The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-24
OFFICIALS |NTOWN TURN CITY INTO 4 POLITICAL CAPITAL Long List of Prominent Men in Birmingham
 Last Night O'NEAL WILL GO TO
 GADSDEN TONIGHT Chairman Henderson Says They May Have to Proceed Against the Railroads to Get Depot
 at Bessemer

Birmingham was the political capital of the state of Alabama yesterday and last night. State officials present were Governor ONeal and his private score tary, John D. McNeel James c. Oakley, president of the convict department; Reuben F. Kolb. commissioner of agricul- ture; Robert c. Brickell, attorney gen eral C. B. Smith, auditor; Cyrus B. Brown, secretary of state J. Lee Long, president of the tax commission and A. A. Evans. associate commissioner and Will T. Lloyd. chief clerk of the de- partment; II. Y. Willingham, superin- tendent of education: Charles Henderson, president of the railroad commission; Edgar B. Kay, consulting engineer of the state; J. B. Scully, adjutant general, and R. Tyler Goodwin, chairman of the executive committee of the democratic and conservative party of Alabama.
 Governor O'Neal is en route to Gads- den where he will be the principal speak CT at a banquet given by the business men of that place tonight. Captain Kolh and MT. Henderson will attend the same banquet. Auditor smith and superintend- ent of Education Wilingham left last night for Athens where they will locate A county high school today. Mr oak ley is interested in the investigation of the Sloss- Sheffield Coal and Iron com panys convict contract with the state which investigation will occur this morn- ing The members of the state tax com- mission are here, as stated elsewhere, for the assessment of the taxes of the county.
 Engineer Kay with MT. Henderson, of the railroad commission, went over the site for the proposed union station at Bessemer yesterday.
 The attorney general and the governors secretary came in advance of the chief executive. and during the day attended to details of propositions which the gov ernor will inquire into today.
 Today Governor O'Neal will consult with the Sloss people concerning their contract for the employment of state con- vcts. He will leave this afternoon for Gadsden Returning to Birmingham to- morrow. he will accompany the state high school locating board, of which he is a member, to Marshall county, where i've towns are making strenuous efforts 10 acquire the high school to which that county is entitled. From Marshall the party will retraoe its steps through Bir- mingham to Shelby county.
 In reference to the union depot at Bessemer. MT. Henderson said last night: We have given the railroads, the Louis vile and Nashville, the Southern, the Alabama Great Southern and the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic, instructions to build union station at Bessemer Today Engineer Kay and l went over the site, and he will begin at once on the plans. The railroads have not as yet compiled with the demands of the railroad com mission, and it may be necessary to pro- ceed against them.
 "On February the members of the board will go to Jasper for the purpose of taking testimony in the fight of the the Frisco in the construction of union station which has been ordered built at that place. This is an old case, and it is probable that it will finger in the courts for sometime yet"
 MT. Henderson is a candidate for re- election to the office of president of the railroad commission and he Is op- posed by Cyrus B. Brown, secretary of the state. who, as stated above, was also in the city last night.