The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-10
OF ROAD AMENDMENT
 IS ID BE ASKED
Hope to Avoid Interference With Port Improvement and River Transportation
 Legislation
By FRED n. GORMLEY
 Montgomery Bureau The Ass-Hsrsld
 22I-2 First National Bank Buiidlr

-~ FHSt Neuondi bank Building
 Montgomery, September 9-(special) )-in' order that there may be no interference with the constitutional amendments for the improvement of the port of Mobile and the granting to Jefferson county of the right to improve the transportation facilities of the Warrior river the leeis-
 ature will be asked at it's special session ito postpone the amendment giving the various counties the right to levy a tax up to 50 cents on the hundred dollars for the construction and improvement Of lateral roads.
 rms announcement was made this aft- erpoon by Fred H. Gormley. who had peeh made director of the campaign byl the Aiaoama Highway Improvement As sociatlon, and who had completed pre- tinihary plans for the campaign. The decision was made after a conferencel With various persons who have been in- terested in the improvement of public roads, including w.. s. Keller. state' highway engineer, members of the state hlgnWay commission and persons promi-I nentIy connected with the carnpaign in february, which resulted in the issuanceI of $2o,00O,OO0 in highway improvement bonds.
 F. J. Cramton, president of the Ala oama Highway Improvement Associa- uon' telegraphed from Roxbury. Vt where he IS on vacation, that he was| heartily in favor of the postponement Al plll IS now being drawn postponing thel submission of the amendment until 1922
 The official statement of the caru-l paign director with reference to the' postponement follows:
 Conditions are still unsettled and thel ior, that this is not the time to submit tha3 amendment. Two years from now tnsj people will understand how important! local aid is. and we believe will be anx-] lous to ratify the amendment. It is pro- posed to use funds obtained from local taxation in constructing ana improvingI lateral roads connecting with the high! ways which will be constructed by thel state and federal government
 By the time another general electionI is held the plan for the construction orI trunk roads will be in operation andI roads will be in course of constructionI in all sections of the state. Mere reali-I zation of the value of these trunk roadsI will cause a great majority of the citi-I zens to call for the construction of lat-| eral roads connecting all sections and| settlements with the trunk roads.
 It has not been the desire of the| iliSii"dy improvement ASSOCldtlOn to lu-N terfere with the other amendments which means much to the people of all sections of Alabama. Instead, it has theI desire to assist in every way possible. In view of the fact that the Mobile portE and Warrior river amendments contaill , no provision whatever for the levying ot { any tax against any class of property. it is feared that some persons may con- fuse the local road tax amendment with the other Tharefnrer " ttsJy lieve it is to the best interests of Ala Fl bama to request the legislature to enaeft legislation postponing the local TORN amendment until November, 1922"
 Governor Kilby was consulted before1 the decision was made and agreed with the conclusion of the Highway Improve ment- Association.