The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-18
FIGHT EIGHT HOURS AND FAIL ID REACH
 FINAL DECISION Removal of SynodicaI Woman's College Live Issue Be-
 fore Synod BOTH TALLADEGA AND ANNISTON REPRESENTED Speakers Present Claims of Both Cities and At Times Charges and Re-
 eriminatlons Became
 Very Bitter.

With both sides afraid to go to a vote and after word war of eight hours the Synod of Alabama of the Southern Pres byterian church adjourned last night at 12 o'clock with the location of the Ala bama Synodical College for Women still unsettled.
 Annston balanced all her power to re- move the college from it's present location, but Talladega appeared with more than dozen of her most prominent citizens, and new offers, while she brought for ward a moral issue which is her strong est argument.
 Beginning at o'clock yesterday after noon, except for short time for sup per, the synod continued the argument until midnight. It was then decided to appoint a committee consisting of an elder and a minister from each presby- tery to receive all bids for location of the college, and to report to the meeting of the synod in November in Mobile.
 Dr. A. A. Little of Selma presided over the meeting, and there was a quorum present consisting of ministers from all parts of the state. The Rev. Dr. Ander- son of Anniston presented the offer of his home town. He offered the Anniston Inn, for the sum of ssO,OOO; of this, s5OOO to be paid in cash and the balance in five years.
 The city also offered a subscription of SC GOO, of which $50O0 is to be paid down. S3000 by October and the remainder on time. Ee claimed that the Anniston Inn could not be put up for $1OOOOO, and that it could be put in repair for $9OOO
 He then proceeded to jump on a pam phlet issued by the Talladega people with both feet, claiming that it contained charges of immortality and attempted land fraud against ministers of the synod. He argued that Talladega had never done anything for the college, and at times his denunciation grew warm and spirited.
 Borden H. Burr of Talladega made the argument against removal. TAlladega offered a beautiful new site, worth $14- 600, free. He stated that they had a standing bid for the old building of ST. o00 and that he could get $2O GOO for it.
 He declared that with the $23,OOO which would be spent in Anniston added to this sale of the old property they could build a fine school, with all conveniences MT. Burr spared no time in describing the old inn. and it's disadvantages.
 However. Talladegas strongest argu- ment was in the fact that when, five years ago the synod accepted the college from the Talladega church, it pledged itself that if within 25 years 1t became necessary to sell the building it would devote the proceeds to the construction of another in or near Talladega. MT. Burr affirmed that this morally bound the synod to leave the college in his city, but his opponents thought they could return it to the church at any time they liked Other reasons for keeping the school in Talladega were that the An niston Inn is claimed to be fire trap, and that Talladega, out of dire neces- sity, would be forced to run a school for girls in competition with the one at An niston.
 Last night, when minister after min ister had expressed his opinion in many words Dr. J. G. Snedecor moved that a committee be appointed, the matter re- ferred and taken up at the regular No vember meeting in Mobile. This called forth a great fight, as many were op- posed to a delay. But it finally carried by a fWo-thirdS vote.