The age-herald., 1901-02-08
LEGISLATURE HAS
 UNEVENTFUL DAY
Montgomery's Amendment to
 Pool Law is Lost
BESSEMER HAS CITY COURT
Jefferson County Members Divided on the Question and Discussion Was
 Quite Spirited-House Will
 Visit Mobile and Pensacola.

Age-Herald Bureau, Clancey's Hotel, Montgomery February 7.-(Special )-To- days session of the General Assembly has been rather an uneventful one. But few bills were passed by either house, the mem- bers apparently vieing with each other in their efforts to talk on all measures com ing up.
 The House stamped it's disapproval of at- tempts to repeal the anti-pool selling law today when MT. Seibels' bill seeking to re- peal the measure in so far as Montgomery is concerned. was defeated by a vote of A to 2S There was not much discussion of the measure MT. Whitson of Talladega making a sharp attack upon it. This vote indicates that no bill seeking to amend or repeal the law can be passed at this session.
 Vote on Pool Bill.
 The vote the measure was as fol- lows:
 Ayes-Me ssrs. Bankhead, Bartlett, Croft, Deans, Fuller Conner, Gavin. Graves of Montgomery, Griffin, Guyton, Hilliard, Holt, Jones of Lee, Jones of Wilcox La cey, Leath, Long of Henry, Long of Walk CT, Poole of Lowndes, Reilly, Screws Seib- els, Simpson, Tunstall, Wallace Ward, Woolff.
 Nays-Messrs. Baker, Blair, Brandon, Breedlore, Brooks, Bulman, Byers Car michael, DeLoney, Dickson, Dill, Doster, Gillian, Godfrey, Hammond, Hardy, Har- ris, Heacock, Hefiin, Hogue, Johnson, Jones of Conecah, Kennedy Knight, Maxwell, McMillan, O'Brien, Oliver, Pettus, Poole of Clarke, Pounds. Porter of Coosa, Powell,
  Troup, Walden, Whitson, Williams of Gov ington, Williams of Marengo, Wilson of Bibb, Wilson of Clarke, ouns
 Bessemer City Court.
 The bill to establish a city court for Bes- semer passed the House by a vote of 63 to 10.
 The measure caused a lively discussion among the members, being principally con fined to the Jefferson County delegation. MT. Lacey spoke in support od the meas ure and MT. OBrien followed in opposi- tion MT. O'Brien stated that the bill had been introduced by himself at the first of the session with the understanding that the law providing for term of the Cir cult Court at Bessemer would be repealed, but since the failure of this measure he would recommend that his bill be not passed. MT. Dill opposed the bill stating prleTy ms reasons 10 De that the court would incur an additional large expense to the county and there was no good reason why such a court should be established.
 MT. Long of Walker and MT Leath of Jefferson spoke for the measure, and Mir. Benners closed In opposition to it. MT. Lacey stated that the bill providing for a term of the Circuit Court at Bessemer will be repealed when the city court bill is passed.
 The bill to detach Hale County from the Ninth and add it to the Sixth Congression- al district passed the House today by a vote of 55 to 0.
 The House adopted resolutions accepting invitations from the citizens of Mobile and Pensacola to visit those cities during Mar di Gras, and a committee on arrangements consisting of Messrs. Arnold, Croft and Jones of Conecuh was appointed.
 MT. Pettus of Limestone led a fight in the House today to reconsider the vote by which the bill establishing a branch agri cultural school at Greensboro was passed yesterday. The effort was fruitless, the House refusing to reconsider by vote of A to .2S.
 The House committee on education, by a vote of to 4, adversely reported the Bull ger bill, but an effort will be made to have it placed on the calendar.