The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-27
Cabinet Members Are Going
 Out on Speaking Tours
QUICK METHODS OF CENSUS
By Use of TabuIatfng Machinery Re- suits of Census Taking Will Be Madc Known in Marvellous
 Iy Short Time

Washington, April 6.-tSpecial )-Con- tipuing the policy recently inaugurated of making public defense of the admin istration against the attacks of the dem ocrats, insurgents and muck-rakers, several members of the cabinet are preparing to make speeches in va rious sections of the country. The first to enter the field will be Secretary of the Treasury Macyeagh, who will to- morrow address the Illinois society of New York. This will be rather an in formal talk, but on the following day he will discuss the finances of the gov ernment and the policies of the treasury department before the trust companies branch of the American Bankers asso- cietion.
 Attorney General Wickersham, on May 2, will attend the dinner to be given by Chairman Lloyd of the New York county republican committee and it Is expected that he will then make an address on the accomplishments of the Taft admin istration during the one year 1t has been in control.
 Later. on June 24, at Chicago, before the Illinois Bar association, he will tell what has been done by the legal branch of the government to enforce respect for the laws by the corporations and indi- viduals.
 Secretary of Agriculture Wilson will talk about the doings of the department before the Farmers convention, which is to assemble at St. Louis from May 2 to ', and other members of the cabinet will make speeches during the summer.
 By modern methods in the tabuation os the census the people of the united States will learn the results of the cen sus now being taken throughorE the country in record breaking time. The manner in which the tabulation is done IS most interesting. The family schedules and the enumerators' sheets are gent to Washington, where the figures are trans ferred to small cards. These cards are punched by hand, only the fllled-in blocks | being so perforated The cardA are then | fed into tabulating machines and pass under hundreds of needles. These needles neretrate the punched holes In the cards and dip into a pot of mercury, enectins an electrical contact which not only re- cords the results, but separates and tao- ulates the written entries
 When the card goes under the needle tb bose nlaces that are not perforated prevent the needles from reaching the mercury and therefore no electrical contact is made. As the needles pass through the perforations and come lnto contact with the mercury circuit is formed by which the delicate ap- paratus Is affected and instantly the transmission of the needle IS recorded In this way thousands of cards can he fed into the machine every hour and tbe machine, not only separates. hut adds the total punches and what they designate.
 The old method of enumerating cen sus called for hours of tedious count ing of rows of figures and the cards had to be gone over a score of times before the first result would be known.
 By the modern method the result will be known in comparatively snort time and while no definite date has been set. this will be a record census so far as the time concerned in mak- ing the result known to the coun- try.
 With view of consolidating the Brownlow faction in Tennessee politics the President today appointed John B. Cox of Johnson City district attorney Ot | incumbent, J. R. Penland, was ap- pointed by Roosevelt. This is the first appointment of importance that the Brownlow faction has received during the administration. It was represented to the President that the division in the ranks of the Tennessee democrats might be taken advantage of by a recognition upon his part of the Brown low faction. which all powerful under Mckinley has received only the crumbs under Roosevelt and Taft.
 S. A. Fowlkes, T candidate for the legislature from Dallas county, is here en route home.
 District Attorney Warren S. Reese of Montgomery received his commission today and left for home to oust E. J. Parsons from office.
 
 Means Democratic Governor
 Chicago, April 26.-It means dem ocratic governor of New York at the next election, was the comment today of Roger c. Sullivan, democratic na- +lonoI committeeman of Illinois On fhe