Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1912 — TAFT AIDE RECEIVED BY POPE [ARTICLE]

TAFT AIDE RECEIVED BY POPE

Major Butt Presents Letter from the President at the Vatican. Rome. Italy, March 22.—The pope ' received in private audience Major Archibald W. Butt, personal aide to President Taft.' Major Butt presented, to the pontiff

an autograph letter from President Taft, with which the pope was greatly pieaged, recalling the friendly intercowree between the holy see and" Mr. Taft in 1902, when the latter, civil governor of the Philippines, came to Rome to negotiate the question of the friers’ lands in the Philippines.