Show PRESIDENT TAFT ATTENDS BANQUETS IN W WASHINGTON Guest of the President and the Upsilon Fraternity Executive ExecutIve lJ tive t ve in Merry Mood Washington April 16 President Taft attended two banquets and made two speeches tonight but partook of neither feast I The President was the guest g est of the Bankers association of the Dis District District of Columbia early in the evening and after addressing the members and invited guests joined with his Washington Wa hington fellow alumni of the Upsilon fraternity in their annual dinner He arrived at the latter banquet in time to participate in Upsilon antics such s ch as as s were in or order order orcIer der cIer when he was a student at Yale and remained until the close of the ti festivities At It the bankers bonkers dinner the President P was ts introduced by William Williame A Kearns i president of ot the association Other 1 speakers were Franklin MacVeagh secre seere secretary secretary tary of ot the treasury Charles Nagel sec see secretary secretary of commerce and labor Senator Robert L 1 Taylor and Senator Jos W Bailey The President was In a merry mood m od at both dinners At each he discussed the hardships of a Presidents life lite and at nt the th Upsilon banquet declared that 4 one onet on t rm as President was enough for him He Re seemed however to be speaking in ill ina illa I Ia a sense Herbert L Bridge Bridgeman Bridgeman Bridgeman man president of ot tho tim fraternity in an ait address preceding pr tho the Presidents had bad given a recipe for tor obtaining successive terms Brother Bridgeman Brid offers me a recipe e or acquiring successive term jerm said the tle President I thank t you Mr Bridgeman but the first term terni i is enough for me Judging from the trou troubie I b bo bie e and worry of getting through the first of ot my first term the contemplation of terms ter or more than one Is more than I Ct n stand The President Pr was and chuckled t when he h uld Stid this His Us Ls applauded and the chief executive took c any ani serious edge elge oft off his remarks when he continued But seriously speaking however L This occasioned vociferous cheering and the President laughed heart ily The President talked biso so about his stewardship and Its ith it possibilities s at tho the bankers dinner There he ho discussed the development of the beauty of the capitol city and in that connection he remarked I 1 have to live Uve here three e years more Seven seven seven years more Inore was the answer to this statement from scores of tankers bankers around the tables Well President Taft replied judg ing from the influence of the electoral vote of the District of Columbia it Is not such as to swell my head any an by br your Our indorsement At the fraternity dinner the President lauded fraternity spirit in college life and also praised college athletics We hear a n great deal of ot athletics and things that add to the welfare In college life which are not in the curriculum said the tho President but you and I know that many things In our college life which are not exalted above mere learn learning ing and mental discipline have been of o f great value to us Secretary Nagel defended the tariff bill He did not speak at length but declared that the tariff bill was the bet best ever passed i Senator Bailey of Texas alluded to the I cries of seven years from the audience when President waft Taft was speaking and said Either President Taft will be here iven sen I n years more or we the Democrats will be here hero for at least four |