The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-08
BIRMINGHAM WINS
sUB-TREAsURY TO BE LOCATED IN ALABAMA. s@

X e Congressman wiley, seeing That Magic City stood Fine Chance of Winning, Withdrew Mont gomery---Land Oniee Sticks.
 Washington, Jan. 7.--(Special. )--If a new sub-treasury is established In the South 1t will be at Birmingham in ac- cordance with the action of the eau GUS held this afternoon in the minor ity room of the House.s when the final vote was taken the Georgia men were not present. As stated ih these dispatches last night they had pulled out.
 A number of ballots were taken to decide where the sub-treasury should be located. Earlier in the day Colonel Wiley introduced in the House a bill providing that there should be located the Southern men at the. caucus de- cided with practical unanimlty that ft ought to be at Birmingham. Colonel Wiley decided to withdraw his meas ure.
 At the caucus the Alabama men vot. ed unanimously for Birmingham on all 1 of the ballots. six or more having been saw game between Alabama and Ten- nessee. The vote of the latter State was divided almost evenly between
 Memphis. Nashville and Chattanooga
 On every vote the A1ahamians went l solidly for Birmingham.
 The South Carolina and Florida men stuck generally for Columbia Finally
 when 1t became evident that Birming. ham had the call Congressman Lever of South Carolina arose and moved that Birmingham be unanimously se- lected as the place for the location of the proposed ub-treasury. The motion l was carried and the indications are that Birmingham has won. or course I the Secretary of the Treasuf# will | have to sanction the choice. bssf 1t Is thought he will accept thAaaeeiFaon of | the caucus. A The Georgia delegation. insIHtRa that | the caucus was not called swEfA any anthority. as Secretary Shaw AsAsd no ifight to refer the location of the sub I treasury to caucus.
 1 Representative Livingston and other Georgia members also said Secretary | Shaw had assured them that South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama were the only States which would have a voice In the location of the new branch of the Treasury. and before withdraw ing from the caucus. declared very hot
 1y that assurances given them by the
 Secretary of the Treasury had been
 violated by extending a vote to Ten-
 nessee and Florida.
 HundIey Up Tree. The Senate Judiciary Committee to- day appointed sub committee of three. consisting of Messrs. billing
 ham. Kittredge and Pettus to specially
 consider the nomination of Oscar R.
 Hundley to be United States Attorney fer the Northern District of Alabama. Senator Morgan has addressed letter
 to the full Committee in which he stoutly opposes the confirmation of Hundley.
 Senator Pettus. as previously men, tioned in this correspondence, has vlo-
 lently opposed the nomination of Mir
 Hundley. It Is also a well known fact
 that every member of the Alabama
 delegation in the House Is opposed to him, and at this writing it certainly looks as If trouble for the Presidents
 nominee Is worse than 1t was several
 days ago, when it was stated that the indications were his name would bo
 withdrawn by the Presiden. and some
 other man nominated for the import ant position.
 Mfr. Hundley's record on the school question when he was member of the
 Alabama Legislature is what seems to
 be making the trouble for him. That
 record has already been referred to at
 length In this correspondence. and it is
 learned has been placed in the hands
 of MT Clark of Wyoming, Chairman
 of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Land Ofice Remains. Efforts have been made to remove the Land office at Montgomery to
 Birmingham. Today. however. the Land Office Commissioner decided that 1t should remain where it is, aaai issued formally an order upon the subject to that effect. Representatives Wiley and
 Taylor have both been very active in their endeavors to thwart the move l ment and have succeeded fin keeping the office in the portion of the State in
 which their districts are located. MT. Bowie introduced in the House today the following:
 Resolved. by the Mouse of Repre- sentatives (the Senate concurring),
 That the statue of Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry, presented by the State of Ala
 bama, to be placed in Statuary Hall, be accepted In the name of the United States, and that the thanks of Con-
 gress be rendered to the Stae for con- tribution of the statue of one of It's
 most eminent citizens, illustrious for
 his distinguished civic service. Second.
 That a copy of these resolutions, suit ably engrossed and duly authenticated,
 be transmitted to the Governor of Alabama" Alfred J. Stofer.
 S WALL STREET BROK A