New-York tribune., 1909-03-13
About People and Social incidents
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
tFrom the Tribune Bureau


Washington. March 12.-The President and Mrs
Taft introduced an innovation in receiving the
members of the diplomatic corps at the White
House this afternoon. The ambassadors. ministers.
attaches and women of their families were in
vted first to meet the Secretary Of State and Mrs
Knox. and were presented TO them in the East
Room. They then presented TO the President
and Mrs. Taft in the Blue Room, where the Presi-
dents of the United States always meet formally
the diplomats. Assistant Secretary OF State Hunt
inston Wilson assisted Secretary and Mrs Knox In
the East Room. and later. in company with them
Joined the President and Mrs. Taft when they met
the diplomats The dean of the diplomatic corps
the Italian Ambassador. and Baroness Mayor des
Planches were the first to be presented, both in
the East Room and in the Blue Room, and they
were followed by all OF the other members OF the
corps now in the city.
Mrs. Taft wore a gown of old rose satin. with
gold net and gold embroidery as a relief and Win
her stood Mrs. Knox. In the state dining roon'
where all of the diplomats met, the great taole
bore huge centrepiece Of pink roses Easter Hiies
and ferns. Mrs. Huntington Wilson sat at one eho
Of the table. and Mrs Lewis More, the sister OF
Mrs. Taft, at the other There were vases OF roses
and Easter lilies everywhere, and general All
Of daintiness in the spring toilets OF the women
while the court uniforms Of the diplomats aoueu
to the brancy Of the scene.
The President held his second Cabinet meeting
to-day. All OF the members were present including
jacob NJ. Dickinson the new Secretary OF war;
who arrived in Washington this morning, paid his
respects to the President and took the oatn OF oCe
in the War Department, returning to the Nhlte
House In time for the Cabinet meeting. President
Taft did not read his message to his cabinet To-
day, had been expected, as it is not yer written
Lieutenant Colonel Guy l. Edie, L. 5. A, and
Captain Matthew A Delaney, L. s. N. will be the
White House physicians replacing Surgeon General
Rixey, L. S. N, who was the physician 10 the
Roosevelt family. II is understood that Wlen the
President needs the services of throat specialist
Dr. Richardson will continue TO be his physician.
Speaker Cannon, accompanied by ex-Representa-
tive James f. Watson, called on the President
this morning with regard to the rules fight in the
House The Speaker called again late this after
noon He had with him Senator C1tllom, Of Illinois,
and Judge Walter Reeves, of Chicago who has
been mentioned for Assistant Secretary OF the
Treasury.
Frank B. Wiborg will not be named Assistant
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Beekman Winthrop, Assistant Secretary Of the
Navy and Ex-Governor OF Porto Rico, informed
the President to-day Of the death last Saturday OF
Jose Severe Quinones Chief Justice Of the Supreme
Court of Porto Rico.
Among the Presidents callers were Jacob NJ
Dickinson, Secretary of War, who will soon visit
the Panama Canal Zone to become acquainted with
the details Of the work; Richard A. Ballinger Sec
retary OF the Interior. who will make trip 10
Alaska TO faniliarize himself with matters under
his department. to study the coal lands. etc; Sen
ators ShIvely Burton and Flint. the latter accom-
panied by a. F. Munster, Collector Of Internal
Revenue at San Francisco: ex-Senators Patterson
and Fulton: Representatives Cullom. johnson and
IIollingsworth: Monsignor FalconIo the Apostolic
Delegate; Frank B. Kellogg. special attorney OF
the Department of Justice and Senator Nelson
who is vigorously opposing the appointment OF
Milton D. Purdy as Judge OF the District Court at
Minneapolis.