The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-15
This Was Work Of Lower House.
Majority Flushed with Victory Overrode Minority and Amend ed General Election Bill in
 Committee of the Whole.

l Unless the House of Represene>,tiles | undoes the work of the committee of the ! whole the Solicitor of the City Court oi Montgomery with all the County Solioa'
 tors of the State will go before the peo pie for election. The House yesterday ! sitting as the committee of the whole inserted into the general election bill an amendment making all county soncitors | elective by the people.
 It was done over the protest of an energetic and oratorical minority. but the majority was in control. and its will was not to be thwarted- The majority rejoicing in its successful revolt of Thursday used its new found power to the limit.
 To the iconoclastic insurgents no sac redness attached to the chairman or any of his rulings. If a ruling did not suit the majority an appeal from the chair was promptly taken. No less than two appeals were so taken yesterday.
 The London elective Railroad Commis- sion bill was put before the House yes terday without recommendation. This &C., ton on the part of the Committee on Commerce and Common Carriers was un- expected. It had been stated that the committee would send the bill to the House under a favorable report and 1t was common gossip that a majority of the committee favored the measure. The failure of the bill to get a favorable re- port however, only throws a slight diff ficulty in the way of the overwhe elming majority which has registered its will In favor of an elective commission. The majority is of course able to work its will In the House and the passage of the bill Is confidently predicted.
 Appropriation for Veterans. The House made but slight progress yesterday. The day was again set apart for the orators. Beyond the two and a half hours of talk nothing was accom- plished but the passage of the Walden bill making an additional appropriation | of $1Oo.ooo for the relief of the needy Confederate soldiers of Alabama and theil widows.
 The important action of yesterday was taken In the insertion into the electior
 bill of the paragraph making the County | Solicitors elective by the people. Tho
 committee of the whole proceeded SC | slowly with the consideration of the gen
 eral election bill that 1t rose and put the
 bill back before the House. which re | committed 1t to the committee of tn, | whole with pending amendments with in
 structions to report 1t to the House Mon
 day. The bill will be passed withou l further consideration by the committe, l of the whole. All members who want i l changed in any particular will be given l chance to offer their amendments wher l the bill is on its final passage.
 The feature of the day was the discus
 sion of the paragraph making county SO
 licitor's elective by the people. Thi paragraph was the pending question whe,
 the House met as the committee of tn
 whole.
 | Question of Solicitors.
 MT. Arnold opposed the county solici
 tors amendment To make all the coun
 ty solicitors in the State elective by th
 people, Mir Arnold said, was a danger
 ous thing. The counties he said, should | be left to decide whether the county so | licitors should be eiected. In some coun
 ties, he sald, 1t would pc inadvisable tt
 elect solicitors by a popular vote. Tn,
 criminal class, the men with whom tn,
 solicitors had to deal, would stand to | gether on the proposition of selecting th'
 prosecuting 1offlcer.
 l MT. Walker, of Madison said that al
 members of the Legislature recognized
 the demand by the people for elective of flcers. This demand, MT. Walker said
 had been felt by the Constitutional Con
 vention, which had left the question fol
 the Legislature to decide. The Consti
 tutional Convention, he said, had estab
 lished the precedent of making the Cir | cult Solicitors elective by the people ant unless there was a demand for appoint | i've solicitors the Speaker said the Leg1s l lature should make county solicitors cleo | tive.
 Mir. Maner of Montgomery, had no ob
 jection to any County having its Solici
 tor elected if the people wanted it, bu