Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-10-22
TAFT And DlAz NET
ON BORDER Line BETEEN TWO
The TWO COUN TRIES.


Snort Meeting in Private Room
Grand Military Display-President
Taft First to Speak.
Ell Paso, Texas, Oct. 16.--The long
expected meeting between President
Taft of the United States and Presi
dent Diaz of Mexico occurred here to-
day. Outwardly it was attended with
display of soldieHy, blare OF
trumpets, a. booming of cannon and a
pomp of ceremony suggesting, supreme
authority, but in the actual handclasp
of the two executives and in the ex
change of courteous words that passed
from lip to lip there was simple but
cordial informality.
President Taft was the first to speak.
President Diaz assured President Taft
of his high esteem of the American who
had accomplished SO much in the Philip
j pines, in Cuba and elsewhere, and who
! had now the honor. to be the chief exec
utive of SO great nation as the United
States.
I President Taft, in simple, American
fashion, declared he was glad, to meet
President Diaz. He was glad to know
the president of such. great, nation;
especially glad to know the president
who had made the nation great. Both
= presidents dwelt upon the eordiality
of the relations existing between the
\ United States and Mexico.
President Taft declared that today s
=, meeting was not necessary to- make
stronger the bonds, of friendship; it
!, merely typifed the strength Of the
!, bonds as they already exist. Less than
score of persons were present to
witness the meeting of. the two execu-
tiUes
Even these were, excluded later
, when President Taft, and. President
Diaz withdrew into an inner room of
the Chamber of Commerce. building,
where the historic meeting. occurred
and where they were attended. only by
Governor Creel of the state of Chihua-
hua, former ambassador from Mexico
to the United States, who acted as in
terpreter.
! Crossing the Border.
4 The scene of the days ceremonies
shifted from time to time from the
: little American city across the shallow.
Z wandering Rio Grande river to. the
+ Mexican town of Ciudad Jaurez.
2 In the custom house there President
t Diaz received a return call from Presi
: dent Taft and again late this. even
e ing entertained the American presi
dent and a large dinner party at g
q state banquet, which, in all it's sur
1 roundings of lavish decoration. of bril-
= liant color, of wealth of silver plate
S handed down from the time Of thC
$ Emperor Macmillan, probably wal
:" the most notable feast ever served Oh
a the American continent.
1t was at this banquet that the more
a formal and public expressions of re
gard between the two executives a.
9 the representatives of the people O.
u the United States and of Mexico wer,
exchanged The banquet also marked
the end of the ebay of internationa
d pageantry-a day of cloudless skies.
IS Disputed Land Neutral
# An interesting incident of the da,
d was the declaration of neutrality owe
lie Ell Chamizal territory, a part of tn
city of Ell Paso, over which Mexic
y is contending for sovereignty TIL
a Chamizal territory was formed whe
a. the Rio Grande took one of its period
N ical spells of contraIiness and change
n its channel mile or two to the west
ID ward.
c. The contention of American author
u ties is that the change was gradual an
ID due to natural aeeretion from tn
10 American side. The Mexican author
W ties contend that the change was du
a to an avulsion of OF sudden chang
of course and that the United State
gained no additional territory by tn
shifting of the natural boundary lin,
nt The matter still is in dispute.
Ia was agreed between the government
er of Mexico and the United States toda
TO that this territory, which lies on tn
American side of the information.
e. bridge, shall be regarded as neutr,
s and that neither the American nc
th Mexican flag should anywhere be di
C. played thereon.
n AS President Diaz made his wa
through the Chamizal this morning I
or visit President Taft the road was line
e. with American troops. AS Preside1
of Taft passed over the disputed groun
sis to return the call the way was line
m with Mexican soldiers.
ii. Famous Diplomat Dies.