whicit occupied most of the cabins of the President Grant, were Mr. Joseph W. Byrnes, Speaker of the House of Representatives, seventeen Jsenathrs, 23 representatives, and the Yeading political writers of America Only a few passengers in the vessel were not members of the party and disembarked here. Among them were Mr. E, 5. Nathan, general manager of their children, has returned from a combined business and pleasure tip to England.
This is the frst time that a Vice-
President of.the United States has visited the Orient. A number of prominent American oMfcials have been here before, among them Mr. Howard "Taft, who later became President, and who visited Japan Secretary of War, and more recently, Mr. George H. Dern, present American Secretary of Wat. Mr. Garner, however, holds the distinction of being the highest official of the United tates Government to visit the Far East,
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