The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-01-14
REYNOLDS WILL
 INTRODUCE BILLS Will Ask for Large Amount of
 Legislation IS A FRIEND TO SCHOOLS Would Have the State Control the Whisky Trafflc-Believes in
 Better Roads and More
 Immigration.
IS A FRIEND TO SCHOOLS

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 Montgomery. January 1S.-(Special.)- State Senator H. E. Reynolds, of Bibb county, has a large amount of legisla- tion which he hopes to get though the present session. Much of it Is general in its scope but a great deal has to do with his own district He is great friend of the public schools and most of the things that the teachers of the state are now campaigning for and would also be found in line for state control of the whisky traffic. He believes in better roads and more immigration, and would see a strong contract labor law for the benefit of the farmers. He would also SC some changes in the back tax law and more personal safety vouch- safed to the coal miners of the state. In his opinion the fertilizer tax ought to be pledged to the benefit of the farmers and there are great many things about the road laws which he thinks could be better.
 Discussing the situation with the cor respondent of the paper, he said:
 I shall. of course, favor in a general way the policies laid down and advocated by the recent state democratic conven- ton. Especially is this true with re- gard to railroad Legislation I favor uni- form muicipla code law. I favor the fullest assistance to the common schools of the state. including encouragement and assistance to the building of suit able school houses. l favor the state being much more liberal to the remnant of n1d 10 of with us. l favor an act encouraging immigra- tion of the proper classes to our state. highly favor good road legislation. favor an act prohibiting spirituous, vinous or malt liquors being shipped from one county into another county where prohibition prevails. I favor To- cal option law allowing a vote on the question from time to time of whether the sale of whisky shall be discontinued in any particular county
 q expect to introduce the following bills:
 Better Public Roads.
 T. A bill to establish the department of public roads and highways and to ap- propriate suitable sum for the main tenance of said department ana to estab- fish the office of commissioner of roads and highways.
 '2 A bill to compell the examination and auditing of the books and offices of county officers either by the extending of the authority of the governor to this end or to provide special county exam hers of accounts. I refer herein to the accounts of such officers so far as the interests of the county Is concerned At present the commissioners of each county have the authority to have this done but they seldom exercise 1t and no doubt thousands of dollars are now [ duo t1,o a,.a1 iac Nf tot by various county officials and other persons which the counties under the present system and custom will never realize. My own county of Bibb has re- gently recovered several thousand dol lars by having this kind of an examina- ton made Often the officers miscon- strue the law or make honest mistakes as to the rights of the counties.
 "3. expect to introduce a bill to pro- vide for the escheat to the several coun- ties of such witness fees commissioners fees and other cots of court remaining in the hands of such officials as judges of probate, sheriffs, clerks of the circuit and city court and equity and county courts registers in chaneery and other officials which come into their hands as custodans by virtue of their offices, but which are not called for by the persons fees and other costs of court remaining months from the final determination of the causes in which said costs accure. Certain county officials in many counties or the state are known to have re- ceived and still to hold thousands of dollars of fees of this kind rightfully belonging to other persons but which have never been called for by the per sons entitled to them and which doubt less never will be called for. In the aggregate taking all the counties of the state amounts so saved to the several counties will be large. These escheats should go to the road fund of each county.
 "4 l expect to introduce vagrant law. copying almost exactly the Virginia vagrant law, which seems to me to be the best law of the kind which I can find on the statute books of any state in the south and better suited to our needs and conditions and to the character of people with which we have most largely to deal.
 Contract Labor Law