New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-09
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
rFrom The Tribune Bureau

fFrom The Tribune Bureau
Washington. Aug s-The President sent
a long list OF diplomatic nominations 70 'ne
Senate Immediately after the morning Cav
met meeting.
The secretary OF the Treasury, the Sec
retary of Commerce and Labor, VINO Is III
Michigan: the Secretary OF War VINO ID III
Cuba, and the Secretary OF tho Navy VINO
is In England. were the absentees from
to-days Cabinet meeting.
The Secretary OF state announced atter
the meeting that Charles II. Sheriff. MIN
lister TO the Argentine Republic, hao re-
signed. His place was filled TO-DAY.
One OF the first things President TAFT dih
on arriving In his Office this morning was
to sign the reapportionment bill, which
reached the White House yesterday.
More than one hundred and fifty tele-
grams urging the President to veto all
tariff legislation prior to the report OF the
Tariff Board have reached the White House.
Numerous letters OF congratuiation on tHe
signing Of the arbitration treaties. lnciuu-
ing one from the First Church OF CHRIST
in Hartford, founded by Thomas HOOKER
have also been received.
The President has received a photograph
Of the will Of George washington. the or'gi-
nal OF which he saw In the Fairfax Court
house on his recent trip to Manassas. COP
les OF several poems dedicated TO interna-
tional peace and celebrating the signing or
the TWO arbitration treaties have been re-
ceived.
Republican Congressional callers to-day
told the President It is the general oeNeI
that the insurgents in the House VIII stahi
nv him in his veto Of the wool and Free
List bills
President Taft has been invited by the
Mavor OF Dallas, Tex, to witness the FIRST
day of the registration for Mellette ana
Bennett counties lands, on OCTOBER q u
attend the ground-breakinG ceremonies oi
the Panama Pacific international EKposi7
ton at San Francisco. In OCTOBER; 70 AT
tend the Interstate Live Stock ana HORSE
Show at St Joseph, Mo, or SEPTEMBER %
10 attend the Coffey County fair, AT BUT
lington. Kan, on September Is; TO attehu
the Arkansas State fair at Hot springs Oh
Octoher o; by the Peoria, Ill, Association
NJ Commerce.. composed OF twelve hundred
r,amhers to attend the National Implement
and Vehicle Show, on October S: to attend
the fall festival at Hastings, Neo'; 10 'iSi'
the Reno Masonic lodge, at HUTCHINSON
Kan. on September n; to visit the Texas
stete Cotton Palace at Waco, on Novem-
hep 4. 10 visit Grinnel College, at Grinnel'
Iowa. to visit Stage Fort Park, Gloucester
Mass. on Gloucester day. August Ii; by the
Mayor. the Chamber of Commerce. the
Manufacturers Association and Represent
alive Moon. 10 visit Chattanooga on MS
Southern trip; 20 be the guest OF the Cham-
her Of Commerce OF New Haven on the
,,,obt a, his visit 10 the Connecticut State
Fair. bv the National League of Unitarian
Laymen, Of which Mr.. Taft Is honorary
rres,dent. 70 speak at the national confer
ence OF the Unitarian churches of Washing
ton. october % to %; by Associate Justice
Day, TO visit Mackinac Island Miehisdn,
by the Legislature OF Texas, through Sam
Ravhur. Speaker OF the Texas House ana
G. Y. Terrell, president pro ternpore OF the
Texas Senate, TO visit Austin on COLUMBUS
day. October 70: by the soldiers monument
committee. 10 attend the unveiling ana ded-
,cation of a monument TO the Civil war
veterans at Moscow, n. Y, on September
70. ~ the people OF Bangor, Me, through
Representative Guernsey, to attend inc
Maine State Fair, on August =; py the
Chamber OF Commerce Of Columbus, ONO
10 address the American Purity Federation
convention. on October o; to visit the fall
festival and farm products shows and state
dremen's tournament at Waumego. Kan,
on September 26; by the people OF sumter
Green. Hale. Perry. Choctaw and Marengo
,ounties Ala. to visit Demopolis, on No
vember 8: to visit the interstate fair at
Sioux City, Iowa, on September Is; by MAJOR
General George NJ. Jones, to attend the re-
union of the United Confederate Veterans
at Springfield Mo, on October /; by Sen
ator Owen and the Oklahoma delegation In
Congress, to include oklahoma City In his
Western trip, and sby the Commercial AS
ISOLATION OF Kankakee, H., through ex-
Sneaker Cannon, to visit Kankakee In Sep
TENDER.
Among the White House callers were
Senator Smith. OF Michigan; ex-senator
Carter, Representatives Broussard, Calder,
Kahn. Madison. Cullop. Slemp, Booher,
Powers. Clark, Lewis and Borland.
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