The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-15
ALL WRITES ON
 SUBCOMMITTEE iscusses the Compensation
 Muddle HOULD RECEIVE PAY lember of Committee Offers Ex- planation of Order to Bank to Stop Payment of the
 Checks
HOULD RECEIVE PAY

Charles K. Hall. in a letter to The Age
 efald. goes into the details of the mud
 Q into which the members of the sub
 mmitfee have managed to get. The
 ter follows:
 Q the Editor of The Herald.
 IL is not my desire to go in the papers
 ,Ith a controversy, but the situation
 rought about by the actions of MT.
 rice, chairman of the subcommittee,
 ad the other four members of said com Aittee, is of intrest to the voters of Jef-
 crson county, and especially the candi-
 atts in our recent primary.
 First. there is the question of compen-
 ltion for members; second, the ques-
 on of instructing the Jefferson County
 aVings bank to hold the funds of the
 uh committee intact until further in-
 tilctions from the subcommittee.
 At the initial meeting of the sub-eom-
 4ttee I suggested the idea that our sub
 committee must keep an itemized account If all of it's Income and expenditures and that when our work was completed that we must make report to the county executive committee of same, and that u lUtit WtIt any tADtllSts lhtulleu ny the individual members of our commit tee. than in our report We would make al statement to that effect, and also that id any of the committee received any com pffsation, that it must be open and above board. and so stated in our report, and rlns. not ue received by improper or ir- rFgular' arrangements of our expense ac- doont At our initial meeting and from time to time, in fact up to 1130 a. m 1a.a nm lar
 net for the purpose of canvassing the
 dmns of the election and at which time
 Ve expected to submit our report, Mr.
 rice stated that he thought the com aittee shoud receive compensation for slnicos rendered. He stated to the com nlfttoc on several occasions that he was ifeurring expenses on account of duties aksi2ned him as a member of the sub- cf3Hmittee, and he also stated to me with ehlpiasis that he expected to get re- ireneration.
 | insisted all along, the other three flfths Of the committee concurring, that if We received any compensation it must bs stated in our expense account and submitted to the county committee. At our meeting Saturday morning at II 0 clock preceding the county committee meeting at l2 o'clock. the report was submitted and was adopted by the sub committee. This report contained a state ment of time lost by members of the subcommittee from their business, ex- l'fhses incurred by them in performing the duties of the committee and win be submitted 10 the county committee for Its consideration.
 l desire to state emphatcally that the report to the effect that the sub-commit- tee had, or has any intentions to vote themselves pay for services rendered. or contend for same. is erroneous and in- tended to msnform. as the report of the subcommittee will show when il iS made public My idea of this question is that this subcommittee was serving the can didates who were bearing the expenses of the primary, the same as any employe would be serving an employer, and 1 do no; believe that there Is an employer in Jefferson county who would employ man without expecting to pay him for his services. q think every one will agree with me in this.) And even though there Is I am sure they would not expect em- ployes 10 incur expenses while serving them to be borne by the employe and with tts idea in mind I discussed this ques- tion with a big majority Of the cand- dates, who expressed themselves over their signatures 10 the effect that in their opinions we should be compensated for our services and expenses incurred. In fati all candidates having the oppor- turty so expressed themselves. some of then going SO far as 10 say that if we did not have sufficient funds reasonably 10 pay ourselves for this service. that they would gladly stand another assess ment for that purpose.
 have thought all along. and think new, that this committee should be hon. cstlN, reasonably and without secrecy, raid for it's services. Even though 1t docs establish precedent, it will be one that in my opinion will be very