The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-26
MORE INTEREST IN SENATORIAL FIGHT Governor Johnston Has Been Down to Montgomery 
 NEW CAPITOL IDEA POPULAR Man Foreigners Are Being Brought Into the State to supplant
 Nesroes-other News of
 Montgomery.
NEW CAPITOL IDEA POPULAR
BY HERvEY ". LAIRD.

| at the capitol are wondering who next.
 Richard IL Clarke was expected but hard
 ly so soon, and with W. c. Fitts, makes
 two from Mobile. The other so far out is
 John B. Knox of Anniston, and it is ex- | pected that William c. Oates and Joseph 1 r. Johnston will let the state know what
 they have in mind before the middle of
 February
 Captain Johnston was here this week
 and saw few of the faithful who have
 always fought under his flag and got a
 number of expressions from these, besides
 leaning up against some who may not
 follow him to discover what they think
 about 1t anyway. There are a great many
 at the capitol who believe that Captain | Johnston will try to defeat Senator Asar- l gan, and they also hold yet to the impress
 sion that ex-Governor Oates will likely
 make the same kind of effort General Oates is in Henry county this week and
 has not been seen since Knox announced
 to get at what he intends to do. It is
 thought by some that with those named
 and Congressman John H. Bankhead, the
 list will be pretty nearly filled. However.
 it may be augmented by the ambition of I l Clayton of Barbour. Just now, however | Bankhead and Clayton have congressional
 fights on that keep them pretty well oc- 1 cupied.
 New Capital Popular.
 It is being shown by the talk of the peo- | pie that the proposition to build a new
 capitol at a cost of say, $1000,0o0. is meet | ing with approval. Several leading men l have said since the offering of the reso- l Inf hxr r,.ao Fo 7
 a new building at a cost of q, 300 900 that 1 they thought he was on the right track.
 It is we'll known that the state is greatly l in need of twice as much room as 1t now has and will have to have more soon, no
 matter how it Is provided.
 One of the members of the capitol com
 mission has this kind of an idea Use $25,- l 900 now to repair and fix up the old build l ing so that 1t may be used for the time l being. Then begin to set aside $200000 a | year as sinking fund. In three years | this will amount to $600O00. Then can be
 begun building to cost $10OO,000, for by l the time the structure had been advanced | to the point of using the S6O0O00 the other
 $20O,OO0 would be ready. In this way the l cost would not fall heavily any one year | and could be met from the treasury re- l ceipts without issuing bonds. Until that
 time the old building will be sufficient to l get along with
 Importing Labor. | There is a great demand in this terri | tory for labor and the officers of the l state have been trying to meet It. The | governor has done what he can to take l care of the situation and is doing more 1 every day. He ilas received lately large | number of letters asking help to secure l house servants. He can do nothing to help 1 here but does hope to get farm labor from 1 abroad to come in.
 The Tennessee Fertilizer company, how l ever, has begun to solve the labor prob lem in a practical way It has just se- l cured from New York fifty Italian la
 borers and the Virginia Carolina Chemical | company will have lot of them later
 on. It has been found impossible to get l the negroes to work regularly and com l petition has forced the manufacturing 1 concerns to get labor that can be de- 1 pended upon at all times. The Western Railway of Alabama has a number of | Italians at work on sections and yard l lines and has found them entirely sat isfactory.
 Several weeks ago one of the big lum- l Der mills in the state received a num- Der of Hungarians and has found that they do good work Others will be brought
 in later, they being attracted south by | the balmy climate.
 Wife VIII Fare Well. By action of Governor Jelks In remitting | a part of the fine and six months hard | labor assessed to Jake Woodall in El- 1 more county, and further understanding 1 among the officers of Fillmore county | the wife of Woodall has been cared for l better than she seemed to be before he | was arrested. It is agreed that if the 1 governor will remit, as he has done, 1 the wife is to get $25O and an additional l $500, in all s700
 | It appears that Woodall was arrested l on charge of vagrancy and convicted l August g, 1905, by the circuit court of | Elmore county He was fined $500 by the | jury, which was aware of the fact that | he had been failing to take care of his l family. The trial judge added six months l hard labor. It was seen that all of thls | would go to the fine and forfeiture fund | so the arrangement was as indicated so 1 that some help could come to the woman 1 who needed it. To get out of prison sen | tence 1t Is agreed that if half the fine | and the prison sentence is remitted the 1 wife will get s700 in all.
 l Of the action in the case, the Gov | ernor says:
 "This case was rather complicated | one. He was tried for vagrancy, though
 back, of it was a more serious charge 1 of assertion of wife and child. A jury | assessed a fine of $500 which under the ] law, goes to the county treasury. The l trial judge added a six months term of hard labor. The trial judge. the county so- l licitor and the assistant solicitor now ap- l pear and ask that the sentence of hard 1 labor and $250 of the fine be remitted l They show that following previous un- | derstanding with this office, that s250 in | cash has been deposited to the credit | of the dependent widow and her child, | and even some additional provision has been made for them. On this showing l Jake Woodall is pardoned from the sem l tence of hard labor and s250 O. ,ne $500 | fine assessed against him is hereby re- l mtted."
 1 New Corporations. | The following new corporations have
 been reported to the secretary of state: l Farmers Union Warehouse company. Albertville: capital. s500o; incorporators,
 J. I. Hughes and about one hundred | others.
 l Sheffield Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry l company, Sheffield; designating Sheffield | as the principal place of business and John Thomson as agent
 1 Bowdoin- Hagood Carriage company, Montgomery; capital, s10Ooo; incorporators, 1 w. H. and J. A. Bowdoin and w. L. Ha- | good.
 l Birmingham has the following list: | Cheek-Lively Loan and Investment com pany 5000; John V. Coe Lumber company, l obapoad fn Rfru1fn ha m .t.r,a har