The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09
Proposed Line Will Extend from Gainesville to Chattanooga
TWO ROUTES SURVEYED
Bill Has Been Filed In the chancery Court of Hamilton County to Test the Legality of Laws to Levy
 Taxes For Schools.


 interest of the proposed Chattanooga, Rome and Gainesville railroad which is to extend from Gainesville to Rome and then by way of Dalton to Chatta- nooga. The distance between Gaines vile and Rome is about 80 miles, and from Rome to Chattanooga Is about the same distance. Thus. if completed the road would be approximately 160 miles in length. Colonel Willingham said he had met with greater encouragement than he had expected from several of the leading capitalists and business men of Chattanooga. Continuing, he said:
 I've have already had two routes be- tween Rome and Gainesville surveyed. and a corps of civil engineers is now within a dozen miles of Gainesville on the third route. Options and rights of way are now being secured along the line. One day next week, probably Thursday, citizens from Rome and Gainesville will hold a meeting in Can ton with the people of that immediate section, when ways and means of pro- noting the road will be considered. All
  veyed the people are giving abundant evidence of their desire to have the road built, because it would give them splendid railway service It will cross the Southern, Western and Atlantic, and the Louisville and Nashville rail- roads, and at the crossings would have connection with them. Now we want to run it on to Chattanooga, and this would give us a fine exit for the north. One of the latest features of interest is the proposition to make 1t an electric line entirely and run 1t on to the north by way of Dalton, I understand the people of that city will aid the proposition in every possible way"
 Asked if this proposition was in any way connected with the Rome and Northern railroad, which is now being built by the Peters interests, Colonel Willingham said 1t was not. "The Rome and North ern," he said, will probably come up to Summerville or Lafayette, and then go over to Dalton, cutting into the rich iron ore deposits. The Chattanooga, Rome and Gainesville railroad will open up what is undoubt- edly one of the riche est timber, ore and marble sections of the world, in addi- ton to developing some of the finest water powers to be found anywh ere. What the south needs today is a great CT number of roads running across it from east to west. This road will give Chattanooga and Rome manufacturers jobbers and wholesalers an avenue right into Atlanta's territory, for of that city"
 Legality of Tax Laws.
 A chancery bill has been filed in this city which has tendency to cast a doubt on the legality of certain bills passed by the last session of the 1egis- lature empowering counties to levy taxes for the building of school houses and for other educational purposes The bill was filed by John H. Allen and Walter Hampton, both heavy tax pay CTS of Hamilton county, and seeks an injunction restraining the financial agent of the county from selling s150,- 900 worth of bonds, the funds to be used in enlarging the school facilities of Hamilton county. Messrs. Allen and Hampton bring the bill in behalf of themselves and all other tax payers of the county, a county existing under the laws of Tennessee and Seth M. Walker county judge and financial agent of said county. The document tells how the general assembly, at its last session, passed an act to authorize the county to issue and sell bonds to an amount not exceeding s150O0O. to run for a period of not more than 20 years, this sum to be divided between grammar and high schools. The com plainants claim that this act Is illegal, and quote liberally from the documents filed by the Chicago company which bid on the bonds and afterward re- fused to take them on account of what was alleged by their attorneys as their illegality
 The complainants urge that they get their authority for asking for the in- junction from chapter Fl, acts of 1909 which they claim clearly makes such an act unconstitutional. It is alleged in the first clause that schools are 8 part of the state and as such are prop erly provided for in the statutes. The ownership of school buildings by tho eounties and the erection. furnishing Snd equipping of such buildings by 2 /county for county purposes violate! I the constitution of the state.
 ! It Is alleged that the act of 190' 7 is unconstitutional, and that the county board of education elected thereundel by the county court of Hamilton coun ty has no legal existence, and on thii ground 1t is asserted that the act O. 1909 is invalid.
 The Holy Rollers.
 Public feeling against the so-callet Holy Rollers, originators of a weirt brand of religion, has reached such ( height in East Chattanooga, where tn, band is now holding forth, as to re quire an armed guard to insure tn, safety of the Rev. Henegar Trim, tn, leader and originator of the faith loaded rifles by two of Trims follow ~ the past three days has he been ordered to leave the community and the las visitation of the citizens was accom- panied by a threat of personal vio lence which was met with a show O loaded rifles by two of Trims follow CTS with whom he has staying at thu time As a result the men who wer Instrumental in organizing the mol secured warrants for Claude and Ran dolph Mullins, charging them with as sault with gun.
 Rev. Trim appealed to the sherif for protection. but that official decline to interfere unless he was presente with a petition signed by number o respectable residents of the suburbs This petition was drawn up. but 1t ha not been numerous1y signed. and wa not presented to the sherin, who sal he was ready to protect Trim iron