The age-herald., 1898-12-15
STORMY SESSION
 OF THE HOUSE Resolutions Sent to the Clerk in Ea6-
 less Number. COMMITTEES DURING RECESS
Vas the Objebt of Attack by tho
 nChO0S0 PareFS.p
ONLY ONE WAS AUTHORIZED
General Revenue Bill Will Be Consid- cred During the Holidays Thanks to Lieut.. Hobson = Schools
 Not to be Investigated.

Montgomery, December H.-(Special)- This mornings session of the house was stormy one from the beginning. Few bills were considered, but resolutions were sent to the clerk in endless number. This is the last working day of the present session, and numbers of members had the usual last day pet scheme.
 The economists, or ''cheese-payer as they most frequently called, were in full attendance today, and the object of attack was the appointment of special com mttees to sit during the recess. There was but one to run the gantlet, that to con- sider the general revenue bill.
 A resolution by MT. Mitchell raising this committee to consist of five members was passed by the house yesterday, but its re- consideration was moved this morning, and more than an hour was spent in heated debate, as to whether such committee was needed. MT. Mitchell, chairman of the ways and means committee, explained the urgent necessity for it's sitting-that with out it the general revenue bill could not be framed in time for passage after the recess. It was argued that both the governor and auditor recommended the committee. The motion to reconsider failed to carry. After a spirited debate upon the resolu- tion offered by Mir. Mitchell and the same had been adopted, the speaker on his own motion, stated that hereafter he would hold | it to be unparliamentary, and therefore out of order, for any member upon the floor Of l the house to refer to the governor as be- | ing in favor of or opposed to any measure 1 MT. Kyle, as soon he could get recogni- | tion, stated to the speaker that while the | question was not before the house, he did | not propose to give seeming acquiescence to such parliamentary holding by keep ing silent and therefore, he wished it dis-l | tinctly understood that he differed from | the speaker of the house upon that rulings | That as a representative of the people Of l Alabama, and particularly of the people of | Morgan county, he believed that he had the | right to refer to the governor of Alabama 1 the president of the United States, or any other notable character in history, wheth- CT living or dead, as to their views on pup | lie questions if known by him, In order to | illustrate or make more forceful any re- marks he might choose to make on any | question, and that there. was not line or 1 parliamentary law anywhere against ms | right to do so.
 | Speaker Waller explained after the ses- | sion that he did not intend his ruling as | In any way reflection upon the governor, | but that he thought it an injustice to the governor to have members upon the noor say as to what the chief executive dfd or l did not approve. Many lOCftl piilS' dAu SNA7 l eral bills of little importance have been introduced by members wk1 have sought to | strengthen their measures by stating that the bill had been shown to the governor l and he had given it his approval. In justice l to the governor, the speaker mas sought lo | break up this practice.
 Smooth Sailing
 The constitutional convention bill had | smooth sailing in the house this morning. | A wrangle was anticipated when the mo- | tion of MT. Brown to reconsider the vote | by which the bill was passed yesterday, was considered. MT Brown favored the bill and
 yesterday moved it's reconsideration for the | purpose which he carried out this morning. | When the house had been In session beyond l the limit at which a motion to reconsider | can be made, MT. Brown withdrew his mo- | tion. In an instant MT. Cofer was on his l feeet protesting, and trying to renew the | motion, but his efforts were futile, as he 1 had voted against the measure, in addition l to the time limit having expired. | Schools Will Not he Investigated joint resolution was offered by MT. | Smith of Escambia, which was subsequent l ly given a favorable report by the rules l committee authorizing the appointment of | committee of five to viist and examine the | schools of the state. The school question | is the livest before this session of the as- | semby, and it was the purport of this reso- | lution to ascertain if the agricultural | schools were doing the work for which they
 were created and if their appropriations
 should be continued Also, to visit and | report upon the condition of the several | normal schools, the Industrial School for | Girls at Montevallo, and the university at | Tuscaloosa, to report upon their conditions. | There was much opposition to this reso- | lution, and it was finally tabled by large | majority vote.
 Thanked Hobson
 MT, Pettus offered a resolution, which 4l.-
 ed rendering the thanks of the assembly l to Naval Constructor Hobson for the inter-
 esting and patriotic address last night.
 MT. Matthews, of Clark, arose to a ques-
 tion of personal privilege. He stated that | on yesterday when the vote was to be taken | on the constitutional convention he had | failed to vote against 1t for the reason that
 he agreed to pair with MT. Poole, of Maren-
 go. He did not know at that time that 1t | required the consent of the house to pair
 and he wanted the journal to show him as
 paired. It was so ordered
 Gross Income Tax
 The house reconsidered the vote by which
 the bill to exempt from taxation the gross
 incomes of all gas companies, electric light
 companies and street railways was lost on
 Monday, and the bill was passed.
 Mir. Tunstall asked to have the vote by
 which the bill to make the legal rate of in-
 terest in Alabama per cent. was passed,
 reconsdered. He argued that the measure
 would increase rather than decrease the in-
 terest rate. That there were now many
 outstanding notes which would be called in
 on the first of the year, if this bill became
 law, and that with the low price of cot
 ton, these obligations could not be met.
 MT. Howard argued at length that the
 measure would tend to drive money from
 the state for investment There were sev-
 eral speeches on the subject, but the vote
 was not reconsidered.
 Mr. Wallace presented a. resolution me-
 moralizing the Alabama Legislature in
 congress to use their efforts in behalf of an
 appropriation to open the Tennessee river | was adopted.