The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-16

employees -. .........$ 80, S95.s3
Current expenses 49,. AZ, 1870
Cost in criminal cases. 34.S21.32
Supreme Court COST. 2SS.T5
s114,4 so
Net increase ......... 6,527.s2-s12o, 996 AZ
RECAPITJ LA,TlON
Net income for 1897. ................S %, 654 %
Net income for 1898. ................ 50. 1854
Net income for 1899. humanitarian. "a. 1856 10
Net income for 1900. 6,521S2
Total for your years. $1O2, 452 G.
AS far as observed it seems to have
Len the custom. not to split the fiscal
wear. but To take them regularly, which
would make the statement her IT ofore
made from this Department correct. but
if it is desirable to Begin Governor John
stons administration two months after
the beginning of the fiscal year. that is,
on the day he entered office, then a few
suggestions may not be aniss.
There came over from Governor Oa.es's
adm Illustration, to Governor Johnstons
administration, 500 bales of cotton. about
$4,000 due from the Tennessee Coal, Iron
and Railroad Company which was col
lected during Johnstons administrative
atc ut 10000 bushels of corn, about SO, 900
pounds of meat a fabulous quantity Of
potatoes and syrup, all belonging to the
convict Department, to say nothing of a
cotton factory and three well improved
farms, prisons. stockades and the like
Governor JOhnston's administration did
not earn these things, and Is therefore
properly chargeable with them. The sale
able articles were worth more than $4,000
so 1t seems that Governor Johnston's net
receipts were not misstated.
1t will be observed that the gross re-
ceipts of the Department declined in
amount every year but one during Cover
nor Johnston's administration. beginning
at Sl(2,9S9S SO In 1897. and reaching the
small amount of 1920, 1896. AZ in 1900 At that
rate of decension the whole Department
would become extinct in about eleven
years. for want of a single dollar of gross
receipts
How would the people like to try a bus
mess administration again which. in three
years, reduced the gross receipts So, 900 ?
Carrying the foregoing to The Adver-
User office for publication an addenda of
Captain Lawson's To his first card was
shown with the suggestion that if any
reply was desired, it might all be en-
bodied in one article. one thing is ap-
parent from the reading of Captain Law
sons article, that at present he thinks
the President of the Convict Bureau
bad man generally. and a robber partic-
ularly.
Perhaps he may change his mind with
in thirty days after the primaries. That
Is the time. so they say. within which
the boys who get defeated will cool off.
NO portion of Governor Johnston s work
Is claimed for Governor jerks. 1t was
stated in a report to Governor jerks that
the net receipts of the DEPARTING MT for
the year ending September 30 1901, was
,97462 but two months of that time was
Governor Johnstons IL he elects to claim
1t. The facts here inbefore stated in rela-
ton to what was received by the John
ston administration from the Oates adj
mlnistration. which were known to the
writer before the first statement made
and which would not have been referred
to, but for the claim of the $54. 900 seem to
constitute a good reason why October
and November. 1900. would not and should
not be claimed by Governor Johnston
The statement is repeated that Cover
nor Johnston found the Convict Depart
ment bankrupt. How 1t could be bank
rupt with 500 bales of cotton. $4,000 due
from the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail-
road Company which was collected 80 O00
bushels of corn, $4,000 pounds of meat and
great quantities of potatoes and syrup
mules cattle hogs and sheep in sufficient
numbers all on hand ana in good condi-
ton Is something the average man can
not understand. Maybe the Captain does
capt In Lawson states that the Nc
Curdy and Walter Brothers contracts
We're held up after the crops were plant
ed and they were force dto add 81 TO the
Price or suffer ruin.
These contracts, as before stated.
were made fourteen months in
advance of the termination of
of the old contracts. with a reckless
administration of Governor Sanford, and
the interests of the good people of th.,
State. Instead of being ierked up in
crop time, the contracts were made as
follows: Walter Bros, December 49, 1901
and McCurdy's. January, %. 1902 Just
before the termination of the old con-
tracts. Walter Bros. and Mr.. McCurdy
who are gentlemen and not to he blamed
Tor getting cheap conVicts, are alive and
doing prt&y well. and can tefl about the
monstrous robbery. If any one is inclined
to credit Captain Lawson's statement, in
relation to it.
mr. h,,t
only three farmers in the State who work
and all the rest of the farm
ers Will not object to the five-dollar d
month contracts, for they cannot get
contract was IS contract and it was
not disturbed, because not so unreason-
able. The suggestion of One-third women
in the contract is too light. No one thinks
II was ever intended TO put the females
there. 1t was not done. any way.
If the Hand Lumber Company has
dead heads. the contract on file does not
mention it. and if they have such. they
and one-legged men.
why not hold up the Tennessee Coal,
Iron and Railroad Company and the
Sloss Company, and makes them pay
tracts were made, at only from two to
four dollars per month belwo what they
were worth at the time. and would ex-
pire December 81. 1902. and the others
l.
less than they were worth at the time
and the contracts We're three and five
year contracts, "Sacredness of con-
tracts! The law contemplated that
some Governor. in the multiplicity Of his
duties might forget in the liherality Of
his soul, the duty he owed to the people
not able to hire convCts. and let them
out too cheap. while another Governor,
with a little more care, would see the
necessity Of settin gthe contract aside, |
and it authorized him to do it.
Captain Lawson is a shrewd man, but
he is far from being able to make the |
people believe that all the men connected |
with the Jelks administration are viola |
tors of contracts, dishonest and robbers. |
They are looking after all the peoples |
INTO the treasury tells the tale, Captain |
Lawson's assertions and hefuddlement Of |
figures to the contrary Notwithstanding |
III the Captain had been a little more |
IN earnest, it would have appeared to the |
man without a personal knowledge of |
he matter that the Convict DepaI tment |
had gone ont If business under the frOWn |
If iudignation of Mt McCurdy. Walter |
4rOs.. the Hand Lumber Company and |
the Horse Shoe Lumber Company the |
after Of which was paying one Bell. with |
Governor Johnstou's consent, s. per month |
for each convict, upon an arrangement |
shifting a $5-COntraCt from Bell to the |
Lumber Company Governor jerks set |
aside the contract. and got all the mon
" for tho state. And Vet all these gem |
lemcn named, except Bell, and of him |
nothing is known, are now on good terms |
With tho department. and the department |
with them; and they do say they are all |
Ielks men. all of which is respectfully |
'ubmttted. j. NJ. Carmichael.
Pocketbook's Journey.
Valuable papers and 81. 500 in notes were