The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1910-03-20
TAFT HAS
BUSY DAY
President Arrives at Albany
Meets Governor and Talks
to Citizens.
CANADIAN TARIFF TO
BE CONSIDERED TODAY.
Earl Gray Also Present-Tsft In
Sympathy With the Fight
Against tuberculosis.

Albany. n Y, March l9-President
Tart. Earl Gray, governor general of
Canada, and Governor Hughes of
New York. met here today and formed
a notable trio of guests at the banquet
OF the University club tonight. The
President arrived from Rochester this
afternoon TO be a guest OF Governor
Hughes until Monday morning
Rumors that Mr.. Taft was TO have
an important political conference dur
i Ing his stay proved TO be without
/ foundation. The president announced
that he had made no engagements of
| political character. Mr. Taft was
greeted at the depot by Governor
Hughes and Mayor McEwan
The President was escorted to the
| governors mansion and from there
, was driven to the tuberculosis con-
| gress. where both he and Governor
I Hughes made addresses Following
| this the President and Governor
! Hughes motored TO the Watervliet ar
senal and shops
Earl Gray also arrived this alter.
! noon. He was met at the station by
the local militia and escorted to his
hotel. 0'fAF
Tariff Conference.
The Canadian tariff conference will
not be held until tomorrow. Earl
Gray will not. 1t is understood. take
part in the negotiations,
Upon his arrival today. the Presi-
dent received kilograms from lumber
men throughout the United States
| conveying varying suggestions as to
! the attitude he had assumed upon the
/ question OF applying the maximum
and minimum rates of the Payne-Ald-
] rich bill against imports from Can
ada
Although admitting that the sltua-
tion is grave as regards the prospect
OF a settlement with Canada. the
President is hopeful that a personal
interview with the minister of
finance may do much toward forward
ing negotiations
On tuberculosis.
The President on his way from
Rochester TO this city made stops and
] brief car-end speeches at Syracuse.
Oneida aud Utica.
Introduced at the tuberculosis con-
gress by Thomas H. Choate. the presI-
dent said in part;
AS du Va lhot piOPp'AN'SN -
merit like this would strike one as the
result rather of enthusiasm than of
real hope for betterment. because doc
trines which are TO he carried out are
80 numerous and call for so much la
Dor that ii seems hardly possible TO
expect a fruitful result And Yet We
ought to look about TO other expert
ments of the same sort We should
h,,s1 pun canal III
we had not had the war with Spain,
and the army surgeons had the oppor
mnitv to discover what il was that
spread yellow fever and how yellow
fever could be subdued.
Il congratulate the people OF the
state OF New York that they have
made such progress in this matter
The President closed by expressing
the hope that by 1915 or later .tniS
great scourge OF mankind shall be
conquered as malaria and yellow fever
have been"
W. G. Fielding. Canadian minister
oil finance. and Chairman a. Peter.
commercial adviser OF the state de-
partment al Washington. arrived mere
tonight They will attend the tarin
conference tomorrow.
1 Earl Gray Sut DIT lut Ilto'Nebe
right at the dinner Both took for
their topics tine friendly relations that
always have existed between the peo-
ple OF Canada and the United Stntes,
and expressed the hope that these re-
lntions always might be maintained,
a plea for faithful pnblic service ny
state and local Office holders was
voiced by Governor Hughes this alter
noon M the state tuberculosis confer
cnce. Earl Grey prefaced the main
portion of his address al the banduet
tonight with an appreciation OF col
lege sopSs sung during the evening
The phrase that appealed to him most.
he declared, was the one In the stem
song.' which ran.
IT'S always fair weather
When good fellows get together
so long" he added "as the Stars
and Stripes and the Union lack get
together. then II Is always fair wetner'
In my opinion.
Continuing. the encouragement
said.
II never visit the United States
without experiencing feeling OF
pride that we Canadians and Ameri-
cans are related by the close ties oil
a common ancestry; and that coase-
mently, although living under dinor-
ent forms of free and enlightened gov
ernment we are. so far as the real
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