The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-19
Would Place Sheriffs on
 Salary Basis.
HIGH FIGURES ARE NAMED
Author Gays $lo0,Ooo Received by
 Jefferson County Sheriff.
Gives Startling Amounts as Receipts In Four Counties During Six Years -Honman Questions
 His Statement.

By a vote of 45 to si. the House yes- terday afternoon killed the King ,p,il to place sheriffs. probate judges, tax assessors and collectors, aud clerks or court in the counties of Jefferson, Mont Eomery, Mobile and Dallas on salary basis. instead of a fee basis. as they now are.
 Mr, King of Jefferson. the author of the measure, made strong plea m support of it, giving some starting facts he had gIeaned, he said. rom the books and accounts of the state Convict Department, and the state Au. ditors office, of the enormous earn ings of the sheriff's office in the vari- eus counties.
 In Jefferson County, he said. dur ing the past six years, the sheriH's office has received as net earnings troh, the State of Alabama. not to mentton amounts paid the office from the Coun- ty Treasury, the enormous total ot sIoo,0oO. Tn Mobile County, he said' the net profits have been S44.sas m tne same length of time; in Montgomery County have been ssi,525. and in nal- las County they have been Si4,z0S
 MT. King made the Statement that the sheriff Is the only official in Mont- gomery County who would be aheetea by the bill, that being the only position of which the net earnings are larger than the salary proposed to ss aIiow- ed. The probate judgeship of this eoun- ty, he added. would not be affected. as be was informed from reliable source that that official cleared only $5,4O0 per ,annum over and above the cost Of his help, and the bill allowed him all he made up to $6,000.
 A,ects Jefferson County.
 Every officer named in the bill in Jefferson County would be affected by the measure, he declared. land say to you, he continued impressiyeiy, "andsI am weighing my words care- fully, that th,s bill will effect sav- ing of $K0,000 a year"
 The statements made by Mir, tne as to the net earnings of sherins m the four big counties to which the Dill would apply, were challenged by MT. Hoffman of Mobile, who asserted there was nothing on the books of the State departments referred to that would give the net proft of those officers tor feeding prisoners or for any other pur- pose,
 The bill was tabled on motion of Mfr. Pitts of Perry, whe pleaded for "a system that has been weighed and not found wanting in the conduct of the affairs of the State. After 1t had been tah.ed, it was effeetuailv killed by a successful motion to indefinitely post pone a motion to take, the measure from the table. T he vote on the motion to table was as follows; r
 A.ses-rA1tman. 4 eld, Avery Barton. Benners Benson. och. Butger. Cole man of Lowndes. eman of Marshall, Cranford, Crum, Doyle of Clarke, Dud- ley, Edwards Fuller, Goodwin, Henley, Hoffman. Hughston. Killen KornegaN Lacy of Dallas Lawson. Lyons, Ma ner. Mitchell, McCrory, McDuffie. Me- Milan, Norville, Oliver Parker, Peete, Pitts of Perry. Powell of Bullock, yell of Covington, Power Prica Pugh, Rainer, Sherrod. Tunstall, Vann, Williams--45. N r~iaG
 Nays-Ballard of Autauga. Ballard of Ike. Cannon. Carmichael of Colbert. Ca. michael of Clay, Foster. Glover Gunter, Haley, John. Johnson, Kings ,Lovelady Malone, Moore. Pearson. Ragsdale. Rattray. Rice, Rowe. Sam. ple, Sanders, Sanford, Scale, Smith of Franklin Steagall. Turner, Urquhart, ~,aver, White of Lamar, Woolf--S1.
 Absent and not vOting-Mr. Speaker,