The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09
MONTGOMERY HAS
 BASEBALL FEVER Political Gossip Just Now in
 Abeyance ABOUT CAPITOL EXTENSION Protest Is Expected to Come From Women Who Built Confederate Monument-sorth and North
 Case in Supreme Court.
ABOUT CAPITOL EXTENSION
BY HrRvEY W. LAIRD.

BY H-RVEY w. LAIRD.
 Montgomery July S.-(Speeial. )-There has probably never been so bad case of baseball fever in any southern city as in now ravaging the populace of Mont gomery. Everybody talks it and every body who can, sees it. Ladies struggle with each other for places on the cars and men crowd to the outer edges of the car steps to get there to "see 'em prac- tice" Court house officials stop to tell you how much one man ought to be able to get on his batting average and another knows and wants everybody else to be- come possessed of the same knowledge that this man or that should be given the pink slip" State house officials know the game and the standing Of players better than the sporting editors of the papers, and there is much of hustle all along the line every morning to make time for the afternoon game. Montgomery has gone baseball mad. But what's the difference? the people say; it is too hot to work. and as most all the inhabitants go to the park there is no business to remain at home for.
 Vacation Of Judges.
 The members of the state supreme court have begun to scatter out. Chief Justice Mcclellan will go to the gulf coast Jus tices Harolson and Anderson will go to Tate Springs. Justices Dowdell and Simpson will leave their homes, La fayette and Florence, respectively. July 25 for trip through the west, including stops at Portland and San Francisco. Jus tice Tyson has gone to Asbury Park, join ing Mrs. Tyson, who went some days ago. ing Mrs. Tyson, who went some days ago.
 Clerk of the Court Robert F. Iigon will be busy for several days getting his records in shape. after which he will go to some of the prominent watering points. while Secretary Leon MeCord will take to the Marshall county woods for the bal ance of the summer. There will be little work between now and the first of De- tober by any of the justIces this year. but practically all of them will be back at their desks on that date and will be busy until the formal call of the divisions the first Monday in November The docket is nearer Up than for years, and the court will be able to get along with their work at a more rapid gait than for many a de- cade.
 Famous Suits.
 The now famous suits of the minority stockholders of the South and North Ala bama railroad have gone to the supreme court, which means that they will not come out from legal uncertainty at least until after the first Monday in Novem- Der. Until that time there will be a wait ing by all interests, both sides having appealed to this higher tribunal A meet ing of the stockholders called for a few days ago did not materialize, 1t being unnecessary because of the injunction hanging over their heads estopping any thing of a definite nature in accomplish ment. At this meeting there was simply telephone session to make the minutes ''jibe" and all will now wait for the de- ciee of the court of last resort so far as tine state is concerned Incidentally some attorneys for both sides of the litigation made some valuable reputation as 1t was enc of the most interesting controversies In the annals of Alabama litigation, prom ising yet some fine opportunities for mak- ing individual names 1t was fought out in the lower courts by a number of the most brilliant attorneys not only in Ala bama but the south
 Confederate Monument.
 Incident to the remodeling of the new capit,l and the controversy which has aris, n over 1t, there is quite a little in- ttifSt III llc ulliIlldte lOCdLlD1l OI the handsome Confederate monument on the north portion of the lot. In any event the edition of right wing will hide much of this magnificent structure, and if the two-story plans finally prevail the lower portion will almost be obliterated from the eye standing at the front of the main structure. The monument is a work cf art, and represents the hard work of a number of years of hundreds of ap flf,x cla1 | petrate the memory of the heroic men of the war of the sixties.
 It IS safe conjecture that there will come from the women a protest if the veil beloved pile is in any way dis counted by the builders The result will likely be in the end of the removal of the monument to the front of the main building, which may be done at an ex- penditure of not more than 5000. This would place it in a much more commando ing position than 1t now occupies, and when surrounded with running fountains will aod greatly to the beauty of the building and grounds as a whole. Political Talk.
 The week has been one of quiet in a political way and nothing has developed that could be termed news item in any sense of the word. Men coming to the capital tell different stories about the strength of Conner and Cunningham for the governorship. One citizen of Mo- bile relates that Cunningham will be able to hold Mobile county in line, while an other says he believes he will carry that bunch of counties of which Wilcox is about the center. A Tallapoosa man thinks 1t would be hard to beat Conner in his neck of the woods, though he was not sure that good little run of Gun l ningham literature and speeches would not make some changes.
 He said that there were many in his section who believed that if made govern or Conner could get them all sorts of cheap railroad rates man from the