The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-02
NO PROVISION ID PAY WITNESSES
 FOR ATTENDANCE Attorney General Advises That Certificates Be Given
 ByCommisSioner GIVES OPINION ON
 IMMIGRATION BILL Monroe, Three-Year-old Son of Mir. and Mrs. j. M. Harrison, Is Crushed
 to Death Under an
 Electric Car.

Montgomery, May 1.-tspecial.l l-rhough the act providing for an investigation of an alleged fertilizer trust by recess 1 committee of the senate and house stip- ulates that witnesses must attend, there is no provision to pay for such attend ance. This is the ruling of Attorney Gen eral Garber in an opinion given the gov ernor. MT Garber holds that the best thing to do is to have the witnesses given certificates of attendance and l travel and get an act of the legislature appropriating pay for it.
 The attorney general has also ruled that the whisky license from the dispensary in Eufaula goes to the Eufaula schools in exactly the same way as provided in ] the old law regulating the sale by sa- looms.
 | In a ruling on the new immigration law Attorney General Garber has held 1 that foreigners must be brought into the state in line with the act if they are from foreign countries. though this does not apply in cases where the immigrants are from other states or are naturalzed 1 citizens of the United States. However I he holds that people cannot be brought to this country, kept at some place for a short while and then brought in save in line with the act.
 Immigration Opinion. 1 The opinion in the immigration bill fol- | lows. addressed to Governor Conner: 1 In response to your letter of April 9, |
 to construction of section of an act to establish an immigration board for the ! state of Alabama, etc, approved March 4 1907, page 254 printed pamphlet of the
 general laws, l beg to submit the fol- l lowing:
 Section reads as follows: Be it l further enacted, that it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or cor poratior. to bring or cause to be brought | into the state of Alabama any immi- | grants from any foreign country in any other way than through the department of immigra ton board, and any such per son, firm. association or corporation who shall violate the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less
 than $1OO0n
 The question embodied in the letter of
 the Southern Colonizing company to MT. w. B. Davidson of Montgomery, enclosed l in your letter to me, is as follows: Docs 1t (sectlon 9 mean that any per son or firm who may own land in the state of Alabama cannot bring into the state and put upon their own property any people they may see fit to bring into l the state, whether from other parts of | the United States or from any foreign l country. without obtaining the consent of 1 the immigration board?"
 l It is to be observed that section g. in l clear and specific terms defines the class of immigrants which shall not be brought | into the state of Alabama except through the immigration board. The words used 1 in the statute are: "* to bring cause to be brought into the state of Alabama any immigrants from any for l eign country in any other way than 1 through the department of the immigra- l ton board" The language employed Is | unmistakable and it clearly prohibits any ! person. firm or corporation from bringing into the state foreign immigrants unless l it i5 done through the state board. On 1 the other hand, the language employed in | this statute cannot. in my opinion be so 
 other parts of the United States within the inhibition of the statute. neither would foreign-born persons. who have be- come rat-ralized citizens of this country in other states, fall within the prohibl- ton of this statute. Therefore. residents of other states and foreign born persons, who have become naturallzed citizens of this country in other states, may be brought into this state other than through the immigration board What is stated above answers the ques- tio1 raised in the letter addressed to you by MT. M. V. Richards land and indus trial agent of the Southern Railway com pany, of date March 1. 1907, and which letter you referred to me for my opinion
 All that l have stated in this opinion concerning foreign immigration must be considered in the light of the acts of Congress regulating immigration, which acts are construed in two opinions of the attorney general of the United States to the President. dated, respectively, March 6, 19J7, and March 20, 19O7
 Child Is Killed.
 Monroe Harrison, the 3-year-old son and only child of MT. and Mrs James NJ. Harrison of No. 21s North Perry street, was this morning at 9:45 o'clock run over by Riverside car of the Montgomery Traction company, directly in front of the | which it died forty minutes later. The car was being operated by Motorman B. s. Poole and Conductor Sam G. Wood. both of whom were arrested, pending trial this afternoon.
 The accident. which makes one of the most grewsome tragedies of the year. from all accounts, was absolutely beyond the power of the car employees to prevent. Resulting from the accident, the father, who is one of Montgomery's best known citizens, is prostrated with grief, and the mother. whose sole companionship of the day was her child is striken with mysteries and quite seriously i'll.
 Monroe. it is supposed, was gathering few pieces of ice from an ice wagon. which was standing almost in front of his residence, and perfectly oblivious to all danger that might be around he stepped from the steps of the vehicle to the car tracks, where he was immediately caught under the wheels of the ear and crushed to death.
 Examiners Report.
 A number of public examiners reports have been given out at the governor s office and the last one to be filed was on the officials of Lowndes county who were found correct. This examination was made by Assistant Examiner II. Y. Brooke
 The reports showed the following to lo dua tba stata ,innn the comnIetfon of