The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-14
Taft Signs Commissions of
 More Than Sixty Men
DIVISION IN THE SOUTH.
In a Number of Southern States Super visors of Census Are to be Chosen
 Equally Between Republi- .tt
 cans and Democrats.

Beverly, Mass, August Bon this, Fri day, the thirteenth of the month, Presi- dent Taft's golf "hoodoo" disappeared There was a helpful change in the weath- CT, too, and under damp and darksome skies Mir. Taft and John Hays Hammond got their revenge against Gen. Adelbert Ames and W. J. Boardman of Wash ington by winning today's presidential foursome on the links of the Essex Coun- try club by l up It was the first time the President had won a game this week.
 Beverly took on much of the aspect of a real summer capital this afternoon with the arrival in town of two cabinet off cers, a high official of the government and several politicians of prominence Secretary of Commerce and Labor Nagel, Postmaster General Hitchcock and E. Dana Durand, director of the census, came down to look over the list of 330 census supervisors with the President. Cecil Lyon of Texas, republican national committeeman, came to talk Texas ap- pointments and to seek to have the Pres ident extend his trip through Texas in October.
 Republican State Chairman Tucker of Little Rock, Ark, came also to talk appointments over
 MT. Hitchcock also took up with the President the appointment of several post masters, whose selection will be an nounced later.
 Cecil Lyons Views.
 TsoIa Taft is going to see enough of Texas, ac- cording to the present itinerary. which takes him to El Paso, San Antonio, Cor pus Christi, Houston and Dallas. Fur thermore, the Presidents trip, as plan ned, carries him through three congress sional districts where cattle raising is the chief industry and free hides are not popular and through two districts devoted to lumber, which was reduced to SIPS on the tariff list
 Colonel Lyon told a story of President Roosevelts last trip through Texas. His route lay through the little town of Tenn pie. MT Roosevelt was invited to stop there, but wired that he could not pos sibly do so. Thereupon the city coun- ell was called in special session and passed an ordinance declaring that no train bearing a President of the United States could go through Temple without stopping five minutes. The railroad peo- pie were informed and MT. Roosevelt made a speech at Temple.
 Colonel Lyon was not ready to say that all the cities which he wants MT. Taft to visit will go as far as this. but he declares the people are anxious to see the President and that he ought to go through the most populous sections of the state
 Praeidapf Traff ha rIa Iac A. Overlook of Doug glass, Ariz., as United States marshal for that territory.
 MT. Overlook. the new marshal, is a business man, has mining interests in the territory and Is well-to-do.
 Invitation to Taft.
 Coincident with the appointment of the Arizona marshal, the President received an invitation to visit Douglass on his Forthcoming trip. The invitation was beautifully engraved on a copper plate and was sent by the hands of Postmaster General Hitchcock. It came from the Douglass chamber of commerce and mines and was signed by all of the officers in terested fin that institution.
 At an extended conference tonight with Secretary Nagel, Postmaster Hitchcock and F. D. Duran, director of the census, President Taft approved the appointment of 330 supervisors of the thirteenth cen sus. The list had been prepared at Wash ington for the President and the qualifi- cations of every man inquired into. There were some vacant districts fin Kentucky however, when the cabinet officers and the director of census arrived in Beverly this morning and these were put up to the President for settlement.
 There has been marked discomfort among some southern republicans over the decision of the President to divide the census patronage in the states of the "solid-south."
 Policy in Census Affairs.
 Col. Cecil Lyon. republican national committeeman, came all the way from Texas to tell the President that he would rather have the state put in charge of one supervisor-a good republican, of course than to have to divide the congressional districts with the democrats. Colonel Lyon said the declaration of this policy on his part held good for all of the states Oklahoma. he declared. had been included with Tennessee, Kentucky, North Caro- lima and Missouri in the list of nearly doubtful states that had been set apart from the other states for a full list of republican supervisors.
 'If Oklah homa is a northern state," de- clared Colonel Lyon today, T am in favor of moving Mason and Dixon's line still further south to let Texas in.
 When it is considered that each census supervisor will have a tremendous force of enumerators under him, the census patronage may be readily realized. Each of the supervisors will receive salary of 5000, but their work will extend over eight or ten months. The enumerators will not have sa long a service.
 Division of Supervisors.
 The states where the supervisors are divided equally between the democrats and republicans are Virginia, South Caro- lima. Georgia, Florida, Alabama. Mis- sissippi Arkansas. Louisiana and Texas. Director Durand said today that he hoped to have the supervisors actively at work by the middle of October. Presi- dent Taft, 1t Is said, laid down the rules especially In states where di- vision has been made between demo- crats and republicans, that supervisors
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