The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-17
JONES HAS HELD
 OUTLAW ACT VOID
Has Passed on the Question
 Twice
SCHOOL BOARDS TO MEET
Trustees of District Agricultural Schools Will Meet In Montgomery. April 5-Already Working On
 Montgomery State Fair.

Montgomery, February 6.-(Special.) The effort to overthrow the outlaw" act, by which the state revokes the IT, cense of any foreign corporation that removes case from state to a fed eral court, calls to mind the fact that Judge Thomas G. Jones of the United States court has already declared the of which is in the court of appeals, as a part of the litigation of the railroads against the state. growing out of the laws passed at the last legislature.
 This act had it's first and only illus tration in Alabama when it became a club to beat the Southern Railway into the adoption of the state rates shorty after the legislature adjourned. A case in the court of Talladega was re- moved and Secretary of State Frank N. Julian at once marked the license of the company revoked" It was at the time sensational, but after several days of conference between officials of the road and Gov. B. B. Conner. the au- thority was re-established and the mat ter allowed to blow over. In the mean time, however, the state had won it's point to have the new rates put in.
 The bill was presented by Senator Lusk, now a member of the railroad commission.
 Farm School Boards.
 The boards of trustees of the nine district agricultural schools will meet in Montgomery April D and 6. The call Is issued by Secretary Feagin on the request of the governor. Under the law the members of the board of each school is made up of the governor, the state superintendent of education and the commissioner of agriculture, with two local men. Thus a majority of each board is at the capitol, and removed from all local pressure oao way or the other.
 Schools of the first five districts will meet the second day the latter four coming in the day following. The meet ing is for the transaction of the worK of the year, appoint and elect new teachers and receive reports on the work done and in contemplation. The heads of the institutions will have to report that the annual meeting of the a agricultural association at Auburn was perhaps the most important and useful ever held It will also be reported that as a whole the progress of the work has been more than usually marked this year.
 Milwaukee Business Men.
 Montgomery will entertain S5 business men of Milwaukee on a trip through the south on next Friday, when they come. headed by Mayor Rose, on a special train They will have band of 25 pieces. President F. s. Ball of the Commer- cial club, is in receipt of a notice that ha tu n a lot of Mont gomery.
 Monument for Veterans.
 Montgomery people in all sections of the country will be glad to know that Camp Lomax United Confederate Vet erans, is preparing to erect a monument to the dead that have been members of the organization. A full list of those who have gone away will be cut on the slab At a meeting Thursday the camp will to discuss the question of the location of the Battle Abbey of the south, with view to beginning a movement to have the abbey erected here if Richmond does not come across in good shape
 For Big State Fair.
 President Robert J. Chambers of the Montgomery State Fair, is getting down to work this soon for the big show of next fall. He needs $10iO00 to take up but is asking for $15,000 in order to have a working margin. We are going to have the best fair ever held in the state" said MT. Chambers. There will be plenty of fine stock, good racing and a better line of exhibits than was ever secured. l have the assurance that the money will be given and that the fair will be made a thorough Success. am asking the citizens to help me and they are doing so with will"
 Billy Fort Goes Back Home.
 William E. Fort, private secretary to the governor, has gone to Birmingham, from whence he came to serve the state over two years ago. and will spend a week or so shaking hands with those who have loved him these many years. He has been there only two half days since he came to Montgomery to work. He thinks there is no place like Bir- mingham, even though Montgomery is dear to his heart and his idea is to stay there long enough to catch up with the trend of events and renew his youth In the flowing waters of it's push and Just here, it may be said as a statement of fact, not editorially, that few men are more popular in the state than this same Billy Fort.
 Julian to Louisville.
 Nf Y and ex-officio insurance commissioner, has gone to Louisville, Ky to examine the Citizens Life Insurance company. He only recently completed an examina- ton of the Protective Life of Brming- ham, the policy of the department be- ing to. make thorough investiga tion of every company doing business in the state Actuary s. H. Wolf of New York will meet MT. Julian in the Kentucky 
 For Taxicabs.
 Leonard Shirley of New York has come to Montgomery to put in a taxicab line if ne can make arrangements with the city as regards license. He. was induced to pay visit to the city by [sadore Veil who was much impressed with the taxicab while in New York Dsition and will give -.lr Shirley an answer in a few days.
 Crying Boy Sent Away.
 Judge William H. Thomas has sent Allen Crenshaw, a motherless boy of l2 to the East Lake reformatory. The boy cried all the time after he was or dered sent away begging to be re- leased. The youngster could not be by his father, who said he wanted him sent up. Of the reforma- tory Judge Thomas said: q have no hesitation in sending a boy to that school. for I havoc had practical dem onstration of it's good work