The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-20
TAI 7 TRAVELS
THROUGH SNOW
UP IN MONTANA
Freezing Weather at Butte
Discounted by Warmth of
The Reception Extended
to the President.
TWO SPEECHES IN
THE COPPER CAMP
In the Eastern Part of the State
the Chief Executive Spoke
of Veto of The Wool
Bill.


supplemental tour was com
pleted today aud the datesof his
return to Washington was fixed for NO.
vembcr j.. The original trip viii end
at Pittsburg October 81. Mr. Taft VIII
spend November | at Morgautown, w.
Va. and from there will go to Hot
Springs, Va, for Eve days. He will
spend only one day in Cincinnati. NO.
vcmber Z, when he will vote on the local
elections in that city.
From Cincinnati the president viii
90 10 Louisville. Ky. to spend Novem
Der s. He will be at Frankfort, Ky"
November q, and at HodgenvIllc, NY"
TO attcud the Lincoln farm celebration
Taft Will pay hurried visits to Nash
Vile, Tenn. Sewanee. Tenn, ia visit
the University Of tho South, where Ma"
jor " Archie Butt once went TO school,
and 10 Chattanooga. From the latter
city Mr.. Taft Will 90 direct 10 Washing
ton.
Today the president travelled across
the state Of Montana. bis train at times
running through fields of SNOW, The
temperature at Butte this morning was
below freezing. Il remarkable transition
in thirty.six hours from the sun baked,
torrid deserts Of southeastern California
and southern Nevada where the ther~
mometcr had hoycred around 100 in the
! shade.
Cordial Welcome.
| The president S welcome TO Montana
waFa non partisan but very cordial oc-
casiou. Governor Norris, Il Democrat,
and Senator Dixon. Republican, were
! among the more prominent guests
aboard the presidential train during tho
| day Senator Meyers. n Democrat, was
unable to meet the president, but sent
a telegram of greeting,
The day was not entirely devoid of
politics, however. for T. Arthur Mar
low. the Republican national commit
tecman for the state, Representative
Pray and several other Republican lead
ers boarded the president S tram and
were in conference both with Mr., Taft
and Secretary ll1lles.
One of the subjects discussed was a
successor 10 Federal Judge Carl Rasch,
who recently resigned from the bench.
field. but Mr.. Taft did not Indicate
whom he favored. He will give CON
siderable more time to the subject.
Judge Kasch was appointed to the dis
trct court little more than n year
ago. following his defense of former
Secretary of the Interior Ballinger, be
fore the Balhuger-Ii congression-
\ al investigating committee,
President Taft made two addresses In
Butte, ono at a breakfast rendered him
by the newspaper writer's and a second
al the Broadway tbeater Peace was
his theme at the latter place and fol
lowing his address Senator Dixon an
nounced that be ws5 III favor of the
early ratification of the arbitration
treaties with Great Britain and France,
In practically every state he has Wis,
tied thus far tine president has received
pledges Of support from tho senators
who have heard his addresses III adVo-
cacv of the compacts.
There were ten minute stops at Three
Forks, Bozeman and Livingston on the
way to Billings, Here tho president
was entertained at dinner aud made an
address in the Babcork theatcr. Leav.
ing here at midnight, Mr. Taft Will
spend Friday in Wyoming and Satur-
day. Sunday and Monday in South pa'
kota.
In several of his speeches today the
president referred feclingly TO the re.
| cent death of former Senator Thomas
X. Carter Of this state,
Gone Of the troubles about getting
r beyond fifty he said. els that so
many men begin to fall about YOU You
think one year is an exception, but II
is the same the next. and then YOU be
| =
cligiblcs yourself. =
Talks TO Wool Men
At Livingston, one OF the principal
, wool markets of the state, President
Taft spoke briefly about his veto of the
: wool and wooden bill
/. 81 am a moderate protcctionist. he
6 said. "electcd on a protective platform
and in order to maintain my pledge
8 was obliged 10 veto the bill. But there
; is coming in on the first of December
n report on The whole subject OF the
: wool and woolen industry. with a state.
{ meut as 10 tho difference in the cost
Of production in this conntry and
abroad and when that report comes i'll
il will he my duty to make recon-,
, meudation to congress rs TO the needed
. changes in schedule X.
. ~ understand that the question is
I up here whether We should tax wool IN
a the grease or the secured wool / uu.
. derstaUd that the Montana woolgrowers
. favor the lntter method That qUes
q ton comes before the tariff board, and
o wc shah hear from il which is the more
practical aud which is the more just
Q When we get more Information and
i make the recommendations, / sincerely
: hope that congress will act both in jus
Z tice TO the consumer aud in justice tc
those who are raising wool and those
i who are manufacturing woolens."