The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-15
COMER WILL REVIEW
 STATES FINANCES
Intended That Money Should
 Return To People
COMMISSION WILL MEET
Railroad and Express Complaints WnI Be Heard Tomorrow-Flfteen Hun dred Oyster Shuckers Pass
 Through Montgomery.

Montgomery, October 14-(Special,)- Gov. B. B. Conner Is preparing an inter view in which he will discuss the condi- ton of the state treasury and the alleged possibilities of deficit at the end of the present fiscal year When asked about the reports he. said that it was anticipated that the money would be given back to the needs of the people and not kept in the treasury. He was entirely in accord with the acts of the legislature in making appropriations and felt that they were such as would be of vast good to the people as whole.
 Incident to the talk of a shortage of cash is the fact that while values have in some instances been raised, as whole there will be very little difference in the assessment values for this year over last. Jefferson county will show an increase of about s16OO0,O0O, s7,000,0o0 being raised by the county tax commissioner, $600 ,000 by the state commission and sS,000 900 by the tax assessor It Is estimated that there will be very little more than this in the whole state, If, in fact, the figures do not so drop in other counties as to eat up the Jefferson increase.
 The record of assessments for the past summer has not yet been made up. There was some delay in getting out the assessments of railroads. telegraphs and telephone companies. and this made the county abstracts late in getting in. How ever, it is anticipated by Brooks Smith, ai15 5Gf a1a arl- to he hot ira fafry days all these will be in and the reports for the fiscal year ending September 30 made up. Until all the returns are in and the full data gathered it will be impossi- ble to tell just how the account is going to stand out only with regard to the fu- ture but the past.
 Railroad Commission.
 A meeting of the state railroad commits sion has been called for Friday. October 16, at which time will be taken up the question of express rates on the Tombig- bee Valley railroad, and the question also of switching arrangements between the Louisville and Nashville and the Central of Georgia.
 Middleton Sanguine.
 J. 0. Middleton of Calera, nominee of the peoples party for Congress in the
  ans, has been trying to get his name on the ticket as a populist. The name was sent out peoples when 1t ought to have been populist, and now 1t cannot be changed, MT. Middleton says it will cost him 400 votes. He is confident that he can beat w. B. Craig, the democratic con- gressman.
 Presbytery Sessions.
 
 Presbytery Wednesday the question of erecting new churches and forming new church organizations was taken up. A new plant is to be put in at Duncan school house, near Alexander City. Sev- eral calls were also received. The Rev. J. M. w. Elder was ordered installed at Bethel, in Covington county, and F. G. Hartman at Andalusia.s The sermon of the Wednesday night session was Union Springs from the familiar text: Now Are We the Sons of God
 To Help Hold Cotton.
 At a meeting of the members of the farmers union, held at the courthouse Wednesday, it wss agreed to support the movement for a great assembly at Mem- phis in a few days to aid in the plans to hold cotton for better price. It was found that c. L. Gay, county president of the Cotton association, has secured col lection of s204 to aid the campaign which President Jordan of the Cotton associa- ton sNto make. MT. Jordan asked that MT. Gay raise s10O, but he went him over that much better. MT. Jordan tells MT. Gay that he is preparing to make the hardest fight yet to bring the price of the staple up.
 Fatal Fall From Wagon.
 Ambrose Hoffman, a lad, was killed near Wetumpka by a fall from a load of hay. He was brought to a local hos pital but was too badly hurt to be saved He was bruised and mashed internally.
 Fifteen Hundred Shuckers.
 The Western railway and the Louisville and Nashville railroad handled six trains of Italian oysters shuckers through here Tuesday night. They were going to the cove oyster plants of the Gulf and the southern waters and were handled as fol- low sections of the night train to New Or leans.
 Fine New Marble.
 Clay Rogers, a citizen of Talladega county, has sent marble paper weights to Attorney General A. M. Garber, one for MT. Gapber and one for Gov. B. B. Conner The sample ise fine looking marble which Mr. Rogers found on his place. The weights are worked down with a grindstone and show several colors in the workings. MT. Rogers Is a farmer and good citizen of Talladega county.