The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-29
COMMISSION WILL HAVE BUSY WEEK ON THREE BOND ISSUES Some Will Speak and Others Will Work Silently for Victories MANY MEETINGS
 ALREADY PLANNED Supreme Court Decision Will Prob
 ably Come Up for Formal
 Action at the Meeting Tomorrow
By RICHARD F. LUssIER

| Every commissioner will actively enter | in the various bond issue campaigns this week.
 l Tonight in Avondale park at o'clock
 the speakers of the Municipal Ownership
 league, headed by Commissioner Arlie
 Barber, will hold meeting. Other speak,
 CTS than MT. Barber at Avondale will be Isadore Shapiro and R. DuPont Thompson.
 Tomorrow night Commissioner James Weatherly will take the speaking burden for the municipal electric bonds in a
 meeting at the Ensley Eiks' hall. Other speakers besides MT. Weatherly in Ems | ley will be the Rev. Dr. MoDougall and Dr, Byron Dozier.
 Mayor Commissioner George B. Ward l is the only member of the city commis- sion that will not appear before the people this week as an orator. However, MT. Ward has been selected by his eel leagues to supervise the campaigns for the three bond issues, and this the presi- dent of the city commission is doing very effectively. It falls on MT. Wards shoul- ders to see that literature is supplied. and incidentally he is the man that o Ks all the bills. If Commissioner Bar Der wants a permit to speak on the street, the Honorable George issues it; If Com- | missioner Weatherly wants to hold d meeting at night in East Birmingham to attack the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company, and he discovers he needs some lights, up comes MT Ward
 with an earnest request for the Birming- ham Railway, Light and Power company to put up an extension and supply lights for MT Weatherly. In other words Com-
 missioner Ward IS the chief generalissmo
 behind the scenes, and while the fervid
 oratory is going on he is planning for the next meetings. Commissioner Ward has already stated that he will vote for all three of the bond issues
 Commissioner J. R. Truss, tha silent member of the commission, who Is also very modest orator in that he seldom mounts the rostrum to make speech, has been inoculated with the progressive spirit pervading the city commission dur ing the present bond campaigns, and will leap into the oratorical arena next Fri day night with a speech at East Lake park favoring the construction of mu- nicipal electric light plant As MT. Truss is an expert engineer and was elected to the board on his representation that the people needed a trained engineer on the city commission his speech favoring the $5OO,OO electric light bonds, will nave especial significance.
 As for Commissioner Hornady he is oc- cupied with only one campaign, and that is for the $2,0O0,O00 school bonds. MT, Hornady plans all morning on his next days programme, and then speaks RI various places all afternoon and night. Other than the campaigns for the bond issues this week it is not likely that the city commission will take up other than routine matters Tomorrow's meeting is expected and will likely prove very profunctory affair, and the only topic of any interest is anticipated to be the supreme court decision knocking out the | liauor inspection ordinance. The commits sion will then discuss ways anl means of meeting the deficit eccasioned by the loss of revenue through the abolishment of liquor inspections, and the matter of refunding the fees already collected Will be taken up, when the petition of MT, Afford is presented. On this matter the commission has already announced that it had no intention of refunding any of ] the fees collected, as the liquor inspection law was a law until the supreme court stated that it was unconstitutional.
 According to the stars-and other re-
 liable authorities-a busy week is predict ed for the "commish'