Show HAY Much Executive Business Transacted at i ton Canton 0 O Aug Secretary of State John Hay Ha reached Canton short shortly ly lv before 11 U this morning to confer with the president on ona a number nimber o of matters demanding consideration in Jh inthe hithe the state department The secretary was met at the station n by Secretary Cortelyou and Dd taken takeD to the McKinley I I home where greetings were barely ex cx exchanged exI hanged changed ere are the cheit cheif executive and I the premier of his cabinet were deeply I engrossed in the work that occasioned occa the meeting m I During stay at y the pres pros president president ident denied d himself to ail all callers I While it is learned that the business I which brought the secretary of state to Canton is of importance Tt it is under nader understood I stood that there is no particular topic responsible for foe the conference and that there is nothing of or special significance calling for a determination on of policy All through the administrations ad the state department has hb bees been beean an exceptionally busy one owing to the many questions that have came up In connection with other nations While the conditions existing in Col Coi Colombia Colombia and Venezuela were doubtless reviewed by the president and secre seers secretary secretary tary today It is understood there Is I Ilot not lot ot any caR call for action other oth r than has been taken by this government and announced from Washington rn There are also some matters in connection with China that are to be considered soon by the state department including Including including ing the appointment of members member of the commission c to work out the details of the plan plans prescribed p bed in the protocol The president and Secretary Cortel Cortelyou Cortelyou you also had bad a number of matters more or less routine pending in the I state department depart nt which it was wu desir desirable desirable able to clear up |