The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06
PEOPLE DIVIDED
 ON BOND ELECTION
Representative Fite of Tus- calOOsa Believes Bond Issue
 Election Will Be Close

Representative Fred Fite of Tuscaloosa county, author of the ant-tipping bill,
 passed by the recent legislature. was reg istered at the Florence yesterday. MT. Fite is we'll posted on the coming bond issue and talks interestingly about the probable outcome of the issue.
 "Whether or not the Alabama bond is- sue for s1,00o,0O0 will be voted for by the people of this state is problematical."
 said Mr. Fite. 'If it does not carry the state will undoubtedly be put in a very embarrassing predicament. At the present time, and with the expenditures that are necessary for the running of the business of the state, and the deficit which was on Governor Henderson's hands when he came into office, it is almost essential to the welfare of the state the bond issue carry. As to whether or not the people will vote for it, cannot say. but in my opinion many of the people, more than | anyone thinks, are against the proposed bond issue, and they will undoubtedly
 make hard fight against it in the conn
 ing election.
 There seems to be a lot of people of the opinion that the state is run on an extravagant basis. Some of the citizens believe that the expenses of the state should be cut down considerably and a number of offices abolished This may be true, but as yet no one has been able to definitely determine whether or not some of these offices should be done away with. In the rural districts. believe the bond issue will be defeated
 q noticed in today's Age-Herald that Governor Henderson did not take kindly to the proposed plan of Senator Lusk on the short time interest bearing warrants, nor did he apparently care to call the legislature in session again. This means that the governor has made up his mind to carry the bond issue before the people for their decision. It is evident that the state is hard up and must have money from some source, but as to the proposi- ton of the people understanding this and eonsentng to raise the money by voting for the bond issue, no one is able to judge There will undoubtedly be canvass made of the state for and against the issue and the campaign promises to bring up some interesting facts in regard to the expen- ditures of the state.
 At the recent meeting of the 1egisla- ture Governor Henderson was given the right to borrow $300,000. At the present time this amount is not nearly enough to take care of the indebtedness and run ming expenses of the state and the relief sought is supposed to be ample to take care of these matters
 Tn the event the bond issue does not carry, it will be blow to the education of the state, according to the opinion of those who favor the bond issue. The law requires a certain amount of the money that goes into the state treasury to be put aside for the education of the children of the state. At this time there is no
 money in the treasury for this purpose and the children and teachers may have 1 to suffer. There are many arguments pro and con in regard to the bond issue, and in my opinion. all these arguments will be ably presented to the people before they are asked to vote on the issue" Asked whether or not any more prohibit tion legislation would be urged in the event of an extraordinary session, Mir Fite said: q do not know, but imagine they will convene for the purpose of giv- 1 ing their time to the issue at hand not to anything else. The present prohibition laws are excellent and it wolud be hard | to improve on them.