The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-12
HOUSE AFTERNOON sEssroH.
Representatives Passed Three Local
 Bills.

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 Bills.
 The afternoon session of the House be- gan at o'clock. On the call of the roll seventy-one members answered to their names.
 Only local bills were cons3dsred at the afternoon session. The roll of counties was called and each representative was, under the rule, allowed to call up one bill on it's final passage. Mir. Parker of Cullman called up the first bill. House bill 216. to repeal an act establishing a Board of Revenue in Gull man County. The bill was passed with no dissenting votes.
 MT. Shafer of Dallas called up House bill s6 which creates the Fourteenth Ju- dfcial Circuit in Alabama. The circuit is to be composed of the counties of Walker and Winston. The niiI provides that the Judge of the new circuit and the Solici- tor shall be appointed by the Governor. These officers are to receive the same sal- ary as are paid similar of1cers.
 The bill was passed. nays being cast against 1t.
 Senate bill S was under the call of Fillmore County. called up by Mir. McClus- key. The bill repeals an act regulating the trials of misdemeanors in Lamar County.
 several btlls 1ntroQuceo.
 The rules were suspended for the intro duction of bills and several were sent up to the Clerks desk v
 A report from the Committee on Peni. tentiaries and Criminal Administrations was submitted to the House under . suspension of the rules.
 The bill establishing the law and equity court of Morgan County was called up by MT. Leigh of Escambia
 Mir. Lusk of Marshall objected to ths bill. claiming that it was a general bill. This contention was denied by MT. Caila- han of Morgan, the author of the biII The chairman. Representative Powers, ruled that the bill was a local measure
 MT. Lusk appealed to the House from the ruling of the chair. The decision of the chair was sustained by a vote of 50 to Ii.
 Rift Broke Through Cloud.
 At one time it looked as if there would be rather lively scene between the pre- siding officer and Mir. Lusk. but the con- troversy was carried on courteously ana within parliamentary bounds.
 The chairman having been sustained in his ruling. ths Dill was ordered to third reading.
 The measure produced rather spirited discussion, participated in by the North Alabama members.
 The bill establishing the new court of Morgan abohshes the Circuit Court and 1t was opposed by Mir. Simpson of IAu- derdale. Mr. Lusk of Marshall, Mir. Walk CT of Madison and Mir. London of Jefrer- son.
 Mr. London of Jefferson said he was op- posed to the bill because it was gem eral measure He based that belief on the fact that the bfll provided that the sal aries of the Judge and Solicitor should be paid out o6 the State treasury.
 The other speakers held also that # was general bill. but they were opposed to 1t because the same conditions thai existed in Morgan County existed in the neighboring counties. They said that the dockets of the other counties in the Eighth Judicial Circuit were conReSted and the bill proposed to give Morgan County an advantage over other counties.
 Callahan's Good Fight.
 MT. Callahan made a strong fight for his measure and carried it through ths House over aggressive opposition. lie quoted statistics to show that the ad- ministration of justice was delayed in Morgan County because of the conxested court docket and recited some instancaa where the conditions worked a great hard ship on htigants.
 He said that thirteen out of the nine. teen members of the Morgan County har wanted the court and he said that he was confident that the people Of he county would vote for the new court if 1t was submitted to an election.
 Mir. Callahan was assisted in his fxhk by Representative Blackburn of yefrereon' who spoke for the measure. The bill y~se passed by vote of ayes a. nays s4.
 The House adjourned at SIS o'clock ia meet at l0:9o o'clock today.