The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-09
WILKINSON HOPES MEASURE WILL PASS For Promotion of Agricultural
 and Industrial Arts COTTON STORED IN STATE w. H. Seymour Reports 71,615 Bales In Warehouses-Half as Many
 More May Be Held On
 the Farms.
COTTON STORED IN STATE

Montgomery, May S.-(Special)- )-Com- missioner of Agriculture J. A. Wilkinson, who is just back from Washington, hopes that in the end Congress will pass the Davis bill for the promotion of agricul- tural and industrial arts. He went there to go before the agricultural committee of the House. along with men of his calling from all sections of the country, and between them they succeeded in se- curing reversal of determination to ad- verse the measure.
 The bill provides for ten cents per capita for industrial education, one-half to industrial arts in the cities and one half to country schools for agriculture. This would give Alabamau about s2OOo00, one-haf, or $100, ,00O a year, to be applied to the promotion and study of agriculture in the country territory. Applied to the agricultural schools now in the state and to the high schools soon to be erected this would give Alabama the very best show of any southern state in this class of service.
 It is understood MT. Wilkinson says, that President Roosevelt and Secretary of Agriculture Wilson are very much in favor of the Davis bill. Certain it is that the latter is. The department of agri- culture at Washington is making every effort to see the bill pass, arguing that $2,0OO,0O0 a year to the promotion of so great line of study would mean great things to the people of the whole coun- try.
 Stored Cotton. 1 w. H. Seymour, statitician of the state deparement of agriculture, finds. | after much correspondence, that T 1,615 bales of cotton are stored in the 2O7 public warehouses of the state. This report for the time up to April 25. As the | department was not in existence a year l ago no figures can be had for comparison. 1 It is quite likely that there are half as many bales again in farm houses, which, 1 if so, would bring the total up to over 1 100000 bales of last and other crops held off the market. At ten cents a pound this would mean that $5.O0O,00O in values are thus tied up in the state.
 New Rail Line. The Alabaha Railway and Electric 1 company has been chartered by the state to run line of road from point near Anniston, in Calhoun county, to point near Dothan, in Houston county. The capital stock is s2OOOOO The papers were filed in Lee county. It will run through the counties of Calhoun, Clay, Talla- poosa, Chambers, Lee, Russell, Barbour Dale and Houston.
 Court House Fight. The fight for removal of the court i house of Russell county from Scale to Girard, took definite form Friday when 1 two delegations appeared before Gov. B B. Conner, one urging that it be moved l and the other that it be allowed to remain as it is. The Governor heard the testimony as to whether or not the ] desire for it was of such extent as to justify the naming of a commission to hold an election.
 The fight between these two places Is very strenuous, other places getting into the contest for one or the other places A hour of the time of the Governors was taken up this morning, hearing from th' following delegations:
 Seale-E. H. Glenn, B. dec. Waddell s. R. Boylxin, w. A. Bellamy, w.. Prather. F. M. Brown, w. H. Chadwick T. W. Perry and J. T. Perry
 Girard-C T. Clifford George c. Por ter. l. c. Brooks, L. F. Knowles, l. I Moses, J. H. Watson.
 After full hearing the Governor de nied the petition.
 More Schools Located.
 After consultation Friday morning th' high school locating board placed th' following high schools the figures being the value of property given by the towns Marengo county, Thomaston; Choetaw Butler $10,O00; Geneva, Hartford, $l5,00o Morsan, Hartse1le $l0000; Franklin, Rus sellville.
 The value of the Inducements given b, Columbia, located yesterday, was $15,00