The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-23
FLOOD, OF REQUESTS
THEY POUNCE IN ON ATTORNEY
 GENERAL CAREER.
Haa About Decided Him to Connne His Work strictly to the
 Statutory Duties of the 0face.

It is with the Attorney General now as always. Bubble. bubble. toll ana trouble.
 And most of 1t seems to be the Mu- nicipaI Code. Some call 1t the Unl- form Charter Act. It was passed ny the last Legislature and whatever lLs name, anything Is proper WnIcn car
 ries the idea of complexity and length
 But Attorney General Alex M. Gar. Der has about decided to smut on all work that does not come wltnln ms statutory line of duty. The actual gu. ties of his office, he asserts, are very much greater than have devolved upon that job in aIl its history. He ae- ciares that outside matters, those lttle fayors he would like the best An the world to perform, he will in future nave to drop.
 The people, however, will require
 some time yet to get used to this cut ting or of communication win .h,ae e nerniexfnR came up in most any part
 of Alabama that smacked of a pupiic character, a letter was then on to me lAttorney.eeneral. A Would he please anEwer the following questions2 (Here would follow a string of questions that would take just six hours or the
 ofElcer's fim6l ....... To attend 10 LhlS hOou VI would mean and has meant the slde- trackine of the actual duties imposed by law upon the Attorney-General Matters of State age pressing Tor tne fattentifon of Colonel Garber. He cah- moi afeord to lose time to tnterpret duizzical features ofs the Code or Ala baIaa and, solve the jokers thereof.. The Municipal code-and those Who realIze, it do not reflect on the friends | tanAvaf,thor of the measure--is now, be- I einning to be a source of much trouble. Everyone realizes. and realized when tha law was being drafted and passed, | that the first essay to make uniform the charters of Alabama municipaItles | that 1t would be a most dimcuit task They saw, too, far ahead that the op- I eration would not be smooth. Tnlngs r,irht be overlooked in the multitude | of nrovisions which make up the Mu- 1 incina1 Code. Many details of city rovernment would have to be inferred with the exercise of reason and dis- ] cretion.
 for an interpretation of big chunk | of the Municipal Code. This was not | many days past. The questions, If answered at all satisfactorily, would have taken up a half day of the Attor- | ney -Generars time. The situation vaa explained courteously, to the cor
 respondent by Colonel Garber' Tne | second day a reply came that Tor ln, Si~nation and wounded pride would have done credit to President Roose-
 welt under charge of asking for cam naion contributions. The Attorney Eeneral this fellow thought, was 1 public servant. and no matter what the statute said about his duties. ne | ought to respond whenever a taxpayer l demands his services. ......
 During Fair week. the Attorney
 General has received several calls iron
 new Mayors and city officers of sur
 rounding towns elected under the Uni
 form Charter act; Sept Sept .;nc. si; Int It ait, sf,
 o,ant,ons were held. They don't know Sow to start off. They just asked fol
 a few pointers on the subject; cGlohe .n ne. | enatr vanked out of his case law
 hook and told all he knew on thF
 spot, .oon a,
 nossible by the Governor was laid aside for the day.