The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-18
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| two men will be paid by the government
and the state appropriation may, there
| fore, be utilized for the compensation Of
other men to help out in the work.
This arrangement will carry with Ii the
| provision that the United States govern
| ment will print all the reports and litho-
! graph all the maps of the surveys which
will be made In Alabama by this com
bnaton arrangement. The result will be
| that the state will be able to utilize the
graduates of it's own agricultural schools,
thereby securing not only their services,
but giving to them and through them to
many others valuable education that is
| needed by the Alabama boys. A feature
of the work will be that after surveys
are made the experts Will follow up with
the lectures in the various beats of the
counties, indicating to the farmers which
lands are best suited for this or that
product.
Mr. Wilkinson hopes to encourage the
manufacture of tobacco as one result of
! this movement. 1t has been developed
that the red prairie soil will raise tobacco
wrappers as good as that produced in
| Cuba, and that with a careful listing of
lands in the black belt 1t will be possible
| to assign here and there the communities
best suited to this product In his opin-
| ion it will not be many years before that
section of the country will be raising not
only high class of tobacco, but a great
deal of it. 1t is expected that with this
plan, the state can be surveyed in four
to six years. without the state aid, it
would probably take twenty years.
Juvenile Court Bill.
The judiciary committee of the house
has reported favorably the juvenile court
will which was presented some days ago.
| This law provides that children under
| IA years of age who are accused of crime
| will not be brought into open court and
tried for their offenses, but that the court
| officers and the parents of the accused
will get together and in case it is neces-
| sary to inflict punishment 1t will be done
in such way that 1t will not bring the
child in contact with the vicious class
usually found among the criminals
Another important bill is that to increase
the salaries of the judges of the supreme
!. court from $4,000 Il : 900 a year This bill
was reported favorably by the judiciary
committee, and it is thought from the
tenor of the members of both houses
that 1t will have little difficulty in be-
coming law.
Still another bill which will be of in
terest to a great many cases, reported
faVorably from the same committee is
that which will allow boards of revenue
to build court houses at places other
than county seats, for the purpose of
holding local courts.
Pell City Court.
The question of double court houses
for st. Clair county is already up in
the house and will be fought through to
a finish at the present session. Several
bills have been introduced. providing for
a court house and court at Pell City and
it is expected that they will be enacted
into law This question was fought out
in the supreme court some time ago
BY an ordinance of the new constitu-
ton. Pell City was allowed a court and
a court house was begun at a great deal
of expense. The supreme court, however
decided that the constitutional conven-
ton had no right to legislate, as this
was regarded and held that the provision
was beyond the power of the convention
AS consequence the people of Pell City
lost out and since that time have been
forced to go to Ashvlle for all their local
| business.
It is a matter of interest that this
question may again he tried in the SUI
preme court of the state. The decision
referred to was reached by a divided
court, the majority having barely enough
to carry it through. Among the dis
senters was Justice, now Chief Justice
John r, Tyson. and as he had two men
with him. 1t is regarded as possible for
the court to reverse itself. How Justice
Mcclellan might look at the matter would
decide the holding of the court in case
the question is again fought out. Lfti-
cation which will involve the same situa-
ton is now before the court. having been
presented today and lawyers are watch
ing the outcome with a great deal OF
interest. McLane Tilton, young lawyer
of Pell City, has had the fight on his
hands from the beginning and though
he lost in the supreme court before he
has not given up hope of winning out
after ALL