The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-30
RATE QUESTIONS UP ID COMMISSION Money Is Running Short In
 State Treasury ONLY S6O,OOO LEFT Bird Season Opens Monday and Quail Hunters Anticipate Good Sport. Mrs. Hattie Pope Appeals
 Her Case.

Montgomery, October 29.-(Special.)-
 At a meeting of the Alabama railroad commission next Monday the transporta-
 ton companies of the state will be asked
 to show cause why the rates on pressed and paving brick should not be the same as on common and fire brick. Under the
 Alabama rates schedules only common
 and fire are mentioned, hence the rail
 lines did not lower the old charges on
 the other two kinds. General complaint
 having arisen, an effort will be made,
 and no doubt come out with success, to
 have the rates the same, as the entire lot would seem to be adjustable along that line.
 The commission will have also case
 against the Frisco, in which it is called
 upon to show why 1t cannot better it's , passenger service between Sulligent and Birmingham. The commission has had
 some complaint just here and 1t is be- lieved that when all sides are presented there will be no trouble about reaching decision satisfactory to all. At the last meeting this road was ordered. along with others, to put in good depot facli-
  sippi line to Birmingham, through we'll developed mining and farming country.
 Money Running Short
 Money Is running short in the treasury and loan must be secured within a few days. Treasurer Seed said today that the last balance, today, showed s60 900, which will not be enough to carry things many Jou ryiI1 ho to meet the November expense account. The amount necessary, thinks the treasurer, will not be short of $5O,000. The governor. under the law. can borrow $3Oo,ooO and MT. Seed is informed that the matter will have the attention of the governor in due time.
 There is a belief that Treasurer Seed may be enjoined further on from using the fund collected for the old soldiers, and also the 3 mill tax for the schools for other than the purposes for which they are taken up from the people.
 Plenty of Birds.
 John H. Wallace, Jr, state game and fish commissioner, finds from reports made by his county wardens that there Is a large supply of quail, which may be shot for a season after Sunday. The birds are small, however, a result of the rains in May and June. MT. Wallace says he has urged great caution on the part of the wardens to prevent violations or the game and fish laws, and he Is inn pressed with the manner in which they are looking out for the interests of the state Two convictions for killing deer | out of season in Marengo county give him great pleasure.
 Oyster Board Ready. rr1-. tbo to far commission is reported to the state game and fish commissioner from the headQuar- ters in Mobile. John Craft, president of the Mobile Commercial club is president, with J. A. Joulian of Bayou La Batre as secretary. l.. Tossing has been chosen chief deputy to provide for patrollinS the beds A tax of cents @ barrel all oysters taken out and shipped is laid and collected, and there are a number
 of applicants for lease of water bottoms,
 among others being that of Capt. P. r. Alba, who desires 100 acres Commission CT Wallace is very much pleased with the outlook.
 Mrs. Pope's Appeal. A new chapter in the case of Mrs. Hat tie Pope of Chiffon county, sent up for life for the murder of her own mother,
 was made today when the papers in her
 appeal were filed with the clerk of the supreme court. They come from the cir cult court of Chiffon county and are a full history of the crime and the trial of the unfortunate woman whose life is to pay the price in service if not in death of the deed. save in case of reversal and better showing at another trial. Mrs.
 Pope is in jail at Clanton and will not see any one. She was kept here for long time and refused to see reporters or others or to talk of her case.
 Cotton Scars High. Fourteen and one-half cents a pound
 was paid for 300 bales of cotton on the streets here today, the highest in 35 years. 1t is said. The good figures brought out
 great deal more of the staple, and it is thought that the reports of the sales
 will clear the country of what is left right along.