The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-26
Alabama Reform School for Juvenile
 Negro Lawbreakers

Expenditures during the Conner ad . ministration, nothing.
 Expenditures during the ONeal ad- ministration. SIC, 0,a0750.
 "Comer administration, nothing.
 "O'Neal administration. 5000.
 "The total appropriations for pub lie schools, high schools and high in stitutions of learning. including the school for the deaf and blind for the last fiscal year of the Conner admin istration was S2,632 479.04.
 Tn this total was embraced s100,00O for the erection of a Conner hall at the Uni versity of Alabama and s56,5o0 for the erection of another Conner hall at the Ala bama Polytechnic institute.
 ''The total expenditure for the last fiscal year of this administration was $2,s72,- 1S4.S1.
 Pensions
 2 'It Is claimed that MT. Conner expended more for Confederate soldiers than any should be entitled to the support of the Confederate veterans and their friends. This statement is unfounded
 'The largest amount expended for Con- Conner administration was for the fiscal year 1910, amounting to $s57, ,s2s .95.
 "The amount expended for Confederate soldiers pensions during the last fiscal year of my administration was s936,s26. MT. Comer's Juggling With the Pen
 isOn Fund
 "The methods by which MT. Conner de- prived the Confederate veterans of three fourths of the pensions due them for the fiscal year ending September 90, 1907, has never been fully explained.
 'It furnishes one of the most interest ing chapters in the record of his adminis- tration.
 "When he entered upon the discharge of his duties the pensions due the Con federate soldiers, under the law as 1t then exinted, were payable in full on the first of October in each year. If the law had not been changed on the first of October, 1907, it would have been the duty of MT. Corners administration to have paid the Confederate soldiers on that date the entire amount due them for the fiscal year commencing October 1, 1908, and ending September 30, 1907, to-wit, $S63, ,37S92.
 "There was no law at that time pro- viding for quarterly payments. On the 9th day of March. 1907, MT. Conner secured the passage of a law now embraced in section 2o24 of the code, which required that monies appropriated in any manner for the relief of needy Confederate sol- diers and sailors CT their widows, or col- lected as special taxes for their benefit to be paid quarterly, vn the first of Oc- tober, January. April and July of each fiscal year.
 There was at the time large surplus in the treasury, and the payment of the full amount due the Confederate soldiers would have caused no embarrassment. As result of the passage of this law in stead of paying the needy Confederate soldiers and sailors the sum of $S63, ,378 .92. the full amount of their pensions. in one payment, they were only paid one-fourth of this amount on the first of October. 1907: thus withholding from them three fourths of their pensions and retaining the same in the treasury.
 "At the time this quarterly payment was made on the first of October. 1907, the entire amount of the pensions for the fiscal year commencing October 1. 1908. and ending September 90. 1907 had been collected and was deposited in the state treasury. and but for the change which Mir. Conner had secured would have been paid fin one payment to the Confed- crate soldiers
 When the next quarterly payment, un- der the Conner law. fell due, to-wit. Jan- uary 1. 1908. practically the entire pension