The age-herald., 1899-05-30
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District Attorney Vaughan and Post ington whither they went to seek for slices of the census pie" The postmaster main- tains that they came out away up at the top, and that, in effect Congressman Un- derwood got his man, MT. Smyer, for dis trict census supervisor by their good will. And that has every appearance of being statement of simple fact. The applicant backed up by the powerful influence of the district attorney and the postmaster was, MT. Rives, a republican, who is a trusted employe of the Sloss Iron and Steel coni- pany. Smyer will be appointed district supervisor all right; but Rives secures aj- pointment as one of the thirty statisticians provided for by the census act, and as such will have charge of all Alabama. His work will cover four years at least, his pay will be six dollars day, with four dollars for expenses, and he will be al- lowed clerk hire. This is better than half dozen district supervisorships. More OhNlb IL io Seilu that lAIS IGpQDiIcduS are lO name one-half of the neumerators in this congressional district to serve under MT. Smyer and will get every one under their own party man in the Seventh, whose ap- pointment was dictated by Vaughan and Hughes, after being protested against by Congressman Burnett, who urged the ap- pointment of a democrat with the hope of strengthening the democratic party in that district.
 So it appears that the district attorney and the postmaster of Birmingham come out on top, after all; which will not sur prise any one. They are amongst the powerful leaders of southern republicanisir. Whenever the plum tree is shaken for@Ala- bama they get something, and quite prop erly so, for they are entitled to it so long as the political doctrine prevails that the victors should have the spells. It is under stood that Congressman Underwood nas personal claims upon MT. Merriam, the su- perintendent of the census; but it is al- legged that MT. Smyer would have been turned down" if Messrs. Vaughan and Hughes had insisted upon it. Indeed, ru- nor comes from Washington that MT. Merriam said as much in plain terms. And there can be no reasonable doubt that the president would have Sided with his Ala bama lieutenants had it become necessary for them to appeal to him.
 The Alabama State Bar association will meet in Montgomery on the sixteenth of June, and the annual address will be de- livered by Judge Henderson RI. Eomerville. formerly of the state supreme bench, and now a member of the United States court of appraisers at New York. The subject of the address will be "The Trial of the Alabama Supreme Court Judges in 1929. and Its Lessons to Posterity." Probably not one Alabamian in thousand ever read or heard of that trial so 1t will come as a matter of general informtion, though it occurred seventy years ago. It was a great event then, but even recorded his- tory has lost sight of 1t. Judge Somervile, who has been Investigating the records or the trial for several years, is eminently qualified to deal with the matter from the standpoint of the jurist. In his young manhood he was associated in law prac- tice with John J. Ormond, who was of the
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