The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-14
LaFo||ette Man Is Named
 for An Office
SENATOR MUCH SURPRISED
It Has Been Long Since Taft Appointed Anyone To Office To Ob1ige An Iusurgent But He
 Makes n Start
By wATrERsoN sTEALEY

Washington, December 13.-(Special) The first plum for Senator LaFollette under the Taft administration fell to the Winconsin statesman this after noon when the President sent to the Senate the nomination of G. Edward Schutz to be federal collector of GUS toms of the district of Milwaukee.
 The appointee was recommended for this place by Senator LaF'ollette more than a year ago. President Taft did not see fit to make the appointment. Sen ator LaFollette did not press the mat ter and nothing more was thought or 1t until the nominations were posted in the Senate this afternoon. Among them was the name of Schutz When Senator LaFollette scanned the list he ran his fingers through his pompaoour and wondered whether he could De- lieve his eyes.
 Not only had his candidate been ap- pointed but the nomination contalneo even far greater signifcance-h was the only candidate recommended oy La Toilette that has been appointed durlns the Taft administration. For long while all the leading insurgents or the Senate were on the "black list
 at the White House so far as appoint ments are concerned. President Tart withheld patronage from them In his effort to procure certain results In the passage of the tariff law.
 we are for principle rather than natronaRe." was the slogan the pro gressives used when they learned the | dictum of the President holding them | back from the patronage trough.
 we are willing to fight 1t out with | the President on this issue If 1t takes | all year" said one of the insurgents. They did.s The elections sustained all the insurgents with the exception or Reveridge. and some time before cleo tion day roled around Secretary Nor ton made his now famous announcement at Reverly that the patronage, so long withheld from the insurgents, Wouio he restored to them. This pronuncia- mento pleased the insurgents not be- cause they felt that they had forced the President to come over 10 them III a surrender of his original position.
 schutz the first appointee whose name has been sent to the Senate un- der the new dispensation for Sena- tor LaFollette, is prominent German druggist and business man, well known in that city, with a good, clean polit- ical record behind him and has been a very active republican in the LaFol- lette camp.
 His appointment, coupled with the nom- ination yesterday of Prof. B. H. Meyer of Wisconsin as Judge Knapp's successor on the interstate commerce commission, are accepted at the capitol as virtual over lures from the administration to senator
 LaFollette. The latter did not recom-
 mend Professor Meyer, who cannot be styled LaFollette's candidate for the in- terstate commerce commission. but If the Wisconsin senator had been asked to make a recommendation for that court he would probably have named Professor Meyer above all other men.
 Blow At Taft's Plans
 The first blow at the economy plans of the administration was struck with the sanction of the administration ftself to- day, when the first batch of supplemental estimates arrived at the capitol.
 Statements were recently scattered broadcast with the Presidents message, showing how much the government would
 save by pairing down the estimates on top of the estimates as submitted through Secretary Macveagh, number Of de- partments have appealed for supple mental or deficiency estimates and the margin of saving" will be considerably lessened If these extra appropriations, many more estimates for which are bound to come, are granted by Congress.
 More Funds Asked For
 The war department to day asked for supplemental estimate appropriation or S154, ,667 It is wanted for the construction of an electric power plant on the Island of Correeidor. In the Philippines. where heavy Notifications are being built The excuse for submitting this estimate after the regular army estimates went in Is that 1t was mot known" until October that this money would be needed and not until the opening day of Congress tnat Secretary Dickinson gave instructions ap- proving the estimate. Besides this supple. mental estimate, the treasury department submitted deficiency estimate for SSos- 574, of which $130.o0O Is for wages Of plale printers in the Bureau of Engraving ana Printing for the current fiscal year con
 gross has already appropriated over s1 900 for this purpose
 Collection Of Customs
 Although $5,250,00O was appropriated TOT the cost of collecting the customs in the fiscal year, which ended last June, there is request for a deficiency appropriation of $70,000 for that purpose. An estimate of $7l 650 was also submitted on behalf or Attorney General Wickersham today to pay the salaries and expenses of the pro posed new court of commerce from Jan uary 1 to June 30. 1911. An estimate was likewise submitted today for an appro- priation of s146,315 to reimburse the treas urv for two judgments against collectors of internal revenue settled by order of auditors of the department,
 One of the most significant estimates submitted today was one for $9l6,O0O for the forest service to reimburse 1t for money used in fighting forest fires This and other supplemental estimates sure to Be submitted will run up the total ap- propriations by quite large margin, so that the showing after Congress- ad1ourns will be rather different from that or the preliminary figures given by the Presi- dent in his message in connection with the discussion of his plans for retrsncch7: ment and economy. s.4, s,1 .a,a
 AIabamians For Clark U;
 Alabama, through it's chosen represen- tatives, went on record In caucus today,
 the subjoined resolution. being unaiii- mously adopted: Stj,. X
 By virtue of his great ability anu long service as a member of the. House of Representatives. Hon, Champ Clark 14