The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-07
TAI 7 WILL ATTEND
MEETING AT YALE
Goes to New Haven Tuesday
TO Attend Special Session
of Corporation.

President Taft will go TO New Haven
| Tuesday to attend a meeting OF the
Yale Corporation the following day. He
will start back to Washington Wednes-
day night, arriving here Thursday The
occasion of his going is a called meet
ing of the corporation to take up mat.
tiers of special importance to Yale Uni
versity.
The White House today was crowded
with eXcursionists, many or whom had
put on their Easter finery ahead of time.
Some Of the coal-scuttle hats which
were projected above the horizon Of the
grounds Of the Executive Mansion made
I The police straighten UP and salute.
incidentally, many of these hats sur
rounded the President, like a series of
flower gardens, for he had to shake
hands with hundreds of the visitors.
Above the laughter and chatter of
the tourists, some of whom pronounced
rat as II 1t were spelled TART,
cal talk. This was that Spencer 3.
ADAMS, Of Raleigh, n. C, has bsSn Of
Tered the place of Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue to succeed John @. Ca
pers, OF South Carolina. II is believed
In Administration circles that Adams
VIII accept the place. and will take up
It's duties within few weeks.
Capers In Disfavor.
The peculiar significance of this
change is that Capers, although a ma
tional committeeman from South Caro-
lima, is in disfavor at the White House,
and will not be regarded IN the future
as a person of much Importance in the
awarding of political patronage All of
which means that the President is evil
IDENTIFY convinced that certain conditions
in Sou-f Carolina affecting politics
might be improved. 1t has been known
! for some time that Capers' advice on
appointments in his State has not been
Cd In ma 10
news of his being dropped does not
come as = surprise.
Adams is the man who has nothing to
Go but sit back and count the money
which, according to the finding of the
courts yesterday, xiii be paid to him
by former Senator Marion Butler of
Adams sued the two for libel and pro-
duced enough of the goods in court to
get the money considered necessary to
Salve his feelings.
night may be made on his appoint
ment by the Butler faction Of the party
IN the State, but II is thought hardly
possible that II will amount TO any
thing.
1T was announced ct the White House
| office this morning that the speedway
assemblies and concerts planned by
Mr. and Mrs. Taft viii not begin until
saturday, April II, on which day the
Philippine COnstabulary Band Will give
the first concert. The regular band for
these concerts, which will be given
tHiCc d WEEK. VIII De the GulIeQ states
Marine Band.
Capt Graham Johnson, or duty un-
der the Insuiar Bureau of the War De-
partment- today became junior aide to
the President.
Kalamazoo. Mich, will celebrate in
September, the twenty fifth aunivers-
AIRY Of its existence. and Senator Bur-
rows today invited Mr.. Taft to at
tend the festivities. The President
viii be unable to accept the 10 Vita
ton.
President Declines.
In like manner, Mr.. Taft thank
ed Representative Calder Of New York
| kindly, but regretted that he was IN
able to attend in Row York the cere-
monies in memory of the death of
the prisoner who was the. last Union
/ soldier to die in q Confederate prison.
The President today told Senator Nc
Cumber of North Dakota that ne be-
heved the tariff bill, as finally passed by
| Congress, would fulfill the pledge of the
Chicago platform for a downward re-
vision OF the schedules. AS was stated
/ I'm The Times yesterday, Mr. Taft is
satisfied with the outlook for a general
downward revision, and a speedy pas
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