The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-11
SATISF ACTION HERE
 OVER SETTLEMENT
Drain on Coal Mined Here Will Be Relieved in
 Short Time


 While the Alabama coal mines are now and have been for two or three weeks operating on practically nor nal basis. the dispatches from Indian apolis, Ind. yesterday afternoon stat ing that the officials of the United Mine Workers had voted to accept President Wilson's proposition for a settlement of the strike was received with satisfaction here, both by oper- ators and miners.
 With he mines in all the coal fields of the United States running full time it will be only a few weeks at the out side until business conditions will be normal again.
 The production of coal in Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois. West Virginia and other eastern, cen-. ~tral west and western districts has been under 50 per cent of normal ever since the strike began on November l.. This has forced many industries to close down and necessitated the cur tailment of railroad traffic all over the country
 No direct effect on the industries of Birmingham has been felt, except that caused by the fuel regulations. but this district being called upon to supply larger territory than usual, made heavy drain on it's production, thereby reducing the amount of coal available for consumption here. Local stocks are running low and with the continued de- mands on the mines of this district it would be a question of only a short ! time until serious effects might be felt here.
 No information from Indianapolis, other than that contained in the press dispatches had been received by local operators or officials of the miners union last night and principally for that reason they had no comment to make on the developments at the h. diana capital
 which class of complaints must now needs be adjusted through correspond ence from Montgomery. "When Mir. Cooper and Mir. Gallard were engaged in their campaigns the slogan of MT. Cooper was Let Imperial Jefferson have a man on the Public Service Board Mr. Gaillards slogan was Our only Port. Mobile. must have a man in touch with her daily prob l lems.'
 Did E. B. Conner reside in Mont gomery during the two years he was president of the railroad commission? No, Die Charles Henderson? No Did i they neglect their duty? If so. the peo- l pie of Alabama had strange way of i showing their disapproval. 1 NESBITT'S PUNISHMENT
 Did w D. Nesbitt. campaign man. ager of Governor Kilby, neglect his duty during the four years he served on the railroad commission and lived in Birmingham? Evidently not, for Governor Kilby punished him with a 1 freshly created s6000 job i Colonel Shorter. who for years was president of this commission. did not live in Montgomery. Capt. James F. Crook, during his term as president, i lived in Jacksonville.
 "So. isn't it plain that the latest ] Live in Montgomery slogan is po litical?
 "The followers of the present gov ernor must be famished lot. The scores of new offices and jobs created by him have been thrown a the hun gry pack, but still they press with foaming jaws and empty bellies for more.
 Behold some more campaign thun- | deri The secretary of the mission eight years ago thought the commits sion should reside in Montgomery submit that what the secretary of the commission eight years ago thought Is not so nearly pertinent to the point at issue as what I thought and openly stated throughout the state when a candidate for the office I now hold viz: That the duties of the office I was seeking did not require the full time of any competent man Had not known this to be true I would never have sought the office. Gov ernor Kilby knows this to be true and admits it when he says the commits sion would have been abolished and its duties placed upon other state off cials without further compensation but for the fact that 1t was not officer out of office God save the mark, I charge that his assault upor the commission and his spleen and i'm tent. as registered in his lead spite bill,' had only this object in view.
 GOVERNOR QUOTED
 And again. some more of the gov ernor's campaign document:
 ""The celebrated compromise
 agreement between the state and
 the Louisville and Nashville rail- | road of which he was custodian.
 and in which many thousands of
 Alabama citizens had pecuniary
 interest has never seen the light 1 since it was signed.'
 Isn't that splendid? Compare 1t witt a paragraph from Henry P Merritt. campaign book of 1916:
 Mfr. Kennedy was secretary of the
 commission at the time of this so-
 called compromise-called, as he says,
 from private life-we would like to
 have him tell us what has become of
 the original agreement of the settle-
 ment that was signed by the railroad
 commission and the representatives 1 of the railroads and tell us whether or not the original agreement that
 was prepared and brought in by the
 railroads was modified in any respect,
 and if so. in what respect There l are many people in Alabama that
 would like to see this wonderful doc-
 ument.'
 ''Is there any similarity in these para graphs?
 "A copy of this agreement, approve, by the governor and the attorney gen eral, is in the files of this commission