a general basis for agreement with a com-` mittee of cardinals, and returned to the Philippines August, 1902, to resume office of civil governor. January, 1904, returned to United States to become Secretary of War in President Roosevelt's Cabinet, being appointed February 1. NovemberDecember, 1904, visited Panama to confer with Panamanian authorities relative to the government of the Canal Zone. In the summer of 1905 visited Philippine Islands on a tour of inspection, accompanied by a party of Senators and Representatives. September-October, 1906, visited Cuba in an endeavor to arrange peace, acting for short time as provisional governor. In 1907 visited Panama, Cuba, and Porto Rico to attend to various pending matters and look into conditions, and in fall of 1907 visited Philippine Islands for purpose of inaugurating the Philippine assembly. June, 1908, was nominated by Republican national convention at Chicago for the Presidency, and elected, receiving 321 electoral votes to 162 for William J. Bryan. January-February, 1909, visited Canal Zone with a board of engineers. Received degree of LL. D. from Yale University, 1893; University of Pennsylvania, 1902; Harvard University, 1905; Miami University, 1905; University of Iowa, 1907; Wesleyan University, 1909. Has been President of the American Red Cross since 1905, and is a member of American Bar Association, National Geographic Society, Metropolitan, University, Chevy Chase, and Cosmos clubs of Washington, and University Club of New York City, and others. FRED WARNER CARPENTER, Secretary to the President (The Marlborough), was born December 12, 1873, at Sauk Center, Minn.; moved to California in 1882; was educated in public schools and private academy there; returned to Minnesota and took the degree of LL. B. in University of Minnesota, 1897, and master's degree the following year, when he was admitted to practice in Minnesota and California; returned to California in 1898, and was with the law firm of Bishop & Wheeler, in San Francisco, as stenographer to Charles S. Wheeler, until 1900; acted as Judge Taft's stenographer in the Philippine Islands until 1901, being made his private secretary when he was inaugurated governor in 1901; came to Washington as his private secretary when he was made Secretary of War; accompanied Mr. Taft to Rome in 1902 and to the Philippines in 1905, and again in 1907 when he opened the Philippine assembly. He resigned from the War Department July 10, 1908; March 5, 1909, was appointed by President Taft as Secretary to the President. Assistant Secretaries to the President.-Rudolph Forster, 3204 Seventeenth street; Wendell W. Mischler, The Dewey. Executive Clerks.-Maurice C. Latta, 2836 Twenty-seventh street; William H. Crook, 1473 Park road. WHITE HOUSE RULES. The following rules have been arranged for the conduct of business at the Executive Offices during the winter of 1909-10: The Cabinet will meet on Tuesdays and Fridays from II a. m. until I p. m. Senators and Representatives having constituents whom they desire merely to present to the President will be received from 10 to 10.30 a. m., excepting on Cabinet days. Senators and Representatives having business to transact will be received from 10.30 a. m. to 12 m., excepting on Cabinet days. In view of the pressure of the appointments at the Executive Offices during the Congressional session it would greatly facilitate matters if the Senators and Members could telephone for an appointment before calling, as many will have first made appointments in this way, and those calling without are therefore necessarily delayed in seeing the President. Visitors having business with the President will be admitted from 12 m. to 1 p. m. daily, excepting Cabinet days, by appointments previously fixed. The East Room will be open daily, Sundays excepted, for the inspection of visitors, between the hours of 10 a. m. and 2 p. m. FRED W. CARPENTER, DEPARTMENT OF STATE. (Seventeenth street, south of Pennsylvania avenue. Phone, Main 4510.) PHILANDER CHASE KNOX, of Pittsburg, Pa., Secretary of State (1527 K street), was born in Brownsville, Pa., May 6, 1853, son of David S. and Rebekah Page Knox; his father was a banker in Brownsville; graduated at Mount Union College, Alliance, Ohio, in 1872; entered the law office of H. B. Swope, Pittsburg, Pa., and was admitted to the bar in 1875; was assistant United States district attorney for the western district of Pennsylvania in 1876; was elected president of the Pennsylvania Bar Association in 1897; was made Attorney-General in the Cabinet of President McKinley in 1901 as successor to Hon. John William Griggs, of New Jersey, resigned, and was sworn into office April 9, 1901; was the choice of President Roosevelt for Attorney-General in his Cabinet, and was confirmed by the Senate December 16, 1901; resigned that office June 30, 1904, to accept appointment as United States Senator, tendered by Governor Pennypacker June 10, to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Hon. M. S. Quay, and took his seat December 6; was elected by the legislature in January, 1905, for the term ending March 3, 1911; resigned as Senator March 4, 1909, to accept the position of Secretary of State, and was nominated, confirmed, and commissioned March 5. The Assistant Secretary.-Huntington Wilson, 1608 K street. Third Assistant Secretary.-Chandler Hale, 1535 L street. Director of the Consular Service.--Wilbur J. Carr, The Ontario. Counselor for the Department of State.-Henry M. Hoyt, 1701 Rhode Island avenue. Assistant Solicitors.-William C. Dennis, The Mendota; Joshua Reuben Clark, jr., The Imperial; Charles F. Wilson, 2004 G street. Chief Clerk.-William McNeir, 1472 Newton street. Chiefs of Bureau: Accounts and Disbursing Clerk.-Thomas Morrison, 1443 S street. Trade Relations.-John Ball Osborne, 2116 Connecticut avenue. Far Eastern Affairs.-Ransford S. Miller, 1421 Chapin street. Latin American Affairs.-Thomas C. Dawson, 1650 Park road. Near Eastern Affairs.-Evan E. Young, 1755 Park road. Translators. John S. Martin, jr., 1731 F street; Wilfred Stevens, Wesley Heights. Private Secretary to the Secretary of State.-E. J. Babcock, 1334 Thirteenth street. Law Clerk.-Henry L. Bryan, 604 East Capitol street. DISPATCH AGENTS. I. P. Roosa, 2 Rector street, New York. W. A. Cooper, Post-Office Building, San Francisco. R. Newton Crane, No. 4 Trafalgar Square, London, England. UNITED STATES AND MEXICAN WATER BOUNDARY COMMISSION. Commissioner on the part of the United States.-Brig. Gen. Anson Mills, 2 Dupont circle. Consulting Engineer on the part of the United States.-W. W. Follett. Commissioner on the part of Mexico.-Señor Don Fernando Beltran y Puga. Secretary of the United States Commission.-W. W. Keblinger, 715 Fourteenth street. Secretary of the Mexican Commission.—Señor Don Manuel W. Velarde. STATE, WAR, AND NAVY DEPARTMENT BUILDING. (Superintendent's room, No. 148, first floor, north wing.) Superintendent.—Lieut. U. S. Grant, 3d, U. S. A., 1813 Nineteenth street. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY. (Fifteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue. Phone, Main 6400.) FRANKLIN MACVEAGH, of Chicago, Ill., Secretary of the Treasury (2600 Sixteenth street), was born on a farm in Chester County, Pa.; graduated at Vale in 1862; at Columbia Law School, New York, in 1864; abandoned practice of law because of ill health and went to Chicago, establishing in the wholesale grocery business; became president of Citizens' Association in 1874, which inaugurated many important municipal reforms; was nominated by the Democrats of Illinois, in 1894, for United States Senator and made a canvass of the State, but was defeated in the legislature; president of the Bureau of Charities and Municipal Art League; member of the executive committee, National Civic Federation; vice-president of the American Civic Association, 1905. Appointed Secretary of the Treasury, March 5, 1909. Assistant Secretary.-Charles D. Norton, 1925 F street. Assistant Secretary.-Charles D. Hilles, 2126 Le Roy place. Assistant Secretary.-James F. Curtis, 1718 H street. Chief Clerk.-Walter W. Ludlow, 712 Twentieth street. Private Secretary to the Secretary of the Treasury.-Robert O. Bailey. Appointments.-Charles Lyman, The Ontario. Bookkeeping and Warrants. Customs.-Charles P. Montgomery, 2825 Thirteenth street. Chiefs of Division-Continued. Printing and Stationery.-George Simmons, 5406 Ninth street. Public Moneys.-E. B. Daskam, 1433 R street. Special Agents.-George W. Maher, 1805 Belmont road. Disbursing Clerks.—W. S. Richards, The Portner; J. W. Townsend, Kensington, Md. SUPERVISING ARCHITECT'S OFFICE. (Treasury Department Building.) Supervising Architect.—James K. Taylor, The Highlands. BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING. (Fourteenth and B streets SW.) Director.-Joseph E. Ralph, 1246 Newton street NE. SECRET-SERVICE DIVISION. (Treasury Department Building.) Chief-John E. Wilkie, 2233 Eighteenth street. LIFE-SAVING SERVICE. Phone, Main 6400.) (The Evening Star Building, Eleventh street and Pennsylvania avenue. General Superintendent.—S. I. Kimball, 1316 Rhode Island avenue. Assistant.-Oliver M. Maxam, 1749 Park road. COMPTROLLER OF THE TREASURY. (Treasury Department Building.) Comptroller.-Robert J. Tracewell, 1746 Q street. REGISTER OF THE TREASURY. Register.-William T. Vernon, 420 T street. AUDITOR FOR THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Auditor.-W. E. Andrews, 1225 Fairmont street. AUDITOR FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT. (Winder Building, Seventeenth and F streets.) Auditor.-Benjamin F. Harper, 2846 Twenty-seventh street. AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. Auditor.-Howard C. Shober, The Kenesaw. Deputy.-James B. Belt, The National. AUDITOR FOR THE NAVY DEPARTMENT. (Union Building, G street between Sixth and Seventh streets.) Auditor.-Ralph W. Tyler, 928 T street. Deputy.-Byron J. Price, 1209 K street. AUDITOR FOR THE STATE AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS. (Small Building, corner Fourteenth and G streets.) Auditor.-Caleb R. 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