The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-11
SENATOR COMER. WILL GIVE SUPPORT ID THE POLICIES OF
 PRESIDENT WILSON
New Senator Declares in Favor of Good Roads, De- velopment of Water ways, Prohibition and
 Democratic Ad-
 ministratiOn


 ton yesterday to take up his
 duties in the United States Sen-
 ate under appointment of Gov
 ernor Kilby, Former Governor
 Braxton Bragg Conner gave out
 statement, the first since his
 appointment last Friday in
 which he declares himself in
 favor of the development of the
 rivers and harbors and high
 ways, and says he will support
 President Wilson and his poli-
 cies.
 Senator Conner left yesterday after
 noon on the Frisco Central of Georgia Seminole Limited for MillhAven. Ga, where he will spend two or three days with his brother, leaving there in time to reach Washington by Monday morn ing. He expects to be sworn in and to take his seat Monday
 Senator Conner will serve until after the November election at which time a senator for the term expiring March 1, 1925, will be elected.
 Senator Corners statement follows: Tn accepting Governor Kilby's ap- pointment to the Senate, where I will try to fill the interval caused by Sena- tor Bankhead's death, it is my purpose to continue my life's work, i. e. a gov ernment of the people and that their rights and properties should be cared for.
 'T fully recognize the accomplish ments of senator Bankhead. which were wrought after many years of earnest hard work, and finished through those great principles of suc- cess, hold out. keep going on-gool roads. I shall at all times join with those who are trying to, further this interest.
 STATE WATERWAYS "The states waterways, particularly the Warrior, Alabama, and Tennessee, the port of Mobile should be thor oughly nationalized. In the largest sense their facilities belong to the people not sectional, but national; their use belongs to all and they should be developed, should be made ready; this is absolute because even if the use is not there it will come. God made the oceans before man made trade A'To reach Mobile bay is down grade from thousands of miles of territory be- sides that of Alabama It is mon- strosity that immense energies, costly energies should be used to haul across mountains to crowded ports, when it is | so easy down grade to the same pur- pose, a great harbor great port and equal with the others, reaching America, reaching the world 1 ''The Warrior river has mineral re- sources comparable to that of the upper waters of the Ohio and-- why should 1 they not have the same development Tho Tennessee carries more water than | the Ohio and Cumberland combined and apart from the great development now l being made at Muscle Shoals the pos : | sibilitv of usufruct sounding almos: | like the Alladin stories; I say apart l from this because from Knoxville t Cairo and from Cairo to the world l there are possibilities of commerce I which Alabamians, which Americans. I because the property alike belongs 10 1 all, should be developed, any restrain | ing influence should be removed PROHIBITION
 1 "Constitutional prohibition made 1 possible by the volstead bill needs no modification or changes. Any enlarge ment of it's F of 1 per cent alcohol is as President Wilson says about the pro- posed reservations to the peace treaty. | the League of Nations, making what | is called minor changes amounts to mild notification and that there is no difference between mild nullification l and nullifcation, and so would be the proposed changes to the Vorwartz bill No one but the whisky interests doubt l that the eighteenth amendment to the lconstitution is one of the greatest revo- 1 futions for good which has occurred in l this government of ours
 l ''The cotton exchanges, New York and New Orleans. are intended to be the exponent of the correct value of cotton; their use was intended to serve the convenience of business and never to govern or make the price of cotton This method of making the price of cotton can only be accomplished by a gambling cross purpose with the old law of supply and demand, and it is a gambling device to try to convince the people that the exchanges make the price of cotton and any law abettime the gambling interest in the handling | of this greatest of agricultural com | modities should be abated