The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-13

prompt legal action in auelling mobs and dealing with rapists, far in advance of other states.
 The bank bill which played such an | important part in the proceedings of the last legislature, was next taken up. MT. Lusk stated that he had voted against the measure because he knew 1t would injure
 numbers of small banks in the state He admitted that he owned $500 worth of
 stock In state institution at the time, but
 was no more disqualified for voting on the bank bill by this than the man who
 owns COW Is disqualified from voting for l or against the stock law.
 Mir. Lusk then made vigorous attack
 on his opponent for alleged partiality in
 appointing cadets from the Seventh dis | trict. He charged that Mir. Burnett had | appointed only the sons of men who were | in position to serve his own interests | and had shown partiality by naming ] three cadets from Gadsden when there were numbers of needy farmers sons who
 should have been given a chance. MT 1 Burnett denied this with some warmth
 and in dramatic style Mir Lusk forced
 him to acknowledge that he had given | appointments to three young men whom | he named one at a time, and who lived | in Gadsden. The crowd woke up at this
 juncture, and the little tilt stirred them | to enthusiasm. MT. Lusk said that if | he were in congress he would see that
 the farmers boy had an equal chance
 with the bankers son, and would leave l appointment open to all by a competitive | examination.
 Mir. Lusk closed his speech with an at
 tack on MT. Burnett for voting against bill introduced In the legislature to ap- propriate 5000 to erect monument to Confederate soldiers In Montgomery, and
 in burst of brilliant oratory paid a l tribute to the Confectionery that was well received by the crowd.
 Burnett Is Sarcastic. l When Congressman Burnett took up the | cudgels in his own defense he launched into stingfng denial of the charges made
 against him and poured out a flood of oratory mixed with keen sarcasm He de- 1 tended his course in congress vigorously and appealed to the voters to show how I or where he had voted against their inter ] ests, even if he did have railroad passes l in his pockets. He told of what he had ac-
 complished on the Coosa river and told | why his bill to establish thirty locks on | that waterway had been defeated. MT.
 Burnett detailed the three victorious bat | ties he has made for congress, and said 1 that MT. Lusk had voted for him three 1 times without word about railroad passes until his opponent took notion he | wanted to go to congress also. Said he ''LuSk SWaltoWeu me three times, passes
 and all. without gagging, and now he has | a fit at the very thought of free passes l just because he wants my job, or your | job. which you have given me"
 1 MT. Burnett said consistency was a | jewel, but Johnny" Lusk would not ! know 1t if he met 1t in the big road. In withering style he compared his six years | in congress with Lusks sixty days in the | state legislature.
 | He said his bill for the improvement of | the Coosa has been defeated by the direc- l ton of President Mckinley and had been | opposed because it was deemed impracti- cable. He said that he had now had survey made by the government, and was confident that his measure would pass in I an amended form, since 1t would be pos sible to make the Coosa navigable with only twenty locks, provided there was l SIX float channel
 1 MT. Burnett did not attempt to arg0e /, the pass question. but dismissed it with storm of rfdicule. He denied that his (continued on Second Pa1e)