The age-herald., 1898-11-17
SENATE

Montgomery, November 16.-(Special-)- | The retiring president of the senate or Ala bama the Hon. Francis L. Pettus, of Dal- 1 las, called the upper house of the general | assembly to order at 10:30 this morning. After prayer, MT. Pettus announced that 1 the regular order was the election of the president, the secretary, and the subordi- nate officers of the senate. The senator from Jefferson, Hon. R. M l Cunningham, was thereupon unanimously l elected president, there not being single | opposing vote.
 1 President Cunningham immediately ad- vanced to the rostrum, and on the steps | he was met by MT. Pettus The two-the retiring president and the incoming one l warmly grasped hands. MT. Pettus said: l Senators, I have the honor to present | to you the president of the senate of Ala bama, MT. Cunningham, the senator from l Jefferson county"
 There was applause form every senatorial 1 seat, and from the galleries. That ap- | plause was spontaneous. There could not | have been any pre-arrangemnt It was 1 earnest and prolonged, and the retiring 1 president and he who had come to take his place stood side by side, each heroes of l the hour, for all that greeting from senate 1 and gallery was meant for Frank Pettus l well as for his distinguished successor, | the senator from Jefferson. 1 It was a pleasant scene, an inspiring l one.
 l Arm-in-Arm l Two of the younger men of Alabama poli- 1 tics faced the senate arm-in-arm, the one | going out of his office, the other coming l into that same office. The two personal l two-thirds of the senate which had chosen | in order two members of that body to pre- | side over and direct it's proceedings. l Frank Pettus goes out of his own chos- | ing. He is a possible successor to his i!- l lustrious father, United States Senator Ed | md xuhn tor avn ip l 1902.
 ] President Cunningham-there is no good l in guessing at the political future of a man who, at the age of 43 represents in the sem | ate the greatest of all Alabama counties | and Is the president of that body of law 1 makers. He will one day be governor, 1 United States senator-what he likes. He l is almost the most luminous figure in Ala l bama politics today. The promise of the | soon-coming years must must be to him ] glorious, intensely practical man though he be.
 John Proctor's reelection to the secre- l taryship of the senate will give great sat- -isfaction to the democratic party through out the state. John Proctor is good dem- ocrat, and he Is one of the members of the | state democratic executive committee who | never shirked or neglected his duty. Others | were absent-some of them never have ap- peared at any meeting of the committee | since they were chosen in April last-but John Proctor has answered every call, at material expense to himself. Proctor is one | of the ablest, brightest and most persist ent and insistent of the younger democrats of Alabama.
 Dugald Frank Mccall The other officers of the senate my be known by reference to The Age-Herald of | this date; but special reference is due Du- | that Frank Mccall has won. Mccall is a Montgomery Journal. There isn't a man now in Montgomery who does not feel glad hot rlr .-ll r.. good party man. He is one of the most scholarly and accomplished men on the Alabama press. Personally, he is one of the most genial and agreeable men one could meet in three days journey. Trying physical infirmaties have not soured or de- stroyed the sweetness and light of his in- nate temperment; and in selecting him as it's enrolling and expressing clerk the sen ate of Alabama honors itself. For eighteen years Frank Mccall, who is an honored alumnus of the State university has been leading light in Alabama politics and journalism. He was a Cleveland elector in 1884, and in the joint session of the two houses of congress Senator Hoar one of the clerks of that famous session. wrung his peculiar resonance upon the name of Francis Dugald Mccall" To Wait on the Governor After the formal election of the officers. the senate received committee from the mouse, which was commissioned to say that
  the speaker had appointed a committee to act with a similar committee of the senate In notifying the governor that the general assembly of Alabama was organized and awaiting any message which the governor might see fit to communicate. The committee on the part of the senate was named by President Cunningham to be Senators Thompson and Stevens These Joined the house committee and the joint committee waited upon the governor
 The governor received the joint commit- tee with marked courtesy, and directed his secretary, Hon. Chappeil Cory, to answer for him to the general assembly.
 Secretary Cory appeared at the door of the house. and the doorkeeper cried aloud:
 ''Mr. Speaker, a message from the gov ernor in writing."
 '.Let the messenger advance" directed the speaker.
 ernor of Alabama to deliver to you a mes- sage in writing,' said Secretary Cory
 "The message is received" said the speaker.
 The same ceremony took place in the senate, and the reading of the message proceeded.
 The senate ordered 200 copies printed for the use of the senate.
 First Bill Introduced
 Thereupon the senatorial districts were called for the introduction of bills. The first bill introduced was called out by the senator from Calhoun. MT. Abercrombie who was elected in August last superin- tendent of education of Alabama. In eff feet this bill No. of the senate was to incorporate the Anniston Normal Industrial and Theological college. Senator Aber- crombie introduced three other bills.
 Senator Nunnalee, of Dallas, introduced a bill to authorize the county commission CTS of Dallas to buy the bridge over the Alabama river at Selma.
 The only bill of state interest in the sem ate was that introduced by Senator Jones Moore, of Bibb, prohibiting any emigration agent to pursue his work in Alabama with l out a license, and making the fee for such license $2.0O0.
 The senate committee on rules was an- l
 
 (Conttnued on EiRhth PaRe1