The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-26
FOR BETTER HIGHWAYS
'PROM|MENT MONTGOMERY PHYSICIAN
 =z ENDORSES AND PRESCRIBES SWAMP -ROOT.
GOOD ROADS ASSOCIATION Tc
 MEET IN wAsHINGToN.
Hearings wIn Be Had Before the House and Senate Committees on Agriculture--Many VIII
 Be Present.
Advertiser Bureau,
 Colorado Building,

e5. 26 and g. The arrangements for this meeting were left in the hands of R. W.
 Richardson of Iowa, Secretary of the As sociation by the Association at its meet ing in St. Louis last April. The princi-
 pal object of the coming meeting will pc
 to attend hearings before the House and
 Senate Committees on Agriculture and
 this will be done during the three days l
 of the meeting. A large number of prom
 inent men from all over the country are |
 expected to be in attendance, the list be- l
 ing as follows:
 Executive Board-W. H. Moore, Presi- | 6ent; R. W. Richardson, Secretary; c. H. |
 Huttig, Secretary; Martin Dodge, Director |
 of the Manufacturers Association. St. |
 Louis; Col. Elliot Durand, National Bus |
 tness League. Chicago; Russell Harding, |
 vice-President and General Manager, Mis- |
 souri Pacific Railway, St. Louis; John |
 Kraft. Mobile, Ala; Governor G. c. Par l
 dee. Sacramento, Cal; William H. wad- |
 ley. Denver. Col; Cornelius J. Horrigan, 1
 Wilmington, Del; c. L. Anderson. Att |
 tanta, Ga; Robert Mitchell Princeton,
 Ind; B. P. Mcdonald, Fort Scott, Kas.; |
 John Dymond, Belair, La.: W. Irving |
 Walker, Millington. Md; W. l.. Diclxin- 1
 son.. Springfield. Mass; George E. Rowe.
 Grand Rapids. Mich; George W. Colley.
 Minneapolis, Minn.; Major Harvey W.
 
 neva, Neb.; H. I. Budd, Scranton. N. J.; Frank Wilcox. Syracuse, N. Y.; J. A. Holmes, Chapel Hill, N. C.; Frank Bow
 CT. Philadelphia, Pa: F. H. Hyatt Co.,
 lumbia, s. C.; Stokeley D. Hayes, Jack
 son. Tenn; Thomas H. Campbell. Pales-
 tine. Texas; c. P. Shaw. Alberene, Va.
 and James H. Stewart. Morgantown, W.
 Va.
 There are two bills now pending before ali n the construction of good roads. One or them is known as the Latimer bill. intro duced by Senator Latimer of South Car olina, and the other as the Brownlow- Gallinger bill, being introduced In the House by Representative Browniow or Tennessee and in the Senate by Senator GalIinger of New Hampshire. The non- partisan character of these bills Is shown by the fact that one was presented by Democrat and the other by Republicans. The Legislatures of number Of States.
 some Democrats and some Republicans. have endorsed the movement and in- structed their Senators and members to support whichever bill they consider the best While the bills differ somewhat Tn detail the principle is the same-that where a county or State appropriates money to be expended in improving US roads the Government shall allot an equal
  that the roads shall thereafter be maiii- tained by the State or county construct ing the same A number of States al- ready make appropriations to assist the counties and townships in constructing their roads, the cost being variously ap- portioned. A popular plan is for the States to bear one half the expense, the county one-quarter and the township one quarter, while in some instances the on1 Thus the burden is distributed so that tt does not fall unduly hard on any of the taxpayers, The Latimer and Brownlow bills propose that up to the extent or 600 per year for three years the expense shall be divided between the gen eral%goyernment and the State or local Government so that where State now appropriates $3O0.OO0 for the improvement of its roads it would be allotted SOO,0OO from the general treasury and where a county spends $lOO0J it would be allowed s1O.OO0 from the general treasury under the conditions above set forth. The re- suit of the passage of either of these bills would be that instead of $24OOO.0OO being spent in the improvement of the roads nf the United States during the next thrse years $4SOO0.000 would be expended. Some of the delegates from the South ern States who will attend the meeting are:
 District of Columbia-General Nelson A. Miles, Washington. and Thomas w. Smith. President Washington Board of Trade Washington.
 Maryland-Hon. Frank C.Wachter. Bal timore: R. W. Sylvester, President Mary land Agricultural College, College Park. F. O., and Joseph R. Foard, President Board of Trade. Baltimore. Virginia-Governor A. J. Montague, Richmond; Charles T. Lassiter, Peters, burg; Lewis II. Machen, Alexandria: H. w. Anderson, Richmond; James G. Penn, Danville. and George E. Murrell, Fontene North Carolina-Charles B. Aycock, Raleigh; George T. Winston. President College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts. West Raleigh; Hon. Theodore F. Kluttz, Salisburg; P. H. Hanes. Winston Salem; A. M. Scales, Greensboro; s. B. Alexander, Charlotte; J. M. Bearnhardt. Lenoir: A. A. Williams. Fayetteville; F. l.. Daughtridge, Rocky Mount. and w. c. McMackin.
 South Carolina-Hon. Wyatt Aiken. Ab- beville, and Hon. A. c. Latimer. Belton. Tennessee-Charles W. Dabney, Presi- dent University of Tennessee. Knoxville. FIorida-Governor W. s. Jennings, Tal- lahassee: H. w. Long, President State Good Roads Association. Martel: Hon. w B. Lamar Monticello. and c. E. Garner. President Board of Trade. Jacksonville
  Montgomery: w. M. Drennen, Mayor Bir- ningham; Hon. George w. Taylor De- mopoIis: Hon. William Richardson Huntsville: R. R. Poole. Commissioner Department of Agriculture and Industries. Montgomery: Captain J. M. Falkner, At torney, l.. & N. Railroad. Montgomery; Charles P. Lane, President Alabama Com Inercial and Industrial Association. Huntsville.
 Louisiana-Governor W. W. Heard, Ba- ton Rouge; Paul Capdevielle, Mayor New Orleans; Hon. James E. Ransdell. Lake Providence: Uriah Millaps. Monroe; Charles Schuler. Vice-President Four States Immigration Company. Keachie, and Henry Won Phul, Baton Rouge
 Mississippi-R. B. Fulton. President University of Mississippi Oxford; J. c. Hardy. President Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College, Agrcultural Col iege; Major T. G. Dabney. Chief Engineer FYazoo. Mississippi Delta Levee District. Clarksdale; Captain J. w. Lambert, Pro prietor Matches Democrat. Natchez: I T. Senter, EditOr Columbus Commercial. Columbus: G. W. Bynum, Corinth: T W. James. McComb City Bank, McComh City; Colonel A. E. Jennings, Water Val ley, and Captain W. W. Stone Greenvtue. Texas-David T. Houston. President Az ricultural and Mechanical College, Sta tion; Frank P. Holland, Manager Farm
 and Ranch. Dallas. and John H. Kirby.
 Houston.
 Georgia-Governor J. M. Terrell, Atlan- la. and Hon. L. F. Livingston, M. C..
 Covington.