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Show oo PRESIDENT DELIGHTED OVER T DECISION AUGUSTA, Ga., March 12. Huntington Hunt-ington Wilson, acClng secretary of state, slipped unexpectedly Into Augusta Au-gusta today and had an hour's conference con-ference with President Taft He re turned to Washington tonight. It was later said his trip to th south at this time Was due to "his wish to accompany Mrs. Wilson to Aitken Coincident with the arrival of Mr. Wilson, President (.Taft received dispatches dis-patches from General Leonard Wood, chief of staff of the army, saying the mobilization of troops In Texas Is practically complete. The patrolling Of the Mexican border, bor-der, it is said, undoubtedly will be accomplished largely through a series of practice marches or "hikes " This will enable the war department to carry out its program of useful training train-ing "to the officers and men as a part of the work of maintaining the neutrality neu-trality laws. It can be said positively that there is at present no intention of increasing increas-ing the number of troops In Texas. It Is believed now that a sufficient number have been gathered to patrol the border. Acting Secretary Wilson's visit to the president offered an opportunity for an official denial of a report recently re-cently sent out from Washington that there had been friction between President Pres-ident Taft and state department officials. offi-cials. Including Secretary Knox, regarding re-garding the handling of the Mexican situation. President Taft's delight wns beyond measure today when he was informed of the decision of the supreme court upholding the validity of the corporation tax law. Mr, Taft's insistence put this law on the statute books. All during tho long tariff ficht over the Pavne-Aldrich bill the president insisted that such a tax would be held to be constitutional, despite the fact that many senators and others who opposed It expressed the belief that it would not stand a test. Mr Taft defended his action in signing sign-ing the Payne-Aldrlch law partly upon the fact that It contained the corporation corpora-tion tax provision. The corporation tax proved a great success, and in addition, to bringing more than $27.-000,000 $27.-000,000 into the national treasury in the first year of Its enforcement, It gave the government much valuablo information regarding many of the big inter-state corporations. The bitterness with which the tax was fought was reflected in the statement state-ment of a Chicago banker, now stopping stop-ping In Augusta, that his Institution alone put up $10,000 to test the validity va-lidity of the law. Tt now seems practically assured that President Taft while In Augusta will not act on tho cases of the two convicted bankers, Charles W Morse of New York and John R. Walsh of Chicago. Tho president has not looked at tho papers. To act upon them as ho usually acts upon pardon cases, would require several days of office work. Tho president came to Augusta Augus-ta for rest, and Is anxious to spend as much of his time as possible out of doors. Mr. Taft had an Informal conference today with Charles M. Dow of New York, halriharTjrof the lngara dom-misklon. dom-misklon. regarding future plans to preserve the 'falls from further inroads in-roads of power companies. Ho also talked over the subject or magazine postage ,wlth Albert Shaw and with 'B.fHowlnnd.'ftjvo"1 New York publishers. publish-ers. Mf. Taft today nlade the 18 holes of tho "Country club. golf course in 71 agalnst'loron Sunday last, and in much pleased with the Improvement Improve-ment his game has shown. |