The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-15
MONTGOMERY WILL HAVE BARGE LINES Goes After River TranSporta-
 tion In Practical Way THE LIQUOR FIGHT IS ON Supreme Court Will Be Asked To Re- trace It's Steps in Locker Club
 Decisions-Fght Is Led By
 Judge S. D. WeakIey.
THE LIQUOR FIGHT IS ON

Montgomery, July 14.-(Special. )-Mont-
 gomery is moving to the development of
 the Alabama river in a way far more to
 the point than has ever been tried. A
 company is to be formed to put on a line
 of barges, to be handled by a tug, thus
 reducing the cost of transportation to a
 minimum. It Is figured that the six
 harges and the tug, all new, will cost
 s3o,ooO and that 1t will be possible to operate them at an expense of s4o00 a month. Each one of the barges will | carry almost as much as a boat, so that
 the margin of profit will be large. Failure on the part of packet lines
 comes from the great cost of mainten-
 ance. High priced men are employed
 and many of them, so that the expenses
 are far out of proportion to the returns | Another trouble has been delay In load
 ing and unloading With a tug 1t is pro- 1 posed to bring two barges and take | away two losing no time. Tn the mean 1 time these will be unloaded and loaded
 by contract. thus making it possible to
 get in many more trips in month than
 with a packet. At the same time there
 will be a saving of labor, for no deck | 1 up and down the stream.
 A company with a capital of $10o,0OO
 is being formed the stock going with
 great ease. One man, H. F. Vandiver
 head of the vandiver Grocery company,
 Is down for $10,00O.
 Fight for Liquor Control. l With the application for rehearing in | the locker club case, the fight to save | this feature of the liquor situation to the | prohibitionists Is on in earnest. It is felt 1 that if this feature cannot be supported
 the liquor laws are going to be hard to
 enforce. In this case the court holds
 that liquors are property and may be owned and kept where the owner pleases. | Thus the law of the city of Bessemer 1 that 1t must not be stored in soft drink | places is annulled. The prohibitionists
 feel that this must be met, and the first i act Is to ask the supreme court to take 1 itself back little
 | The fight Is lead by former Chief Jus l tce s. D. Weakley. who is the attorney | for the law and order league In a brief l he argues that while liquors are prop | erty the courts never intended that they | should be stored and owned in such re- | lation as to be a menace to enforcement | of the laws on the books. The effect of | the decision will be on. however, as the l certificate Is not recalled.
 | Convict Sees Mother.
 ! That he might go see his mother die, | Gov. B. B. Conner has cut off the last | four days of the sentence of Sam Bos- | we'll sent up for three years In 1907, from
 Bullock county, for manslaughter. His l mother Is old and dying with a fatal ail- l ment, and cries for her son. The gov ernor therefore, lets him out when he l had four days only of his short term to | serve. He has made model prisoner | The conduct of the prisoner Is reported 1 to have been excellent.
 1 TunstaII in City.
 l Col A. M Tunstall. a member of the | legislature from Hale county, and attor-
 ney for the Southern railway In Alabama, | is here, and his presence causes talk, as | he is known to have been on the other l side from the administration on most | everything made a subject of legislation. i He admits an interest in the session | soon to be held. but says he has noth l ing up his sleeve other than desire to see the time made as short as possible. | He does not see any good reason for re- | maining here more than four weeks at | the outside.