The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-29
MUNICIPAL BILL WILL GIVE
 THE MEMBERS TROUBLE
Governor Signs the Anti-Boycott Bill, as We'll as the Anti-Baseball Bill. Senate and House
 Wide Apart.
BY E. E. KERSH.

Mont gomery, September 2S.-tSpeeiaL)- With only three days remaining for the enactment of laws, the Alabama legisia- ture will have to "get move on" to fulhll the expectations of the public. Both houses will convene again tomorrow morning al the usual hours. and a full day of hard work will be had
 At this late day there are five of the most important bills of the session tied up in either one house or the other, or in committees in conference. These are the municipal corporation code, the general election bill. primary election bill. the bank examiners bill and the Lusk redis trietng bill. The first two have passed both houses, but amendments tackled on by one or the other of the houses make the provision of the measures as origin ally passed wide apart Municipal Bill Gives Trouble.
 There is such great contrast between the house municipal code bill known as the Walker bill and the senate bill, which was drawn by the special senate com ! mittee that it would be a well nigh endless 1 task to seek to point them out. The sem ate is insisting on it's bill, and backed by ! the support of the entire recess com l mittee it is matter of much doubt as 1 to whether 1t will ever recede from it's position. The house is equally insistent that the Walker bin is preferable, and here is the rub. A conference committee has been named but it can't amount to very much, for even should the commit tee undertake to reconcile the two meas ures they would not have the time The bills cover q hundred pages consisting of something in the nelghborhood of fifty thousand words each. The only way tp settle the trouble is for one or the other of the houses to give way completely. But will they do fl?
 Election Bill Tied Up.
 The Bankhead election bill is also tied up in the confer ence committee yet. The two houses take issue oyer the propo- slton of booths and markers in this bill. The house bill abolished the booths and markers but the senate decided that both the booth and the marker were still necessary, and these provisions were placed in the bill. The house by very ! decided vote turned down the proposi-
 ton, and unless the senate recedes in
 this case It may be asserted with prac-
 tical positiveness that there will be no
 election law enacted by this legislature.
 The senate has passed a primary elee- tion bill, which now has the right of way
 on the house calendar but Chairman
 Bankhead prefers not to call it up until action is had on the general election bill. l The provisions of the two bills are 10 be made practically the same If the con- | ference committee on the election bills fails to report by tomorrow, it Is vety , probable that action will be had on the l primary bill anyway. To use the ian- guage of member from north Alabama, while discussing the matter this morn- ing. if the legislature fails to pass this | bill many Of the members had best not return home and ask for further political honors
 Bank Examiners Bill Will Pass. II Is not known just when the bank examiners bill will be called up, but it will pass when it is reached Just now the leading opponents of the senate bill are working earnestly for some moditi- cations, but whether they will get them is a question that the full membership of the house will most probably settle
 There is a strong feeling that the sen- ate will find time during the remaining days to reach the Lusk redstricting bill and probably pass if. Unfortunately for this measure it Is regarded by many mem- bers political, and they are very natu- rally feeling around to see if the pas- sage of the bill would in any way weak en the fences of their friends.
 Governor Signs Bill.
 Among the big batch of bills receiving the governors signature today was the anti-boycott bill There were several pe- titions against the measure, but the meas ure is now a law. The bill to prevent the playing of baseball, football, tennis and golf on Sunday was also signed by tho governor. Locally this measure has re- ceived more attention than any that has been before the session. many fearing it's passage would put Montgomery out of the league.
 Heavy Increase in immigration.