The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-04
PLAYED
 BY ASSOCIATION
 FOR TAKING FUND
Transfer Of Conservation Money Chased As 'Un-
 moral And Dishonest

Calling attention to prediction promises to the association and to the various actions said to be repudiating these promises, members of the Ala bama Fishermen and Hunters asso- citation Thursday evening passed a res olution scoring Gov. William W. Bran don for recent acts construed by the association as being directly against their policies. The resolution demands that committee be appointed to in- terview Governor Brandon with the in- tention of pointing out to him that his course, regarding the funds in the con- servatiOn department is one of breach of faith.
 'Unmoral, dishonest. and unfair to the state to levy tax upon the sports men of the state and then convert the money to other uses than bettering con ditions and enforcing the conservation laws" is the description given by the association members to Governor Bran don's policy.
 By rushing the conservation bill through the legislature during the clos ing meeting of it's last session, the members were told, Governor Brandon succeeded in having an amendment passed that provides for automatically taking surplus funds from the con- servatiOn department and placing them in the general fund at the close of each year. This course, it was pointed out, takes money from the conserva- tion department that is badly needed for cultural ponds and law enforce ment.
 Revenue Board Touched
 FNbn Unffopcnr hnon6 nf nue also was the subject of much dis cussion at the meeting because of the long delay in finishing the road between Birmingham and the associations prop erty on the Warrior river. Although not condemning the board for the de- lay, members of the association asked that a committee be appointed to ask the board of revenue ''to stop listening to soothing reports of those who have the matter in charge, but to give us the action and road that can be traversed by something other than. an airplane."
 Nine months already have been passed in improving the road, it was stated, and little progress has been made. W. c. Oliver, president of the association, declared that at one place, the board of revenue is paying q man for pulling automobiles from the hole in the road, This man. he said, also is hauling slate for the county, and dumping it within 100 yards of the hole, whereas, if it were dumped in the hole itself, the road easily could be made pasSable.
 Reports that aid from the federal government in stopping the pollution of the Warrior river by oil barges had been promised were made by President Oliver. Two representatives of the United States bureau of fisheries, Wednesday, made thorough investiga- tion of the situation, he declared, and, although not making formal state ment regarding their findings, they promised aid in stopping the pollu- ton.
 To Name Committee
 A committee will be appointed by the president of the association in in vestigate the pollution. of Shades creek and Cahaba river by coal wash ing machines as a result of action taken at the meeting. This committee, it was decided, will make no move toward having the wash water not turLed into the streams, but will make a thorough investigation of the harm that is be- ing done by these washers and the per sons responsible for it.
 It also was ordered at the meeting that the president name a committee to decide on an opening date for the association's properties on the Warrior river and to arrange for an appropriate celebration on that date.
 An invitation was extended to mem bers of the association to attend a meeting Tuesday evening at helAthletic club, when Maj. Lucien Brown will give talk on fly-casting in the gym nasium of fha cluh