The San Francisco call., 1910-03-20
PRESIDENT ONE
OF A NOTABLE
TRIO AT DINNER
Meets Hughes and Earl Grey,
Canada's Governor Gen.
eraI, at Rochester
Hopeful, but Admits Lumber
Tariff Situation in Regard
TO Canada Is Grave

ALBANY, n. Y. March 19.-President
Taft Earl Grey. 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 10 be the guest Of Governor
Hughes until Monday morning.
Rumors that Taft was to have an
important political conference during
his stay proved to be without founda-
tion. The president announced that he
made no enga gements of a political
character.
Taft was greeted at the depot by
Governor Hughes and Mayor McEwan.
The president declared that he was
feeling mt and ready for the issue"
Well. we have plenty of those. Mr..
President" remarked the governor.
ESCORTED TO MANSION
The president was escorted TO the
governors mansion and from there was
driven TO the tuberculosis congress.
where both he and Governor Hughes
made addresses. Following this the
president and Governor Hughes mo-
tored 10 the Watervliet arsenal and big
gun shops.
Earl Grey also arrived this after
noon lie was met at the station by
the local military and escorted TO his
hotel
The Canadian tariff conference viii
not be held until tomorrow afternoon
Earl Grey will not, il is understood.
take part in the negotiations.
Upon his arrival today the president
received kilograms from lumbermen
+E,ro-rcrIor-4 Aa
ing varying suggestions as to the atti-
tude he had assumed upon the question
Of applying the maximum or minimum
rates OF the Payne-Aldrich bill against
imports from Canada.
ADMITS SITUATION CRAVE
Although admitting that the situs-
tion is grave as regards the prospect of
? settlement with Canada. the presi-
dent is hopeful that q personal inter
view with the minister of finance may
do much toward forwarding negotia-
tions.
The president. on his way from
Rochester 10 this city. made stops and
brief rear end addresses at Syracuse,
Oneida and Utica.
Introduced at the tuberculosis con-
Eress by Joseph II. Choate, President
Taft said in part:
AS an original proposition. a
movement IKE LnlS WOuiO Slrlke
one as the result rather OF enthusi-
ssm than of real hope for better
uent, because details which are to
BE- carried out are so numerous
and call for so much labor that it
seems hardly possible TO expect
fruitful result. And vet we ought
to look about to other experiments
Of the same sort. We should
never have built the Panama canal
II we had not had the Spanish war
ana the army surgeons who had
the opportunity to discover what
ii was that spread yellow fever
and how yellow fever could be
subdued.
I congratulate The people of the
state of New York that they have
made such progress in this matter.
We look TO you to help us out in
every regard in this nation You
have got the men and you have
got the money, too. One of the
things that troubles the executive
at Washington and congress is the
constant appeals that come from
those states that insist on a very
narrow construction of the federal
powers until it comes to contrib
uting from the federal treasury.
You have set the example of put
ling your own house in order and
of doing IL yourselves.
Now. / am far from saying that
that view ought to keep us at
Washington from doing every
thing possible under the federal
constitution to help along this and
like movements in other states. We
have an agricultural department
and we are spending $14,000,000 or
or S15.oo0.000 TO tell the farmers,
by the results of our research
how they ought TO treat the soil,
the hog, the cattle and the horses
with a view of having good hogs
and good cattle and good horses.
Now, there Is nothing in the con-
stitutfon especially about hogs. of
cattle or Of horses, and If out of
the public treasury at Washington
we can establish 2 depa rtment
for that purpose. II does not seem
10 be a long step or a stretch of
logic TO say that we have the
power TO spend the money in a
research 10 tell how we can de-
velop good men and women.
The president closed by expressing
the hope that by 1915 or later, this
great scourge OF mankind shall be
conquered as malaria and yellow
fever have been"
WILL ATTEND CONFERENCE
". G. Fielding, Canadian minister of
finance and Charles A Pepper, com
nlerciai adviser Of the state depa rtnent
st Washington arrived here tonight
They will attend the tariff conference
tomorrow.
Earl Grey sat at the presidents
right tonight. Both took for their
topics the friendly ties that have al
WAYS existed between the people of
Canada and the United States ana
expressed the hope that these relations
might always be maintained.