New-York tribune., 1909-05-25
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
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TFror1 The Tribune Bureau
WASHINGTON MAY 24.-The President spent Tue al
+arroon on the Chevy Chase golf links with Senator
Bourne They left the White House shortly ai'el
o'clock in company with the Nlce-FreslueN' anu
Captain Butt -,
Arter an extended conference this morning held
bv President Taft the Secretary of State and JohA
Havs Hammond it was announced that Mr. ham
rond had declined the mission to China MI nam
mond said that to accept the post would mean srea'
sacrifices on the part of his family. My IaHlly
and myself have lived everywhere until we Ieel
that we should settle down and look aIter INC
education of the children he added
The President has suspended the appointment Oh
Elmer Dover as national bank examiner IN Ne"
York.
The Presidents trip to Pittsburg the latter part
of this week has been mapped out. Mr.. Taft will
leave Washington on Friday night, arriving IN
Pittsburg on Saturday morning. Among other
things he will take part in the dedication OF d
fountain in Arsenal Park and visit Temple RodePh
shaiom. having accepted an invitation from RaDoi
J. L. Levy, who called with Representative Barcn-
field this morning. At night he will be guest al
the dinner of the Associated western faie CluOS.
He has received invitation to attend services at
the First Unitarian Church on Sunday morning.
He viii leave Pittsburg Sunday evening for Get
tysburg where he will make the principal address
at the dedication of the monument erected in honor
of the regular soldiers of the Union army Wno fell
on that battlefield The President hopes to reach
Washington that evening While he is in Pittsburg
IaushIn, the latter sister of Mrs Taft
A tentative programme was arranged to-day by
President Taft. Governor Prouty of Vermont and
Senator Dillingham; for the Presidents trip 10 Lake
Champlain to attend the tercentenary celebration
Of the discovery Of that lake. Leaving Washington
the night of July 3. Mr.. Taft Will reach Norwich,
Conn., for the celebration of the foundation of that
town. on the 4th. On Tuesday the 6th. he will
visit Fort Ticonderoga; on the 7th he will be at
Plattsburg and on the 9th. Vermont Day, will help
ha of The President.
according to the programme. will then go to his
summer home, at Beverly. Mass. This programme
depends on the passage of the tariff bill by July L
Houge to-day. but found the President very busy.
did not wait This afternoon, after the President
had gone to the golf links. William Loeb, jr..
called.
The President obliged decline an invitation
to help the Oklahomans celebrate the anniversary
Of the admission of that into the Union.
account of previous engagement.
Among the Presidents callers the Secretary
Of State. the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary
Of War the Attorney General the Secretary Of
Commerce and Labor. Senators Depew, Crane, Cur
tis and Burton. Representatives Dwight and Cas-
sidy, and ex-Senators Hemenway, of Indiana and
Wilson. of Washington
Charles Taft. the younger son of the President,
who has been at the White House for several weeks
while the Taft School Watertown Conn. was
under quarantine, left here to-day to resume his
studies.
Mrs. Taft is recovering rapidly from her recent
Illness and will probably be able meet her social
engagements by the end Of the week