The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-08
JUDGE WEAKLEY Is
 LEADING SPEAKER Before the SynodicaI Sunday
 School Convention CAREER MAKES RULING Superintendent of Education of Cal houn County Can Draw But Per
 Cent Instead of Per Cent,
 As Heretofore.
CAREER MAKES RULING

Montgomery, Mag 1.-(Speclal,)-Judge Samuel D. Weakley, former chief justice of Alabama, was a leading speaker be- fore the Synodieal Sunday School conven- tion of the Presbyterian church today, 1 taking the ground that the shorter cate chism is essential to the Christian educa- ton of the children of the church. The book was drafted by men 260 years ago and it's 107 questions are yet alive for the service they were set forth to do. Gov ernor Patton, many years ago, gave Bibles in his North Alabama Sunday school for committing the questions to memory, one Of which the spa Ter has and prizes very highly.
 The day was taken up in discussion of the institute work in the Sunday school. J. s. Bridges of Birmingham talked of the best methods of getting those into Sunday school who should be there. He is an expert, having in Birmingham prop i ably the largest Sunday school class in the south. The question of how to sus tain interest was taken up by the Rev. William Megginson, ana the duty of reach ! in the unsayed by the Rev. N. M. Woods. the new pastor of the Central Presby- terian church. Dr. c. A. Merrill of Wood lawn, Capt. J. L. Dean of Opelika and MT. Meggnson had much to say of the importance of supplemental work, empha- sizing the good that comes with careful selection along this line.
 In the afternoon Dr. A. l.. Phillips of Richmond led a discussion on the pri- mary work, talks being made by Miss T Io;. The question box was a feature of the night session.
 Garber Makes Ruling. By virtue of a ruling by Attorney Gen. eral A. M. Garber the Superintendent of Education of Calhoun county will no longer draw 6 per cent for disbursement of the county school fund but f. as do the other officers of his class. He had this right by virtue of an old law but it is held that the act is invalid on constitu- tional grounds
 The constitution provides, in both the old and the new, that only 1 per cent shall be paid for the disbursement of school funds, but allows the section to be set aside by affirmative declaration and a two-thirds vote of the legislature. There is nothing in the passage of the act to show that it was the intention of the legislature to set the act aside.
 Railroad Valuations.
 Secretary Kennedy of the railroad com mission is stacking up lot of work for somebody in the statistics of values he is sending out for just now. Each road will hn oil kinds on blank for that purpose. These are among the items to be valued Right of way and station grounds, real estate grading, tunnels, bridges, trestles and culverts, ties, track fastenngs, rails, frogs, switches and crossings, ballast, track laying, signal apparatus telegraph and telephone, stations, shops and round houses, tools, elevators, warehouses, docks, structures of any other kind, all sorts of equipment, movable and sta tionary, interest and charges of all kinds
 Minor Matters.
 w. D. Seed, state treasurer is prepar- ing an address to the state bankers on the workings of the new depositary act
 The board of pardons will hold a meet ing next Tuesday to take up a number of cases pending.
 J. A. Cary has been appointed delegate from the state to the conference for charities and corrections now in session at Richmond. He lives at Calera.
 Anniston Decision.
 Attorney General Garber today rendered an opinion on the political situation in Anniston, which determines where the voters of that city are to exercise their suffrage in the coming city primary on May II.
 March 12, this year, the ordinance of Anniston went in effect redistrcting the city or putting new boundaries for the wards, and the question arose as to whether voters should vote in the new wards if they had not changed their resi- dence for three months prior to the pri- mary next week, or if they should vote in the old ward which now bears a diff ferent number and name.
 The opinion was asked as an official guide for the registrars, who are to sit tomorrow and Saturday to register those who could not register by reason of dis ability or otherwise at the regular sitting of the board. It will also guide the voters in the election, and the opinion as .audorad bxr the attorney general holds