The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-12
Bilbro Denies Motion for
Change of Venue
INSANITY is HIS PLEA
Plan on Foot to Have Alabama CITY
PostOffice Sub Station for Gads-
den-Perfect Plans for the
Country Club

6adSden, September n.-fSpecial. .)-Af
denying the motion for a change of venue.
Judge J. A. Biloro in the city court of
Gadsden this afternoon began the trial of
Dave Tarvin. who is charged with Grim
inal assault upon 7-year-old Nettie Wal
drop. Attorneys Owens and I.usk are
basing their fight for the defense on the
plea of insanity, and witnesses are be-
ing introduced to show that Tarvin is in
sane. During the hearing of the motion
Tor a change of venue this morning Net
tie Waldrop. with her father, was in the
court room, as was the father of Taryin.
plansis on foot to have the Alabama
City postoffice made a substation for the
Gadsden office. In this way 1t is be-
lieved that better service will be secured
at Alabama City.
A meeting will be held at the Cham
Der of Commerce tonight to perfect plans
for the organization of country club.
A site on Lookout mountain near Nocca-
lulu Falls meets with much favor among
the promoters of the plan.
Articles of Incorporation for a build
ing and loan company being prepared
to be filed soon
Maurice Swift and Miss Nancy Whor-
ton were married this morning at the
home of the BRIDES mother, Mrs. j. w.
Whorton, on Forest avenue. Dr. j G.
Dickinson of the First baptist church
performed the ceremony.
At a meeting of the BOARD of directors
"a ha 11,ap Nf LII
ernoon plan for a commission form of
government in the chamber was con-
sidered
Information was received here today
that an agent for the Dwight Cotton
Mills at Alabama City soon will be named.
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tence as he did when he stated that all
important legislation at first is tentative
1t cannot be perfect when first passed !.
must be improved after experience has
shown whereia improvement can be Sc
cured, and that the science of legislation
is the science of compromise.
The Bill Is a Compromise
The currency bill now before Congress
represents a philosophy which Speaker
Cannon co1npacted into this brief sem
tence. 1t was a very difficult work, for
the committee of banking and currency of
which Mr.. Glass is chairman, to lay the
foundations upon which to build a bank
ing and currency measure There were
all sorts Of views. Some of them were
very amateurish, but they were held by
men woh were of no little political influ-
enee. Bankers themselves did not agree
about what should be the important fea-
lures of the new banking and currency
measure. There were some republicans
in Congress who did not differ greatly
with some of tho democratic opinions re-
specting the features of the banking and
currency bill. There were, on the Other
hand, republicans or semi-republicans and
democrats. who represented some the
radical and some the conservative ele-
ment In their party, who differed in toto
But If there was to be banking and cur
rency legislation ii was vital that the
Dill to be so written as to embody views
almost all of them representing compro-
| mises, whicn could obtain the support of
| the majority of the members. Further
more, II was recognized by this commit
tee that the American bankers would be
justified in expressing their own views;
| and reasonable criticism of any tentative
measure.
Slowly, bit by bit, the bill has been writ
ten and as a whole it represents the fun
damental principle of all legislation of
1t was exactly this spirit of compro-
mise which Salmon p. Chase recognized
when he, as Secretary of the Treasury
In Lineoln's administration, recommended
legislation which would give the country
a national banking and currency system.
Some of the compromises he accepted
were, in his opinion, dangerously near
violation of the constitution and were for
that reason criticized by one of his col
leagues in President Iincolns cabinet
Secretary Gideon Welles.
Mr.. Frank is convinced that the Amer
lean people as a whole will give cordial
support to any banking and currency
measure which Congress may adopt
They will do that In the expectation that
If after a test of the efficacy of the new
law it should appear that II is faulty in
some respects, this can be corrected by
subsequent legislation.
An Era of Prosperity
One of the reasons why the people are
now not only ready but anxious for a
law is to be found in their belief that
an era of prosperity the magnitude Of
which dims the imagination.
The people realize that the United
States has in the past 10 years changed
from an almost exclusively agricultural
The stupendous statistics recently pub
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