The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09
In a Few States Some Good Positions Will Be Given
 to Democrats
REPUBLICANS GET ALL
 PLACES IN MOST STATES
President Has Decided That He Will Not Make Any Appointments to the Bench of the New Gus
 toms Court.

Beverly. Mass, August s-Beverly was hot today, but President Taft spent a lazy Sunday and did not seem to mind the more than 90 in the shade. He be- gan the first Sabbath of his vacation by going to the Unitarian church. Miss Helen Taft and Capt Archibald Butt were the only other members of his party Through the early hours of the afternoon the President sat on the broad veranda of his cottage overlooking the sail-dotted ocean and read "The Great ness and Decline of Rome,' by the his toran, Ferrero, who spent week at the White House with MT. Roosevelt.
 Near sunset the President took long motor ride with Mrs Taft. After din- ner he again sought the cool of the ve- randa.
 MT. Taft is going to dispose of the matter of census supervisors throughout the entire United States this week. Sec retary of Commerce and Labor Nagel and Director of the Census Durand are coming to Beverly the latter part of the week with list of names, and by the time they leave the President hopes to announce his position.
 Policy In Census.
 The President has fixed upon the poli- cy he will follow with reference to cen sus appointments from the south. In the states which are solidly democratic the President will divide the appointments E among the democrats and republicans. He will insist that the appointees shall not be active partisans, however, but capable men.
 From the so-called solid south tho President has picked out North Caro- lima, Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri as debatable states and will treat them on the same footing northern states, giving all of the jobs to the republicans. He will insist, however, that in these states the same standard of efficiency and character of men shall ob- tain. The states in which the division between democrats and republicans will be made are:
 Virginia, South Carolina Georgia, Flor ida, Alabama, Mississippi Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas.
 As to Virginia the President is repre- sented as believing that the bitterness of the recent primary fight in that state between Harry St. George Tucker and Judge Mann for the democratic guberna- toria nomination will give republicans an opportunity to make showing at the polls next November. Anything he can legitimately do to help the party In the state, 1t is said, he will gladly do. Sew eral administration officers and possibly a cabinet officer or two will make speeches during the Virginia campaign.
 Strained Situation.
 The President is giving serious consid- eration to the strained situation between Japan and China over the Mukden-An- tung railroad. The matter was brought to his attention by Secretary Knox be- fore he left Washington
 In the event of violation being lodged against either party to the treaty 1t is believed the matter will become question for consideration by all the powers.
 The President has definitely decided that he will not make any appoint ments to the bench of the new customs court. While 1t authorized the court, Congress failed to make an appropria- ton for the judges or any other of ficials If the President should appoint Judges under present conditions he would have to fix their salaries. This he does not wish to do. He has no desire to antagonize Congress and he believes that in both the Senate and House the members should have the right to express by vote their prefer ences in the matter of salaries. AS to the objection that 5000 salaries would give the customs judges greater com
 
 United States circuit court judges the President is said to feel that the high CT figure should prevail in both cases.
 MT. Taft has turned over bodily to Secretary MacVeagh the task Of select ing i've experts to form a tariff com mission under the new law. These experts are intended primarily to as- sist the President with information as to the administration of the maximum and minimum of the new law.
 Golf In Prospect.
 The President tomorrow will play IS holes over the golf course at the Essex Country club, where he will be the guest of c. w. Boardman of Washing ton. father of Miss Mabel Boardman, and life long friend of the Taft fam fly. Besides MT Boardman, John Hays Hammond will have hand in the game. MT. Hammond was one of the few visitors at the Taft cottage this afternoon.
 Sitting on the broad veranda at his su,.ner home on Woodbury Point, President Taft is in the very center of an ideal pleasure ground for vaca- tion. Secluded there in beautiful residence park made up of three or four estates are many palatial cot tages.
 The President will enjoy with Mrs. Taft the cool breezes from the bay and ocean. Looking toward the sea the island dotted waters of Salem bay arc fin the foreground and beyond are the broader reaches of Massachusetts bay. Behind are the woods and the pleas ant fields of Essex county, with per feet roads for motoring.
 The President expects number of visitors during the summer but the calls will nearly all be of social char acter. Many members of the diplo- matic corps have their summer homes