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Show PLUM GOES TO A VIRGINIAN Royal E. Cabell Appointed Internal Revenue Commissioner, Succeeding Succeed-ing John G. Capers. v Washington. Royal E. Cabell, for the last three years postmaster at Richmond, Va., has succeeded John G. Capers as commissioner of internal revenue. Capers retires to take up the practice of law. Mr. Cabell is only 32 years old, and is the youngest man ever appointed to the commission- -l i er's chair. He is a graduate of Princeton Prince-ton and was admitted ,to the bar in 1901. Much importance now attaches to the position Mr. Cabell holds, for under un-der the new tariff law he will be charged with the responsibility of the collection of the corporation tax, in addition to several hundred millions of other revenue. President Taft met Mr. Cabell at the Virginia Hot Springs at a meeting meet-ing of the State Bar association the summer prior to his nomination for the presidency. They became very good friends, and this friendship has now landed in the lap of Mr. Cabell one of the most desirable plums. |