The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-10
SUBCOMMITTEE
 FIXES THE PLAN
Clerks. Managers and Return
 ing Officers Will be Paid
ASSESSMENTS LITTLE HIGH
It Is Estimated That Expense of the Primary Will Be Something Over $20oo-candidate Are Sat
 lsfied With Arrangements.

The subcommittee of the Jefferson county democratic executive committee, composed of J. B. Aird M. c. Ragsdale. W T. Poe. D. R. Copeland. E. A. Little. T. r. Prude and John McCartin. met yes terday and arranged the plan for holding the democratic primary for state and county offices on April II.
 According to this plan the clerks. man. agers. inspectors and returning officers at each voting place will be paid g a day and the returning officer will be al- lowed mileage charges for carrying the boxes to the Jefferson county courthouse. They will be allowed cents a mile going to and from Birmingham. It is likely that this expense will aggregate something like $500.
 On account of the heavy expense of the coming primary election, 1t was decided to assess each candidate about 1tz per cent of the estimated or fixed income of the office sought. It was originally intend ed to fix this at per cent. but this was found insufficient. and the amount was increased. It is estimated that the cost of the election will be something over s2OOO Following are the assessments fixed by the committee:
 The Assessment.
 Associate judge 40.00 Probate judge ........ .................. 125. .00 County solicitor ........ 40.00 Circuit solicitor ........ ................ 4OU0 Law clerk .......- .....................- lOOO0 Register ....... ......... .............. 75.00 Treasurer ...... ................ 4OtO Tax collector ...... ................. 65.01 Tax assessor ....... ................ 65.01 Coroner ............. .................... 3010 Superintendent of education ........ 35.90 Board Of revenue ........ ............. 125g Judge city court, Bessemer ......... 20a0 Solicitor city court, Bessemer........ 15M Clerk city court, Bessemer .......... 156q
 The plan is practically the same as that adopted at other primaries except that voters are not required to fix their ballots at the voting places so long as they usa the official ballot provided by the com mittee.
 As the solcitorshp of the Bessemer City coure is an appointive office, the fol- lowing pledge was added to the oath re- quired of the candidates:
 'I hereby pledge that if I am nomi- mated in the primary election to the of flee of county solicitor, to appoint as solicitor of the Bessemer City court, who- ever may be nominated for said office in said primary election by the democratic voters in the twelve precincts comprising the Bessemer divisicn."
 Polls Will Open at 8 a. m.
 The polls will be opened In Birmingham at 8 o'clock and will close at 6 o'clock as will be the case in all cities of more than 5000 inha abltants. All boxes must be returned to B. A. Thompson. chairman of the county executive committee, who will see that the vote is canvassed by the proper canvassing board.
 Several of the candidates discussed tho plan yesterday afternoon and last night and all of them expressed perfect satis- faction with what the committee had done though some of them thought the as- sessments a little high. They readily un- derstood the necessity of this increase and all of fhsm agreed that 1t was the best that could be done under the circum- stances.
 Within a few days the subcommittee will open headquarters. install a secre- tary and stenographers and get down to hard work until after the election.