The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-14
PreSidGnt-tO-Be Has Ideas on Tariff Different from His
 Parg Leaders
CLASH IS SURE ID COME
 ON TARIFF REVISION
Civil Service Commission Has Done Good In Making officeholders Att tend to Their Work and Keep
 Out of Politics.

Washington, November B. Especially 1 That Judge Taft will have a trying time with congressman over the Payne tariff bill was made more apparent than i ever at the hearings before the ways and means committee today. The word comes from Hot Springs that Judge Taft is distinctly favorable to a great 1 CT tariff reduction than the stand-pat- ters and in addition believes that the existing duties between the Philippines and the United States are outrageous. As Secretary of War, he used every ef- fort to get Congress to reduce the rates. even going to the capitol to talk to individual members.
 The upshot of it was that the AL drieh Payne clique ignored his sugges- tions.
 Judge Taft has decided to make the question of a reduction of the Philip pine tariff the first important step of his administration.
 As Secretary of War his recommenda- tions fell upon deaf ears. As President. l he will serve notice that he deserves more consideration.
 At the committee hearing this morn ing Representative Griggs of Georgia drew from M S. Floyd of the Connecti- cut leaf tobacco board of trade a state ment of surprise that Judge Taft should advocate a reduction.
 Floyd said Judge Taft loved the Fi1ipinos so much that he had forgot ten all about the American people. The republican members of the committee nodded approvingly and the democratic members smiled blandly.
 Floyd is q representative of the pow erfnl tobacco interests that nave given a black eye to every laudable effort of Judge Taft to help out our island pos
 sessions and they will continue to do so unless Judge Taft can muster majority of votes in the House and Senate. There is fun coming.
 Civil Service Growth.
 The civil service commission is con graduating itself upon it's record dur l ing the last presidential campaign, and i the declara tion is made that it has been i able to secure a much more strict en- forcement of the orders against polit- i ical activity in that period than at any 1 other time in it's history. A large num- 1 Der of complaints from various parts 1 several of the cases complaints were not sustained by the evidence but 1 where they were sustained punish ment by removal, reduction in salary sus- l pension or reprmand was meted out by the appointing officers in nearly every 1 case
 Investigation in some of the cases has not yet been completed but up to the present time ten removals have been or 1 dered and a large number of suspensions 1 and reductions have gone into effect. In l l6 cases reprimands were administered and the persons directed to withdraw l from further activity. Among other cases F. A. Hammons, a storekeeper, gauger at Covington, Ky, was removed and J. l.. | Mccoy, a deputy collector of internal revenue at Lexington was suspended for l 30 days Hammons obtained a contribu- 1 ton of S10 from Miss Frances Pigman, 1 the postmaster at Mallie. Knoott county and Mccoy couldn't keep away from the republican convention at Louisville. Up to this time one conviction has been secured in the case of A. c. Smith of Clayton, Ala, who was found guilty of soliciting political contributions in a government building Among other cases acted upon were the following: Nose Harris internal revenue collector, Aus tin, Tex. removed A. II. Hendricks. railway mail clerk, Atlanta, reduced from sl200 to so00 per annum; Sam Matthews, postofflce clerk, Macon, Ga, reduced s1o0; w B. Phillips, postoffee clerk. Colds boro. N. C., reprmanded: F. R. Rice. inspector of hulls, Charleston, S. C., re- moved and H. R. Thomas postoffice clerk, Greensboro. s. C., reduced sl00. orange-coIored Underwear. Orange-colored underwear is to become quite the rage next summer. Surgeon General O'Reilly and Inspector General Darlington consider it the color par cellence and that 1t may figure also in lingerie, pushing the spotless white to one side, will surprise neither. The two of- fcers have been experimenting In the laboratories here and have found that of all colors orange is the coolest Five thousand suits of underwear dyed orange have been ordered by the quartermaster general for the troops in the Philippines and in this country. The city show win dows are expected to revel in 1t next spring.
 The Outlook Story. The publication of the story that the Outlook with which the President is to be connected after March is owned by the Standard oil company does not seem to bother the President. It is all wrong for any one other than the President to be associated with Standard Oil Rockefel- Ter. Stillman and those exposed by the stolen Hearst letters are malefactors of great wealth, but the President at s1 a word from Standard oil cofrers Is the real type of citizen.
 Promotion for Meyer. Postmaster General Meyer now takes the place of Secretary of State Is the latest cabinet slate. Meyer was slated for the Secretary of the Treasury. but 1t is now stated MT, Cortelyou will remain there for while w. 8.
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 WhirlWind on Florida Coast
 West Palm Beach, Fla, November :. whirlwind struck this place today