The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-13
COUNTY BOARD
 MEMBERS NEAR
 SCRAP TUESDAY
Alteration Arises Over Proposed New Road.
 Challenge Given

Members of the board of revenue lost sight for a moment Tuesday of a re- quest for a new paved road, costing ap- proximately $1S,0O0, through the town of Warrior, in a verbal tilt participated ill by the varioIs members. After sev- eral minutes of discussion when charges of playing politics were made against one or more members and one motion after another was made, only to be lost when brought to a vote, the delegation from Warrior, consisting of 30 or more residents, headed by Dr. George c. Dobbs, pastor of the War rior Methodist church, withdrew with the assurance that the board members would favor their request when it is brought up again.
 Fight Threatened
 The controversy, which threatened at one time to end in a personal en- counter between Lacy Edmundson and T, E. Huey, followed a request by Dr. Dobbs, as spokesman for the delegation, that the board of revenue authorize i'm mediate paving of the one-mile road through Warrior. A motion to comply with the request was made by Mir. Edmundson and received a prompt sec ond from Jerry Gwinn. Before a for nal vote could be taken, w. B. Cope land interposed an objection to the plan and indicated that he would oppose the motion as made and seconded. He said the road was properly not a county, but state and federal project and the board of revenue had no authority to spend a part of the county's share of the peoples taxes in that way.
 MT. Huey then explained his vote
 1l.~ I l,1 favor of acceding to as many requests for new and better roads as the coun- ty could afford, but felt the time had come for the board of revenue to check up on its finances and cut down its expenditures as much as possible.
 Cannot Grant All
 II do not blame the gentlemen of this delegation for coming before the board with their request" he said, "and l wish it were possible for me to vote 10 grant it, but I have a duty to the people of the county as whole which I cannot disregard. Several delegations have appeared before the board from time to time for new roads, and it is impossible to grant all of them"
 Mir. Huey went OH to say that the S4,000,0O0 bond issue voted several years ago has been exhausted. He criticized what he termed a tendency on the part of member of the board to seek votes by making promises which could not be fulfilled and promising his support to projects which the rest of the board would not favor. Although his name was not mentioned specifi- cally, Mir. Edmundson regarded the re- marks as referring to himself and chal- lenged Mir. Huey to fight. The chal- lenge was accepted, but the matter ended when President D. c. Ball rapped for order. Jerry Gwinn took occasion to say at that point that he was not candidate for reelection and had no vote-getting purpose in voting for the motion.
 Peace Restored
 After the board resumed considera- tion of the original motion, Mir. Huey said he would be willing to vote for the road if he could first be assured that the county had enough money to finance the project. Ut does no good to ap- prove all kinds of requests without be- ing able to make good on our promises" !" he said.
 Several motions were introduced in rapid succession, only to fail of a sec ond or be lost when put to a vote. A motion was finally passed to ascertain whether the Warrior road was included in the state road program. Board mem- bers promised to vote for the road at county expense in case it should be found that the state highway depart ment did not intend to build it.