The age-herald., 1899-07-11
GIVES OUT THE INTERVIEW He Had With the Governor At
 the Ca apitoI. HE BRINGS PL0WMAN INTO IT And Tells How the $ooO,Oo School Appropriation Bill Was Side- tracked in the Senate to Save
 the Montevallo School
HE BRINGS PL0WMAN INTO IT
BY F. ". CYST.

BYE. ". CYST.
 Coumbiana, July 10.-(Special.) .)-Youf correspondent was in Montevallo this morning and called on Captain H. c. Rev. holds with a view of learning the facts con- corning the matters now in dispute be- tween him and Governor Johnston, as to certain occurrences during the last session of the legislature in connection with the appropriation for the Montevallo school. Captain Reynolds was asked about the denial of Governor Johnston that he wrote any such note as was referred to in the recent reply to the report of the finance committee of the board of trustees. Cap tain Reynolds expressed a willingness to give me the facts in the case, and did so Captain Reynolds, after calling my atten- tion to the positive denial of the governor, showed me a copy of a circular letter written by him to every member of the board of trustees, the governor included. under date of December 12. The following is an extract from that letter:
 "I see that our bills in the legislature for the repayment of the '95 money, as well as the bill for the $15,00O will pass. MT. Plow- man, myself and others made trips to Montgomery in the interest of the school, and l feel sure the school is appreciated by the legislature The only regret Is that we have not the meape to do more work, but suppose under the circumstances we will be obliged to put with this amount, and feel grateful if we can control this even."
 The Governors Letter
 After I had perused this paragraph, the following letter was shown me, which I copy verbatim:
 State of Alabama,
 Governors Office,
 Dec. 13 1S9S
 Dear Sir:-I have your letter and am gratified at the account you enclose. and the progress reported.
 'To this date have been unable to get such amendments to our revenue laws as seem to be essential.
 Ut looks as if the nstitutional c c,nve ention will be called. That will cost next year something like S76,OOO, and unless the gem eral assembly shall provide additional rev enue 1t will be impossible to meet any new appropriation. I cannot consent to legisla- ton that will create another deficit.
 Yours truly.
 JOS. F. JOHNSTON, Governor. MT. H. c. Reynolds, President, Montevallo, Ala.
 Captain Reynolds then proceeded to ex- plain the circumstances attending the re- ceipt of this letter. He said:
 "On the same day I sent out the letters, of which the above is part, I went to Montgomery. While standing in the lobby of the house with my son, W. B. Reynolds, tato approached by MT. Cory, who either handed me letter, or told me that there was one for me in the governors office. When I opened the letter I found the above. read it and handed it to the parties with me. They read 1t and one of them re- marked that it meant we must fight the convention bill to win our own appropria- tion. went at once to the governors of- flee, and asked him what I was to under stand by his letter. He said to me unre- servedly:
 "If the constitutional convention bill passes I will veto your school bill, as the convention will cost from 75 ,OOO to SI25 OOO."
 "I plead with him that he was not fair in making such a contingency, but he was positive and immovable. I then related
 
 who said in substance: we will pass both bills, and if he vetoes yours, we will pass it over his head" I showed the above letter the same day to the editor of the Advertiser who begged me then to let him publish 1t as an indication of the gover- nor's position on the constitutional conyen- tion, which nobody had been able to find out up to that time. I refused to let him publish the letter."
 At this point I asked Captain Reynolds concerning the other matter referred to in his statement and in the governors reply, namely, the proposed appropriation of $6O0,- 000 to common schools. He replied that his son. w. B. Reynolds could better inform me about that The latter was seen, and he gave me the following statement:
 Inteiv.ew With Plowman
 While my father was in Washington l received a telegram from Captain Plowman, who was in Montgomery say ing Come at once; mischief is to pay I went down Immediately and was met by Captain Plowman with the informa- tion that the governor had informed him that he would veto our bill, which had passed both houses, and was then in the governors hands, unless the bill appropriating $6O0.OO0 to the common schools was killed in the senate. We