The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-19
,IuSk Bill Passed With
 Comparative Ease. JUDGE FOR MONTGOMERY sHe is to be Named as Soon as
 Bill Becomes Law. Senate Measure for Extension of Railroad Commissioners Terms Passed by Lower House-Pool
 Selling Measure Killed.
JUDGE FOR MONTGOMERY

The House of Representatives yester- lday quickly and without unnecessary dis lcussion, disposed of one of the knottiest problems of the session of 1903, the rear rangement of the judicial circuits of the State.
 The House did its work methodically and systematically. The judicial circuit bill was admirably managed and in some inexplicable way 1t got through the House without opening the flood gates Of ora tory. The way in which the House ex- peditiously passed the judicial circuit bill set a hopeful precedent for its disposal of other important matters of general in- terest in the few remaining days of the session.
 Mr. Lusk of Marshall. the author of the bill was its floor manager. He had in the early days of the session introduced the bill rearranging the judicial circuits During the winter session special )olnt committee had been raised to prepare and present a bill on this subject. Various Interests were found to conflict when 1t was proposed to break up old circuits and create new ones. Public sentiment in one county would clash with that in anoth- CT. The special joint committee was un- able to agree upon general redlstrict- ing bill and the matter fell into state Iof 'inocuous desuetude."
 Having introduced his bill, MT. Lusk gave 1t wide publicity. Any one with lideas and suggestions upon the subject were invited to give them to the Judi- Iciarv Committee. The committee consid- lered the bill carefully, The various in ,4erests fought out their contests before Ithe committee. The House escaped the unpleasant and tiresome duty Of passing Dupon them.
 The committee reported substitute Tor 4he original bill making several changes. eThe substitute was printed and laid on the desks of members. Yesterday when the bill was up for pas saRe several amendments were offered but these amendments had been passed upon and agreed previously by the tSriends of the bill who were in the ma idority. In this way the consideration or fine bif wal c1 short and it's passsES lexpedited.
 Affects Montgomery at Once.
 In the substitute as passed, Montgom- kery has a place in the Fifteenth judicial circuit which is composed of the counties Inf Montgomery, Autauga, Chiffon and FL more. MT. Goodwin offered an amend ynent which was adopted providing that +he bill so far as it related to the FIT +eenth circuit should go into effect at once. The amendment provided further that the Governor was authorized to ap- poiut a judge and solicitor for the new circuit at once. .passed are as follows:
 First Circuit-Choctaw, Clarke Maren- 20 and Monroe.
 Second Circuit-Butler, Conecuh, Cren- ,shaw. Escambia and Lowndes.
 Third Circuit-Barbour, Bullock, Dale, Lee and Russell.
 Fourth Circuit-Bibb, Dallas, Hale, Perry and Wilcox.
 Fifth Circuit-Chambers, Coosa, Macon, Randolph and Tallapoosa.
 Sixth Circuit-Fayette, Greene, Lamar, eyoickens, Sumter, Tuscaloosa.
 Seventh Circuit-Calhoun, Clay, Gle burne, Shelby and Talladega.
 Eighth Circuit-Cullman, Lawrence and Morgan.
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 Judges.
 ,Lauderdale and Marion
 Twelfth Circuit-Coffee, Covington, Geneva, Henry, Houston and Pike.
 Thirteenth Circuit-Baldwin, Mobile and Washington.
 Fourteenth Circuit-Walker and Wins ton.
 Fifteenth Circuit-Montgomery. Autau- ga, Chiffon and Fillmore.
 sixteenth Circuit-Madison and Lime stone.
 seventeenth Circuit-DeKalb. Cherokee, EJackson and Marshall
 Railroad Commission Bill.
 The Senate bill providing that the as- .eociate railroad commissioners appointed last February should serve full term of four years, was passed with votes to spare. The old rallying cry of 'an cleo five commission-thewill of the people, was raised but 1t had lost it's potency. It was able to summon but few more than ,a corporals guard. The fight yesterday was an echo, faint echo. of the hot fight of last winter over au election commits sion.
 : Several of the strongest advocates of an elective commission declared that they had not changed their convictions but they held that the Governor had appoint ed the commissioners for four years and they should be permitted to serve out their terms
 The feature of the debate was the mai den speech of MT. Elliott. Mir. Elliott is from Hale county in which one of the associate commissioners lives. but he made a stirring speech in opposition to the bill. He said that If Colonel Tunstall was a candidate before the people for Railroad Commissioner he would support him, but that he stood unchangeable for an elective commission and he conceived ,the extension bill to run counter to that conviction.
 The bill to legalize pool selling was ef- fectively killed in the House during the afternoon session.