The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-10
INVESTIGATION
 NOW COMPLETED
POSTAL INSPECTORS WILL RE- PORT ON CHARGES PREFERRED BY SEYMOUR w. TULLoCH-NO PROSECUTIONS TO FOLLOW.

CouliSel OI the government in the prOSeCu- tion of the postoffice fraud cases, and it Is independent of and entirely supplement tary to the report made by the fourth assistant Postmaster General Bristow on the charges preferred by MT Tulloch.
 MT Bristows report, Mir. Conrad said tonight was simply a collection of the facts In the case as reported by postofhce inspectors and contained no opinions as to the merits of the charges. The investiga- tion made by Bonaparte and Conrad will go into the merits of the charges and will express an opinion as to whether the ac- cused persons are guilty of the offenses charged against them. The conclusions drawn from their inquiry will be embodied In report which will be submitted to the attorney general, the latter part of the week No prosecutions will follow any conclusions the report may draw as the offenses if any have been committed are barred by the statute of limitations. --~----------~---~-- substituting "able-bodied men" and mi nor' children.
 Joker Kelly of Choctaw secured the reading of a proposed amendment that the bill should not refer to lawyers, which threw the house into laughter.
 The Simpson amendment was adopted ana the blll passed.
 Afternoon Session,
 At the afternoon session there were a number of bills taken up and passed
 Il. 297-To provide for the pauper insane was passed without debate.
 H. 292-For the amendment of section 4795 of the code, was defeated.
 After considerable discussion H. 306, for the protection of secret fraternities in Alabama, was passed The bill makes 1t a misdemeanor for any person to wear the badge of a secret fraternity when the Wearer Is not a member of such frater- nifty.
 Considerable discussion was provoked by the consideration of Fl. PSI. to make all Ines al forfeitures payable only in the iswful money of the United States It developed that in many counties witnesses Tor the state in the courts are paid in script, which is not worth more than 10 cents on the dollar. MT Kelly moved the indefinite postponement of the bill, which carried.
 Commissioners Bill Postponed.
 H. go, amending section 967 of the code regulating the compensation of county commissioners was called up, and Mr. Walker moved that consideration be in- definitely postponed. The bill seeks to fix the per diem of members of the Commis- sioners' court at three dollars Mir Bynie and MT. Kelly spoke briefly in support of the measure. The motion to indefinitely postpone prevailed.
 The bill of Mir. Brown of St. Clair to further promote and secure the erection or cotton mills and factories In the state of Alabama was next taken up. It is the purpose of the bill to exempt from tax alton for a neriad of fa,, r,.t ruary 13, 1902, all cotton mills that may be erected in the state at a cost of $50. OOO or more.
 In support of the bill MT. Brown offered suggestions to the effect that the build- Ing or more cotton mills in the state tend- ed to increase the price of cotton MT. Brown quoted from recent editorials in the Age-Herald, bearing upon the estab- lishment of mills in the south. and he thought his bill would tend to bring more mills into the state as advocated.
 Thomas Offers Opposition.
 Mir. Thomas of Chambers, one of the farmer members of the house, did not believe that the exemption proposed would increase the price of cotton, and he op- posed the bill on the grounds of class legislation.
 MT. Haley moved the previous question on the passage of the bill and MT Lusk amended by moving the indefinite post ponement of the bill Mr. Handley of Randolph gained the floor and strSngIy urged the passage of the bill. He told of the results accruing from the passage Of a similar bill in 1897, and he wanted 1t renewed. MT. Handley told of the result of such legislation in the Carolinas, and said that when the United States should out-number England in the number of cotton spindles just so soon would 1t con- trol the price of cotton.
 Judge Walker of Madison spoke as the representative of a county that had been benefited by the act of 1892. exempting cotton mills. He said the building of a large cotton mill meant the building Jf a small city, and he told of the increase In property values of Madison by virtue of the several large cotton mills recently built there He claimed that while the mills might be exempted for ten years provision necessary to induce them to locate in the state, that taxable values were at once increased. Large mills are leaving New England and Alabama should offer extraordinary inducements to secure these mills. He wanted the bill passed.
 MT. kiIIen Gives Support.
 MT. Killen of Lauderdale added a word of support for the bill
 MT. Bogart of Jackson opposed the bill holding that the law did not induce the location of mills in the state. Mr Bogart took up some time in giving his views on the subject, and after he had concluded MT. Foster of Tuscaloosa said that he had been an interested listener to the discuss sion and that he had become convinced that the bill was a good one and snoud pass MT. Foster is one of the very clear speakers in the house and his argument in support of the pending measure was effective.
 MT. Mauer of Montgomery advocated the passage of the bill, especially caro- menting upon the working of a sim,ar law in South Carolina. MT. Hammer of Etowah also supported the bill. He as- serted that it was fact that cotton mills in the state tended to increase the price Of cotton. The bill passed.
 The Senate.
 The house bill of Representative Wood of Macon. authorizing the manufacture and sale of wine made from the juice of grapes in quantities of not less than d gallon by any person in the county of 
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