The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-17
ALABAMA SENATE MOSTLY FARMERS Glance Through List and See for Yourself SOME HAVE SIDE LINES Popularity of Agrarian Profession Shown by Way so Many Law
 makers Claim Kin
 to Soil
SOME HAVE SIDE LINES
By WALTER HARPER

Montgomery, March 16.-(Speciai.)- After gumshoeing around the halls of the Alabama legislature for almost one week I have discovered a number of things ] that may be of interest to the dear peo- pie back home.
 The legislator in full action is one of the most complex and intricate pieces of human machinery in existence. He Is | something like one of these celluloid dolls sold by newsboys on trains or fakirs on street coriers with marbles in their heads and vacancy in their bodies. q am | speaking of the dolls.) You lay one of these dolls down in any position 1t will | immediately stand on it's head. l legislator in action works with his ear to the ground His arm Is extended high in the air while in his hand he frantically waves a flag of truce I have made another important discov- cry. The people of Alabama seem to DC partial to farmers. No other profession appears to be represented in either house of the legislature.
 Some of the members, like Senator Morrow and Walker Percy. for instance. may have dabbed some in law as a mere pastime; they are farmers to all intents and purposes when they catch the dear people looking.
 There are seven real, practical farm CTS in the senate, but most of these have commercial entanglements that might greatly embarrass them should the line be drawn very closely.
 There Is Senator c. w. Brown of Jack son county one of the rich, strong men of the upper house. He made most of his money on the farm, 1t is said, and it is claimed that he has a good lot of the aforesaid money. He is also one of the best educated men in the legislature and has travelled extensively.
 Senator Espy lays claim to kinship with the soil by reason of his manufacture of fertilizer. For the same reason King Mccormick might claim to be farmer because he manufactures harvester ma chimes.
 Senator Lovelace is a lumber manu- facturer Of course he has cleared up great deal of tillable lands and put them in shape for cultivation No one can successfully charge that he> Is not farmer.
 Senator Miller is a farmer and bank CT, or at least that is the way he Is listed on the legislative payroll.
 Senator Nance and Senator Norman both lay claim to practical agrarian hon. ors and it Is said are able to get away with the goods among their constituents at home. Senator Rogers has also made most of his living on the farm.
 Senators Stokes and Walden complete the list of possible farmers in the senate.
 Fourteen men In the senate admit that they practice law as a sideline.
 One member of the senate, I. w. Flow man, has served a term in the Congress of the United States He Is not the on ly member, however, who has ambitious tendencies that way. This is one reason why there are so rnany farmers.
 w. T. Brown, one of the rich men of the senate, is a banker, merchant man. ufacturer, coal operator and farmer. He says he had rather haul up peavine hay than sit through long afternoon sessions of the senate.
 Senator Atkins of Selma is wholesale grocer. Of course he sells supplies 10 farmers and feels that he Is one of "us.'
 Senator Robert Moulthrop is put down as a capitalist, though he is proud of the fact that he was once a farmer. Ii Is easy to understand how he came to be capitalist.
 The only doctor in the senate is Dr. o. s. Justice of Wetumpka. He was reared on the farm. He still farms some for political and other reasons.
 Senator Walden of Uniontown one of the really-truly farmers of the senate, is also military man of no little dis tinction. He has just received appoint ment as quartermaster general in the state organization.
 It Is claimed that there is more wealth represented in the senate than for many years. AS a rule the senate is expected to represent the conservatism of the leg islature, but the rule has been reversed at this session. The senate furnished most of the fireworks and has put on most of the vaudeville stunts during the term.
 HICKMAN AND CRTTSE