The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-16
xLNWxO O4 Measure Easily Passed by Upper House. oeelaSed That Associate Railroad Commissioners saouid Mt L. tssis1ated Gut of ofice-To feaea Agriculture
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Fhs substitute to tho woolf bill, fixing me manner If hing complaints before the naliFeaa Oemmission, which provides that ths fsF}as ST 6fies 6f the i've assseiats members af the Commission snaii pe en- tehded uatii ths teFRas sf tneiF appsiat. Fasat sxRiFs, ~as Pssssd yesterday aftsE- ResH by the Senate aftsF g isas asbats:
 # VIII Ps FensIa lsfsu tnat ia tis Fea= FaS,F ssssiaR ef tns Legislature, 3 pill Vas passed Pra~iaIaS eag lhs eIsst;aa ef Railroad eaEaasissisasrs by tas asanis. fRis nili furtissS PEsvi6sd that ths first e'sstiaR esF these Pficers saauid hs asid iR fSsrsmRsr, i6ot: By tas provision of tRs HsW piii, Assseiste Commissioners W. 5: FpRssaii and V: F: Sanders will re. Ra;a iR sfies GRtii November, iSsT thsY sasia having been appointed fer terms of feus years;
 Opposition te 1iij,
 rae passage ef the phi met with stres- tieas ahisetiea, by few sasmbeTs af tas senate. fne minds ef tas majority seeTa= ea te nave hoea made up. hewsver, and Ha VateE were enaaged, The final veto Was 20 ayes, nays,
 FHe phi was eaiied uR at aiae a'eieeh yesterday afteFaeaR AS 8 special eFdes,
 seRateF ftegue of Berry tee4 ti,e fieeR against the substituts, lie effeRed an d amendment to strike cut Eeetian l ef the substitute, which would nave left eaiy tiae episiHat Weeif biil providing fer the meth. sa sf Hins complaints,
 HeaateF Hasue saId that although freaa q test vote, which had been taken dufina tine morning sessian, he was eeav;need mat the minds ef q majority of the mea= pefs haa been made up to vote fep the supstitute, na could nat refrain fssm sPea King 6R measure, which he thought so ueaF te hia constituents and which the eeaaters were trying to xiii.
 He then explained hew the weeif biij aad beea originally framed te pReyi.s for methsd ef filing complaints before the osmmissieni hew, ~hen the bill reached tne committee, feFeiga provisions had peeh added allowing the present 6aIa- missieneFa te fiji the terms ef their ap. peihtHaent against the purpose of the biii which tiie Senate and the Eeuss had passed pef6Fe the Feeesa, lie believed that the aniXing ef tiie section te the hill was unconstitutional. In his epnian, 1t IS ia direct opposition ta ths constitutional provision that iR the framing of biiis, net more than ene subject may be handled
 During a wave ef popular sentiment, hs said, the Legislature had passed an eiee. tive Railroad Commission hiii, Now in less than six months, the same Legisia. lure ~aa making an effort "a fetraet the good work done and to hold political friends in office. Personally the Senator from Perry, said he, had nothing against either ef the Commissioner who would De efreoted ny the biil but he was op. pesed to the will of the people being ever. ridden an personal grounds.
 The Senators, he said, may have ne, tieed rerulsien of popular feeling to- ward the elective Railroad Commission bill when they returned home but among his constituents he had noticed no such change.
 Hogue Amendment Tabled,
 Senator Blackmon of Calhoun moved to lay the amendment on the table. The mo- ton prevailed. % ayes. I nays.
 Senator Frazer of Bullock offered an amendment, which provided that the members of the present Commission should go out of offlce on November i 1904. and should be succeeded by Com. missioners elected by the people.
 In speaking to biz amendment Senator Frazer sa!d
 You know. and I know, that number of the members of this body rode the elective Railroad Commission bill into the Senate"
 He explained that 1t had been a great pleasure for him to be the member of a Legislature which had passed the law. ~--N c was pOpuIdl WllH Hlb COT- atituents and he believed that 1t was the duty of every Legislature to act as the people would have it net. He had been proud to be on the same side of the fight as n gentleman. who by his own person. ality and power had done much to win the Senate over to the elective Commission bill.
 ''But when saw that gentleman" tsen- ntor RoEers). continued the Senator from Bullock "as one of the advocates of this substitute. which Is indirect contradiction to the purport of the original bill, I was not surprised. I simply felt like throwing up my hands and dying on the spot"
 Mir. Frazer said that he had nothing against any of the present Commission CTS. He was of the opinion that they were all good and competent men. If an election for Railroad Commissioners would come off tomorrow he would probably vote for all three of them, but he did not believe that the will of the people of Ala bama should be downtrodden for the sake of political friendships.