The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-31
Something Must Be Done In
 Very Few Days
EXTRA SESSION lALI
Some Are of the Opinion That the Legislature Will Be Called To- sether Next sprins-covernor
 Leaves for Dale County.
BY HERvEY W. LAIRD.

Montgomery, October 30.-(Special)-
 With present lack of funds in the treas
 ury that extends to the point of making
 it imperative to secure d loan to meet
 the November bills. and the authority to
 borrow only $SOOOo0. with prospective ! deficit of nearly $10Oo,OO there is a great
 deal of speculation as to how Gov. B.
 B. Conner will meet the situation and tide
 things over to the next regular session
 of the legislature. Within the next few
 days the announcement of a loan of $50,-
 GOO will be made, but that will do no more
 than take care of the demands of the coming month. Governor Conner would not discuss the matter before he left here yesterday to go to Dale county. and just
 what he intends to do is yet a matter of his own counsel.
 Treasurer Seed is also playing the game
 of shut mouth. He expresses confidence
 in the ability of the Governor to meet
 the emergency when the strong box is so empty as to make a resounding noise, but shows no more tendency to take the pub 1 lie into his inner knowledge just here than the executive himself. MT. Seed, who has foreseen the failure of bank ac- | count for some months, is laying low who has foreseen failure of the bank ac- ton taken to meet the demands of the pay rolls before many more days As
 matter of fact, there is surprlse at any effort at secrecy, for the Governor has not hesitated to admit all along that the
 money would run out soon, nor to assert that he would take care of the difficulty | when 1t became acute.
 May Run Higher.
 An examination of the books indicates | that between now and the time the taxes | begin to gather in force next January l there will be a deficit of not far less than l s1 100000 Only $500 900 be borrowed
 under the law, but there Is a hope that | this will suffice with the law passed at the last extra session consolidating the various funds in the treasury so that as long as there is money all can be paid. However there are many who believe that the treasurer may be estopped from paying in this way even if the law was passed There is a belief that school taxes. collected as such, must be paid to schools, and that soldier taxes, collected as such cannot be paid to other causes than the old soldiers. In other words. many hold to the theory that neither of
 these funds can be legally used for pur- poses other than for what they were col- l lected.
 ] If complications were to arise, and some
 think that there may. it might be neces- | sary for the Governor to call the legisia- 1 ture together again. Financial legislation
 was religiously avoided at the last as-
 sembly. but since that time there have I been many to intimate that there might | be another term. In fact, Capt Jack 1 Cranford of Walker county said during
 the last few days of the August meeting that 1t had been intimated to him that
 they might be called back In the spring. This talk could be important only in the l event that there could be no other means of tiding over the difficulty. And the Governor assures every man that dis cusses 1t with him that he will take
 care of it. and the general belief is that he will find a way