The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-18
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tive action. The act provides for the re-
payment to Colonel Mckee of certain
money paid by MIN into the state treasury
on account of a state bond that was mis-
placed and lost whilst Colonel Mckee was
private secretary to Governor Rufus w.
Cobb many years ago. The attorney-gen-
eral informed Colonel Mckee at the time
that he was not responsible for the loss of
the bond; but Colonel Mckee, with that
nigh sense of honor and pride characteris-
tic of one of the truest and bravest-hearted
OF men, insisted on paying the state for the
pond The bond was never presented to
the state for payment. and therefore it
cannot stand hereafter as a claim on the
| treasury.
! A bill for Colonel McKee's relief passed
the senate two years ago, but failed in the
! mouse on a technicality. The present bill,
which has become an act, was pushed in
the house by Representative Horace Hood,
| editor of the Montgomery Journal, and in
the senate by Senator A A Wiley, of
montgomery. 1t was not introduced at
| Colonel McKee's instance, nor did he take
any part whatever in it's promotion. The
amount involved is about 81 800. and that
~ clearly debt of honor due by the state
TO former servant who served it faith
ruiiy and with distinguished ability.
| knew Senator Stewart, of Nevada, In
IN California in the early $685." sal da yeter-
an IN the lobby, land his reelection to the
senate reminds me of the fact. Bill Stewart
married intoan influential family. and that
maze MIN of some social consequence. but
ne could never get Office. He ran for sheriff
once but got beat two to one at the polls
lie was very unpopular young man. After
| a time he came to the conclusion that Calf
fornla had nothing for him and he removed
| TO Nevada, where he struck 1t rich in min
| ing. He accumulated q large fortune and
! bought seat in the United States senate
| lie mas made and lost two or three for
| tunes and the other day he repurchased
| MS senatorial sat- Stewart is worth prob
| ably $2o,O0O,O0O at the present time, all he
| mas to recommend him for the upper house
OF congress, which is fast becoming a mere
club of millionaires. Stewart and 1 wo----d
| alongside each other in gold mining in Ill
ifornia in 1851 The senator was deeply con-
| cerned In the notorious Emma mine swindle
| by which foreign investors were robbed of
enormous sums of mony."
| There is Greek who attends fruit stand
in Nineteenth street. and he is an inter-
| esting character. He was a soldier in the
Turko-Grecian war of 1897 and was badly
| wounded in one arm. He is a native of
| Sparta, and he boasts that three Sparta
| man could beat hundred Turk" He has
| always hearty greeting Off those passers-
| by who are civil to him. Hello, SPARTA
| man-strong Sparta-man!' constitutes his
| friendliest greeting, and he chuckles over it
| with great comfort.
| The recent cold weather did much to
| freeze the genial current of the Greeks soul.
| "Cold-coldr' he would cry-"too damn
| cold" And he would SILVER, but still smile
over the little charcoal fire in the fruit
stand A philosopher is that Greek. He
is laughing his way along through life.
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| I'm New Orleans, during Mardi Gras, 1
| had to pay 40 cents a bottle for Anheuser-
| Busch and 40 cents for three stomach tab
| let's said Oscar Lesser, of the Baltimore
American staff. "Such exorbitant charges
make bad impression on strangers. Nor
| NAL prices, it seems to me, would pay bet
| ter in the long rum
| President Barker, of the First National
bank is in New York, and SO are several
! men more directly interested in the Biz
mingham rolling mill. 1t IS understood that
| arrangements are in progress for making
| full financial provisions for the rolling mill,
| and that everything will be arranged to
| the entire satisfaction of the stockholders
and the Birmingham public generally.
General Shelley has returned to Wash
ington, and will be engaged there for a
fortnight in attending to private business
| affairs.
Hon. John Mcqueen came to town from
| Montgomery last night on urgent private
business and will return to the capital this
morning. Mr.. Mcqueen was greatly pleased
| when informed as to the senate vote on the
bill to abolish the court of commissioners
| of Jefferson county. He was likewise re-
joicing over the final fate of the Moody dis
| pensary bill.
He was chiefly interested in getting JEFF
ferson excluded from the bill, and he ought
to be proud of his own legislative triumph5.
| He has accomplished all that he set out to
do in tho general assembly mo other MEM
| Der of the house has added SO much to his
prestige as John Mcqueen has, declared an
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fights with remarkable tact and ability and
his constituents of Jefferson county take
UNSUITABLE pride in the spirited and ener-
| getic young statesman. The anti-commis-
sioners bill passed the senate by II votes
| to S, and the senate dispensary bill goes
to the governor as 1t was amended in the
house, including only about dozen coun-
ties. Jefferson is not one of these. John Nc
| Queen should feel satisfied"
II wonder If Senator Cunningham will
carry out his alleged threat of resigning his
seat in the senate observed another OBJ
servant man. 1.-THE distinguished senator
from Jefferson comes out of the session
somewhat politically disabled. AS to the
two most important bills respecting his
own county, the senate, over which he pre-
sides with SO much ability, has overridden