The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-25
ANTI-BOYCOTT BILL PASSES THE LOWER HOUSE AFTER HEATED
 DEBATE BY X VOTE OF 69 TO SS
Continued from First Paee)

as were hurled at Chancelloc sarmlchael
 should be prevented. There was nothing
 in the bill, he said to prevent free
 speech
 ! MT. Benners told of the operation Of
 the boycott in Jefferson. A delivery wa
 gon had been broken Gown on the streets of Birmingham and was sent to an ''un-
 fair" shop for repair. Becaase If ths
 the firm owning the wagon bad been
 placed upon the unfair list and men stood in front of the doors distributing circu- lars calling attention to the boycott "The boycott is an insidious and nefarious in- vention and 1t is time that 1t should be made illegal" declared Mir. Benners. He read from publication to show 10 what extent the boycott had heen operated to the detriment of Chicago, and also how picketing had been carr ed on in Fir mingham at a machine sh op where strike had been inaugurated and non- union labor supplied. Picketirg was one of the greatest evils Of the dav and he hoped 1t would be nipped in the bud in Alabama before it reached The Chicago stage. He said he pleaded In the name of 135000 people of Jefferson county for the passage of the bill. He then with drew his motion to indefinitely postpone and moved the previous question on the passage of the bill. The bill was passed by vote of 59 to s.
 Vote on Boycott Bill.
 The following is the consolidated vote: Ayes-Messrs. Almon, Arlington. Bal lard, Bankhead, Barnes Benners, Black burn. Brown (Cleburne) Brown est. Clair), Byars, Cook, Curry. DuBose, El- liott. Espy, Fletcher, Foster (Pike), Franklin, Frazier, Fulton, Glover, Gray, Haley, Handley, Hardie, Hickman, James, Johnson (Pery), Johnson (RusselD, Joiner, I<illen, Lanier, Leigh (Escambia), Lowe, Lyman. Lusk, McClusky, Mcdonald, Me- Tyer, Parker, Peters, Poole, Posey Pow ell, Pugh. Rich. Rucker, Schuessler, Scale, Siglin, Simpson, Strother, Thach, Thom- as, Werner, Waddell, Walker. Warren, Wiggins, 59.
 Nays-Messrs. Speaker. Arnold, Bogart. Crum, Cunningham, Davis. Edwards, Goldsmith, Goodwin, Hammer, Hoffman, Holland, Kelly, Lee (Butler), Lyons, Mills. McCrary, Newman, Pilley, Rey- holds, Rushton, Searcy, Shafer, Starr, Swindall, Thompson, Walden, Watts, Wheeless, Williams (Calhoun). Williams (Covington), Wood, Young, S.
 The following is full text of the bill as passed
 The Bill.
 A bill, to be entitled an act to prohibit boycotting, unfair lists picketing or other with the lawful busifess or of others, and to provide a penalty therefor.
 Section 1. Be 1t enacted by the legis- Iature of Alabama, That 1t shall be un- lawful for two or more persons to con spire together for the purpose of pre- venting ay person, persons, firm or from carving on any lawful business within the state of Alabama, or for the purpose of interfering with the same.
 Section 2. That 1t shall be unlawful for any person or persons to go near to or loiter about the premises or place of bus mess of any person, firm or corporation engaged in a lawful business, for the purpose of influencing or inducing others not to trade with, buy from, sell to or have business dealings with such person, firm or corporation, or to picket the works or place of business of such other person, firm or corporation, for the purpose of in- terfering with or injuring any lawful bus mess or enterprise, provided that nothing herein contained shall prevent any person from soliciting trade or business from a business.
 Section g. That 1t shall be unlawful to print or circulate any notice of boycott, boycott cards, stickers dodgers or unfair lists, publishing or declaring that boy colt or ban exists or has existed or Is against any person, firm or doing a lawful business, or publishing the name of any judicial officer or other public official upon any black list, unfair list or other similar list be- cause of any lawful act or decision of such official
 Section f. That it shall be unlawful to use force, threats or other means of in- inhalation to prevent any person from in any lawful ocupation at any place he or she sees fit
 Section 5. That it shall be unlawful for any person. firm or corporation to main- tain blacklist or to notify any other firm or corporation that any person has been blaeklisted by such person, firm or or to use any other similar means to prevent such persons from re- ,eivng employment Any person, firm or violating any provision of this act must. on conviction pay a fine of not les than fifty (S5O00) dollars, nor more than five hundred (500.00) dollars. or to be imprisoned not to exceed sixty days hard labor for the county.
 That all laws and parts of laws in con- hict with the provisions of this act be and the same are hereby repealed.
 Afternoon Session.
 More than half of the afternoon session was consumed with the consideration of senate messages, fight on concurretce in a senate bill providing boards # trus- tees for the district agricultural schools causing a spirited debate. The m )tlon to concur finally won by votS of 47 to g. The bill as passed provides that the governor, commissioner of agriculture and superintendent of education shall be members of all boards, which shall also consist of two other members each, to be appointed from the districts in which the schools are located
 The bill to establish at the University of Alabama a summer scnJJl for teach CTS and to provide an appropriation for its maintenance, was called as the special order and couple of amendments were offered and adopted. Etr. Lusk pro- posed that the appropriation should not become available until tho supplemental sum of s25O0 be raised, and that Alabama teachers should not be charged tuition or an incidental fee greater than c3.q0
 Mir. Davis, as author of the bill. stated the provisions of the bill. 1t appropri- ates S5OOo to the summer school, and its purpose is to give the six thousand white teachers in the state an opportunity to better prepare themselves for their work Mr. Davis said that last year three ftn- fred teachers went from Alabama to summer schools in other states and with he lessened cost 1t was expectel that rom 5O0 to 600 would annually attend the school at Tuscaloosa. The school is 10 In session about six weeks aud has been made tD secure board at from s10 per month upward.