The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-06

The appointment was authorized by sage to his office from Auburn, where he fs meeting with the board of trus- sees of the Alabama Polytechnic Insti- tnte. The formal announcement was tersc and contained the following statement only,
 'The governor authorizes the
 announcement of the appoint
 ment of Hon. II. R. romer as tem-
 porary United states senntor.v
 No statement was given cut as to how long Senator cpmeI will be per mitted to serve. No information could be obtained as to when Governor Kisoy will call the special erection for tho. selection of person to complete the term.
 Senator Conner VIII support
 Oscar ". Underwood. bis coI-
 league, for minority leader ef the
 Senate. This statement has been
 made By himself. thus assuring
 senator Underwood The full supp
 port of Alabnma. During the past
 twenty-four hours it had been re-
 ported that tue governors sp-
 p"intcc would oppose senator Up-
 der,vood because of differences be-
 tween the senator aud stntc ad-
 nit"tstration ou the lduor qucs-
 tion.
 WILL SUPPORT ANOTHER
 Senator Comer is no. expected to 1s in the race for the full unexpired term. His friends ndve announced that he will retire at the close of hls short term and will support another for the full term. Whom he witt sup rort no one is authorized to announce. However, il Gas been in acated that | ke will back former Senator Frank $. White if he goes In to the contest few minutes after the gover- I uor's appointment was made public here tonight. Former Governor Em- melt o'seai. here to confer with < friend~ reiatiye fe his candidacy.
 officially stated that he would he
 candidate and issue his pIatform ! within the next two days. alf. e9nef has been asfactor in Ala 1 haria@pohtics since the early part of , llle Twentieth century. He was first elected president of the Alabama puh~ lie service commission in m memorable campaign in whic9 railroad rates were the absorbing issue. He insisted that rates, pas senGer and freight were ex- horbtant. When he assumed office he announced that the latitude of the president of the commission was not sufficient 10 permit him to correct the alleged evils and he announced for governor.
 GOVERNOR I9O7t191I
 In another interesting campaign ne vas elected goyerr5-. He began his term iu January. 1907. and completed it in January 19lf. During this time Le established a record for legislation having called twos special sessions of the legislature.
 He also took credit during his term for bringing abcdt the enactment of the first statewids prohibition law which was repealed ln 1911 Senator Conner. barred by the constitution from running for reelection in 1911. be came candidate foi. another term in 1911. but was defes ed by Charles Hem 1erson of Troy. This ended his political career until today Governor Kilby considered two men for the temporary appointment after the names of vart- GUS persons lnentioned immediately after the vacancy occurred had been eliminated. These were Senator Conner and Frederick V Thompson of Mobile. B. F. Conner was bern in Barbour county. Alabama November 7 1s4s. He was in the class of 1885 at the Uni yersity of Alabama and graduated from Emory and Henry College in 1869. lie married Eva J Harris of Cuthbert i Ga. october ]. 1872.
 He was a member of the commits sioner's court of Harbour county, 1Sf4 fo 1SSn was president Of the Alabama raifroai commission from 1905 10 1sVT sud was ~pvernor of Alabama from f9Ja to t9li