The age-herald., 1901-03-02
There Was Not a Spirited De-
 bate During the Day
DEFICIT BILL UP TO THE HOUSE
That Measure Promises To Bring Out One of the Hottest Fights of the Session-Whlte House Bill
 Passed.

Ase-Herald Bureau, C1ancey's Hotel Montgomery. March 1.-(Special. )-This has been one of the dulest days of the present sesison of the General Assem- bly,. The members have performed their legislative duties in a listless sort of way, which evidences that they are glad for the coming of the day for final adjourn ment
 There was not a debate of much spirit In either House today.
 All of the important general bills, save two. have been disposed of, and these two are made special orders for tomor- row, one in each House. The Senate will have the revenue bill for consideration, while the House will take up the Harrf- son deficit bill This measure promises to develop a real hot fight. Superintendent of Education Abercombie is making a very active fight against the bil which seeks to scale all appropriations. while Governor Sanford is supporting the measure. He is very watchful of the treasury and is very desirous of protect l ing it against recent onslaughts
 MT. Clarke of Mobile will lead the fight for the bill, and this means much in It's favor.
 1 MT. Wallace of Madison, chairman of the appropriations committee, is leading the fight against the measure.
 Jefferson Members Through.
 The Jefferson County members have l cleared their calendar and they are a happy set of fellows tonight. All of the Jefferson County bills on the calendar were passed today.
 The famous hog law bill which has threatened the political life of some of the members, was the last of the bills passed through the House this afternoon. The members seem to be relieved of A. great burden now that the measure is a law.
 Speaking of the matter tonight. Repre- sentative Benners said that the delega- tion may have made some mistakes, but that they were of the unanimous opinion that they had redeemed themselves by the passage of the hog bill.
 The Jefferson members have taken very high rank in the General Assembly and they conclude the session with clear rec ords as good and conservative legislators
 The Birmingham lobbyists have practi- caly all returned home The only thing remaining to keep them interested Is the election of a judge for the City Court of Bessemer, which will take place Mon day.
 President Jelks took the Senate on a special train to his home in Eufaula to- night. The president will banquet the members and return in time for the ses- sion tomorrow.
 The House.
 The House had an extremely dull morn- ing session. There was but a single de- bate during the session, and that was not very spirited. Some of the members took occasion to throw a few bouquets at the press cf the State
 Immediately after the session convened the Governor sent a message to the House announcing his veto of a bill relating to the fees of the solicitor for Marengo County.
 The calendar was taken up and several unimportant bills were acted upon Mir. Craft called up the Senate bill res | ulatins the catching of oysters from tn, public reefs of the State, and the bill wal passed
 MT. Doster called up the bill whicl seeks to have the local acts of the Leg islature published in some paper in tn, county which may be effected, and rftc short debate the measure was passed exempting Hale. Wilcox, Conecuh, Tus caloosa, Franklin, Chambers, Bullock St. Clair Elmore, Barbour, Clay, Lee Bibb, Butler, Cherokee. Escambia, Wash. ington and Clarke from the provisions of the measure. Mir Henley attempted to get through an amendment that the paper receiving the contract to publish the laws, be res uuired to mail one copy to each tax pays CT in the county, but the amendment failed.
 Messrs. Troup of Morgan, Curry of flckens Henry of Russell Doster of Autauga, Godfrey of Sumter and BulgeF of Tallapoosa spoke for the bill.
 Indebted to the Press.
 MT. Troup said that the people of the State owed more to the newspaper fra ternity than to any other profession but this bill was not especially in their inter. est It was for the general discrimination of the acts of the Legislature, and every person affected should be given an op- portunity 10 know what the laws were The other speakers followed the senti- ment expressed by MT. Troup. There was no opposition to the bill after the several counties named had been eliminated from it's provisions.
 Other bills were passed without debate as follows:
 H. 1a36. For the relief of N J. Stoll- worth as probate judge of Monroe Coun- ty.
 H. 1879. To authorize the building of c