The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-12
LEGISGLATURE WILL RECESS
 FEBRUARY 28 TO SEPTEMBER

Constitution. These bills, he said. had not been prepared and the exigencies of the situation had not been met.
 The committee to regulate munioipalt ties, MT. Rioh said, had c lot of matters before 1t which were as yet undigested. The committee had not prepared general laws. 1t had been impossible, he said, for the committee to evolve anything that would meet the condition and the same was true of the Local Legislation Com mittee and other committees
 Will Have Worked A Days.
 Under the resolution Mir. Rich said. the House would fill out forty-four days before adjournment. which would leave sixteen days after an adjournment. Much of the needed legislation he said would have been accomplished before the ad- tournment.
 MT. McCreary of Lee said he was op- posed to the Legislature rsconvening in September. September he said, was a bad month for the farmer. He wanted the date changed to August. which. he said would be much more satisfactory than September.
 MT. Walker of Madison, chairman of the Committee on Municipal Corporations endorsed the report of the committee It was impossible. he said, for his oom- mittee with the great mass Of other mat ters that came before it, to prepare and submit general bills to the House without an adjournment.
 The proposed adjournment, MT. Starr, of Dallas held, was opposed to the spirit. if not the letter of the constitution. The constitution, he declared, contemplated only one session of the Legislature He put forward the increased expense Of committees during the recess as an objec- ton to adjournment He held that the Legislature should go forward with its work to the end of the sixty days session and let the Governor call an extra ses- sion if one was necessary.
 Wilkinson Favored Report.
 Mfr. Wilkinson of Autsuga argued for the committee report. As a farmer he was in favor of adjournment. He did not particularly favor the date of re- assembling, but the members should sink their personal feelings as they were here in the interest of the whole State.
 MT. Werner of Tuscaloosa supported the committee report. He took issue with Mir. Starr on the constttutionahty of the proposed adjournment declaring that the Legislature clearly had the right to adjourn if 1t so desired He said that only a few general laws had been passed by either house to take the place of local legislation and not one, he said, had passed both houses.
 Mir. Espy of Henry. advocated the com mittee report and resolution. The Legislature he argued. could not possibly meet all the demands upon 1t without an adjournment during which the committees should work and prepare bills.
 Mir. Foster of Tuscaloosa said that as a member of the special joint committed. he would submit reasons for adjourn ment Mir. Foster declared that the work of construction under existing con- ditions by the Legislature was impossa- ble. The time of the members, he said, was fully occupied with morning and afternoon ssessions and with committee meetings. member had no time to give to the important work of construction.
 Foster Opposed to Idle Days.
 He reviewed the history of the Constitu- tional Convention which he said, had had many idle days and finally had to take an adjournment. Unless there was an adjournment, MT. Foster said. the Legis- lature would be confronted with idle days that the committees might sit
 Mr. Thomas of Chambers declared that he supported the resolution, not as 8 matter of preference but as matter of duty.
 MT. Lusk of Marshall opposed the reso- hution. He held with MT. Starr that the proposed adjournment was a violation of the spirit of the Constitution. He ar gued that if the session could be broken into two parts. 1t could be broken into four parts of fifteen days each
 MT. Bsnners of Jefferson read provisions in the United States and the Alabama An ~I.1 NI2ak Ina lot ttapu governing the sitting of the Legislature and Congress were the same. The Con- gress of the United States, he said, re- cessed at its will and he held that the Legislature had the same right, He said that the people of Alabama expected the Legislature to do its work well and the work, he held, could not be we'll done without recess. The Constitutional Con- vention, he said. had left the Legislature a great mass of work to do in sixty days, a task for which the Convention had required four months.
 Mo Way to Stop New Bills.
 MT. Callahan of Morgan did not favor the resolution. If the Legislature ad- journed. he said. the same conditions would confront the members after the re cess as now. There would be no way to stop the introduction of bills and resolu- tions. The legislators, he said, could not be compelled to accept any bills that might be framed.
 The resolution was advocated by Mir Bankhead of Walker. He gave as a req son for his support of the resolution that a recess would in the end secure the best results. The House would. he said, ac- complish it's work much quicker if a re- cess was taken and committees were allowed to sit.
 MT. Bogart of Jackson spoke for the resolution, closing the debate upon iG
 The committee report and the resoiu- tion was adopted by a vote of 5s to Ss.
 Support of East Lake School.
 The bill of Mir. Walker of Madison ap-