Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-17
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ner, ty way of diverson, in answer to your last epistle gen eral to the people. It would seem that one more of your colleagues be- side tMajor(3) O'Bren' has an unpleas- ant way Of remembering your shortcom- ings.
 ''ln the first place you stale that news paper correspondence is dis stasteful to you. How much more must it be to man not interested in a newspaper?" My dear senator, the closing lines are extremely funny. Editors of Puck would have paid you hands oneiy for that paragraph. Newspaper contribution distasteful to you; why |, my dear frend, if there is one thing more than another y0n are fond of, 1t IS to write, aud Justly SD, as your productions are always,in structive. You know there is no one in abama' who knows it better
 than do. But to your efusion of last Sunday.
 The Information to be gained from the "senate records' is just what 1 desire your constituents to examine. Iris not so much your sins Of omission l complain of as those of commission. l admit you were
 very willing to attend to the bills sng-
 gested by the commissioners court, and
 used your own judgment about those de- sired by the people. You are correct;
 your colleagues in the house did pass
 great many bills; they were trying to serve their constituency and not their private judgment. My dear sir, I am not
 responsible for the condition of your calen- dar. requested you 10 aid Ire in the pas sage of the following bills, which, thanks to-your manipulation, were showed under: ''lhe two weeks' pay bill - the wage. earners' lien law, Land the, auditor bill and the bill to regulate the commissioners court. Several of the twelve O. Brien bills you mention were called up by other sena- tors, to whom had spoken, and who re- quested me to see ''Senator Miluer,o as matter of courtesy, and have him make the request this did, hence was>ander very little obligation to you. Your acton on the "alien railroad bill" is well understood in Birmingham and in Montgomery; therefore I'll pass that by.
 Referring to the criminal court bill, you say: s'The next or the same day my col leagues in the house asked a conference on Jefferson bills. This bill was the only one discussed, as you know.' Nol emphati- caIly, I do not know. l was not present at any conference which had for it's object the discussion of the "inferior court bill.' If there was such a conference it must have
 been before returned from Cuba. did attend a conference Saturday, January 26, at which his honor, the mayor of Birming- ham, was present, and several bills which
 he had caused to be prepared were sub- mitted and discussed, but no ''inferior court bill.'' The first intimation had of the existence of such a bill was given me by Mir. Montgomery the next day after my arrivel from "abroad'' (Friday, January 25). He stated that there was such a bill
 on the house calendar, thatihe was candi- date for the judgeship and asked me to vote for him, stating that the others had | promised to do so. My reply was that was opposed to the creation of any more offices, as we had enough now; also in- | formed him that had in my possession a the beginning of the session by Hon. W. P. McCrossin, to which MT. McCros- sin will certify, and that would . not introd duce 1t and told him so, giving tAf> tzAa .1aax. question in this connection and in reply to your complaint: cannot see for my life how any man who knew the facts could find room to criticise my actions on this
 "court bill." If you were so anxious to | relieve an overourdened people by trying | to-reduce the pay of Judge Banks and So- | lictor Ferguson S1000, why did you not | continue the good work and kill the 'court | bill, '" which proposed to increase 1t s2700, l and why not pass the bill to reg ulate the conlmissioners' court? Consistency, thou art jswel.'' My senatorial friend, you have such a winning way of introduce ing witnesses. Did you expect any body to believe that men who are called to sit in judgment on their cases will do other than color their own verdict?
 l was not'sent to Montgomery to work in the interest of Jefferson county alone, nor in the interest of the wage earner in that particular county. My duty to all the ct- lzens of the state who come uader the pro- visions of the bill had equal claim on my services. You say, after quoting Senator AImon: ''I really favored the laborers' | lien bill and hoped it would be a local bill | for Jefferson county alone.' Now, my | What prevented you from amending the | bill SO as to make it apply to Jefferson | county alone, if your desires were so par | ticular as to be anxious for the welfare of only read by it's title when it was called up, you had due notice of it's provisions, for | explained it to you and read the bill to you 1 in full. You further say: 'As to your l two weeks pay bill, 1t never came before the senate for action, as it was killed, as learn, by the senate judiciary committee. ' Yes, thanks to your work, it was killed in
 the senate judiciary committee. No doubt
 you will deny the allegation,
 but before you do please call
 had with Mir. J. w. Worthington about
 "O'Brien and his two weeks pay and siml-
 lar bills" As to your statement: "The | fact is that the bills referred to coming
 expected they would come, did not know
 they had gone to the judiciary committee
 of the senate. You have only yourself to
 blame for the defeat of these bills.
 Oh. no, Senator Milner; you can't hide
 under any such gauzy and fimsy pretext
 as that. assert most positively that I
 gave you a full description of every one of
 the bills referred to. Hence you must have | been aware of the fact that the two weeks
 pay and the laborer's lien bills were gen . | eral bills.
 You dispute the statement that it was
 who introduced house bill No. 20, .'To prescribe and regulate the terms of the
 court of county commissioners of Jefferson
 county;, and you do this simply because
 the house journal records 1t that way. Per.
 init me to call your attention to several
 very fragrant errors of similar character.
 One of many such ,sais house bill, No. 70,
 'Tc prevent any person or corporation em-
 blowing persons as laborers to issue to such