The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-26
COMER'S ELECTION
COST HIM $8499.96
Alternate Senators Not Re-
CURED to File Statement
STATE BOARDS ARE TO MEET
The Trustees of Two institutions VIII
Assemble In the Governors Office
Tomorrow-other News
of the Capital City.
STATE BOARDS ARE TO NEE

recent democratic primaries for the Of
flee of governor of the state, has filed
his expense account incident to the cam
paign. It is sent to the secretary of state
by his son. j. f. Conner, and shows a total
of SS.499. SO, somewhat less than 1t cost
him to be nominated for president of the
state railroad commission three years
ago.
The items in the account include the
following: Publishing speeches and other
articles submitted to the newspapers,
So .425. 9s: travel and hotel including livery
and railroad fare $S37; advertising dates
for speeches, 1888: postage and clerk hire.
s., 1886 10; printing campaign literature, SSH
stenographers, 800 30; telephone and tele-
graph, s67; incdentals, $685.; state COM
mittee, $780, total, $S49996
Incident to the law demanding the
filing of expense accounts, 1t Is Interest,"
ing to note that there is no provision
for the filing of such for alternate SEN
ator, as that was not in the list of Officers
recognized by the statutes. However, most
of the candidates who ran for this nomi-
nation have filed sworn accounts, one of
the yet backward being former Governor
Joseph F. Johnston.
Peterson's Vacation.
Two boards of trustees of state insti-
tutions will assemble In the office of the
governor next Thursday. that of the Poly
technic institute at Auburn and that OF
the Girls Industrial school at Monte
vallo. the latter being called today.
The business of the Montevallo board
will be to take up the question of the
illness of President II. NJ. Peterson and to
grant him a vacation in order that he
may go away and try to restore his
health. The other will have the matter
of electing a treasurer up, to succeed
the late Treasurer Glenn. 1t is likely that
his daughter Miss lie Glenn. will be Sc
lected
The members of the Montevallo board
include the following: The governor and
state superintendent of education; A j.
Dickinson and S. w John, Birmingham;
Phares Coleman, Montgomery II. Aus
till, Mobile; S. D. Bloch. Camden; A. II.
Aston, Clayton; II. S. d. Mallory, Selma;
M A. Graham. Prattville; f. s. Moody,
Tuscaloosa; W. R. Dorch, Gadsden; Vir-
gil Bouldin, Scottsboro; Phares Coleman,
who has only recently come to the board,
succeeding Jones ]. Moore of Blocton,
resigned.
Pension Warrants.
The warrants for the pensions of old
soldiers are now being made up and will
be gotten out at the earliest date the
auditor can get them signed up. Tell the
old soldiers that we will get them out
as quickly as we can, certainly by Oe-
tober TO- said Auditor Carmichael to-
day. we are working as hard as we
can and will soon have them in shipping
shape"
Judge Carmichael who is the state
auditor, and has lot to do with land
matters. has a unique letter on his desk
in which he is asked to give decision
in favor of a Macon county man In a GER
tain tax matter because of the loss by
the party writing of $3.50 In a poker game
last Saturday night IT hope" says the
writer, that you will decide this in my
favor as l need the money I got into
poker game last Saturday night and lost
$3.50 to some elegant gentlemen" The
judge will write him n READ warm letter,
1t is predicted
The matter of remoal of the county seat
of Washington county from ST. Stephens
to Chatom, a petition for which is now
in the hands OF the governor, Is being
Investigated. Governor Jelks has written
to the county for the opinion of the other
side and to know without question If the
petition filed contains a bona fide majority
of the voters. So far. however. there has
developed no opposition to moving the
court house. II 1t is proven that the peti.
ton has a majority of the voters the
governor will authorize an election.
Long Is Paroled.
The governor has paroled Thomas Long.
a Mobile county white convict, serving
a sentence of twenty years for murder in
the second degree, that he may go home
to see his brother, who is In a dying con-
dition. The executive says: "On the re-
commentator Of the solicitor and the
board of pardons, this man is hereby pa
rolled that he may see his brother who
is now In dying condition, before he
dies, said parole to extend to the 5th day
of October. 1906"
The expense accounts of T. c. NcClel-
Ian, who was nominated in the recent prl-
mary for ASSOCIATE justice Of the supreme
court. and J.. L. Burnett, nominee for
Congress. in the Seventh district. have
been filed The form or spent 1852; the
latter $104 80
Congressman A. A. Wiley has presented
to the state department of archives and
history q set in seven volumes of the
Journal of the Confederate Congress. 1t
is published by the government from the
original and covers the whole time from
February 4, 1861, in Montgomery, to March
IS, 1865.
Cotton Men Meet.
The Alabama cotton men lat a meeting
of the state division of the Southern Cot
ton association today s Inscribed $10.1S0 to
Il fund, or rather took stock to that
amount in plan to be worked out by the
officers of the cotton association to hold
out a certain amount of cotton to control
the market Just how the matter will be
is yet to be decided upon
The. meeting was largely attended. the
speakers being Congressman J. Thomas
Hefn and f. d. Smith, field agent of the
Mr.. Heflln severely censured
the cotton brokerage Offices and gave
them credit for the troubles about the
price of cotton and the failure Of the mar
ket to be what 1t really should be instead
of what it is at time.
The meeting was presided over by the
president of the Alabama division, w. II.
Seymour. who introduced the speakers.
Harvie Jordan. president of the national
association. did not come, fearing to leave
his family in Atlanta while the riots there
are going on. 1t Is regarded that the
meeting was in every way profitable to the
farmers and cotton raisers
The concensus Of opinion of the experts
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