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Show Jtaft is leak i strenuous life ji: iPrsident-EIcct Kept Unusually f' "Busy as Day of Inauguration Draws Near. witiS- , fd ,Q: fit KEEPS IN GOOD HUMOR af: AND TAKES THINGS EASY ias llMf Holds Conferences With Knox a and Hitchcock, Who Will Be rf' in Cabinet. r tod WASHINGTON, March 1. A rush m of morning callers, interrupted for :i Jj long walk in lac afternoon aud nt- ppcS tendance at n special dinner given in nrins 1,onor hy 11,e "Tat Philippino dtS'oxpedition." brought President-elect H Taft to within two days of his inaugu-noatg' inaugu-noatg' ration with less serious demands on L$5his time than he Las experiencednny xedjS: other day since his return from imtPu Panama. rt: The apparent splendid physical con-nSSldition, con-nSSldition, the universal Rood humor and eatS absence from nervous strain of Mr. JjJSjl Taft, make a "ratifying impression. 4g The president-elect conferred with hJSSw Senator Knox .regarding many im-Stportaut im-Stportaut matters pertaining to thoncxt ot-M administration. Charles Naeel or St. CucsS! Louis paid his respects to Mr. Taft. ncntef lranlc II. Hitchcock also saw Mr. .?5aTafr. No other members of tho Taft ;"v,ffi cabinet arc in Washington, w;ith tho JJouST exception of I'optmastcr-Gencral Meyer o sm and Secretary AVilsou. 3nnoItf - Pretentious Diuner. ;c?dta The Philippine dinner was the uid3 most pretentious of tho enjoyable oc-casious oc-casious which this famous party in- O dulgo in every year. There were pres-3Kent pres-3Kent seven United States senators and . twenty-four members of the house, profiit The trip, in honor of which the niptoh dinner ws given, was famous be-'ecvnsc be-'ecvnsc of its matrimonial results. Itep-..JrfSfi Itep-..JrfSfi 'tentative Nicholas LoupT-orth and utMtttMj'ss Alice Koosevclt became bc-luIMin'ft bc-luIMin'ft rot lied; Representative Bourkc Cock-vaslaljrnn Cock-vaslaljrnn met Miss Idc. daughter of Judge iat Jdc of the Philippino commission, l?o55 who i? now Mrs. Cock ran, aud Roprc-ih Roprc-ih ,-tSi',v'c Swagcr Sherlcy of Keutuck.y fi Ofjmcti'liss Mignon Critton of Staten la iraf island, .to whom ho became cngaced. -i'M Senator Nathan B. Scott of West t ati ririiiia, ono of the voyagers, was ordoM, toastniaster. tionij May Give Loeb a Placo. '-ec'tlfl Changes in the diplomatic corps, tef Mr. Tatt says, Avill not bo considered Snnd, for some time to come. It is possiblo leuMj that several important places in the lnSjS' federal service 11133 bo filled and the M TU ""'"ftions go to the senate with tho initS cabinet. Tt has been predicted that hlsNt William Loeb, .i1"-, secretary to Presi- opfiidont Roosevelt, to be collector of the ilns- Y-gort. of New York, will bo ono of tho ffirS "Appointments of Mr. Taft. wt The passing of tho so-called nvtnf Aonnins club, established 113- Prcsi-EAlWf Prcsi-EAlWf dent Roosevelt, is one of tho vehicles w5 of pleasantry "between the outgoing rs-ttfc! imd incoming president. According to Inrnql tho slorv which is going tho rounds, SutiW, Mr. Roosevelt has accused Mr. Taft of '"S already starting an "opposition" ho club the 'buncombe club." In sev-adriiR sev-adriiR prM of his recent speeches in which priy criticism of tho Panama canal has nanwU been dealt with unspairingl Mr. Taft otwfi' has declared that 'buncoinbo cougress-SC cougress-SC m lnen" have been largeb' responsible, lcv.W: therefore the president, it is said, vlnci has joked with his successor of his AmtM " buncombe" organization. intreCf Arrangements are being made by 'dedh Taft for a tea to bo hold at the britw W"-t0 house March S in honor of tho m V4 wcuhers o the Yale class of nd "tWf wno are to attend the iuaugura- yoiuy tion. Taft is a member of this class. th?Sj Tho members of. the class will be givon vim a (-lnncr (,rin their stay in the cit-. |