The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-28
THRASH OUT PLAN ID EXTEND BIRMINGHAM Meet at Commercial Club To-
 day at 10 O'clock WILL GO OVER KING BILL Kings Measure Proposes to Take In Everything From East Lake to
 EnsIey and WyIam-Is
 Effective In 1909.
WILL GO OVER KING BILL

The Great Birmingham bill which Jere c. King, member of the Jefferson coun- ty delegation to the legislature, will in- troduce at the July session is stirring up considerable interest, especially In that territory which it proposes to bring into Birmingham. A meeting of the mayors and citizens of the different municipali- ties will be held in the Commercial club rooms, Birmingham, this morning at 10 o'clock.
 The bill has been subjected to consider able comment and meetings have been held in several of the diffirent municpali ties, where the matter has been dis cussed from all sides, and while there are many oppose he bill MT. King Is of the opinion that very large ma jority of the citizens of these municipali ties are in favor of a Greater Birming ham.
 A meeting was held in the opera house at Ensley last night by the citizens of that municipality and several speeches were made in regard to the bill While Ensley appears to be the hardest knot to tie in the rope up which Birming hams extended limits are trying to climb, 1t is believed by Mr King that the ma jority of the people there are in favor of the plan proposed in the bill.
 Under the proposed bill the towns to be annexed are to be treated with abso- lute fairness. They are to be allowed to issue the full amount of bonds to which they are entitled for the construction ot school houses and for other public im- provements, which bonds are to be as- stunned by the Greater Birmingham. The meeting this morning is for the purpose of discussing the bill and deciding on the plan most satisfactory to everyone. There will be speeches from representa- tives from the different districts, and the subject will also be open for discus sion to all those present.
 The bill will not go into effect until 1909 which will give the different munich palities plenty of time in which to issue the bonds to which they are entitled, and full protection Is to be given to those towns owning their public utilities and an amicable arrangement. will be arrived at As the bill will go into effect in 1909 Birmingham will be ready for the cen sus of 1910.
 The meeting this morning will not be for the purpose of determining whether the bill shall be introduced, but to arrive at the plan which will be satisfactory to the majority of the people in the diff ferent municipalities. as the members of the legislature from Jefferson county who have gotten up this bill have determined that it shall be introduced at the July session.
 Under the proposed limits the territory outside of Birmingham will have a larger representation in the Board of Alderman q than inside, there are only 55,O00 people in Birmingham, while there are 10000 in the territory to be annexed.
 The territory covered by this bill ex- tends from East Lake to Ensley. With in the past few days 1t has been decided | to extend the original plans so as to take | in Wylam and also a little more of the East Lake territory. The bill as first outlined proposed to take in East Lake at the present city limits of that muni- cpality, but as there are several thousand people living just outside of these limits it was thought best to include them in | the territory to be annexed. | A large attendance is expected at the meeting this morning.