The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-20
.On First Vote Tie Resulted and DG Cunningham De-
 cided the Bills Fate
HOT TIME IN BOTH
 SENATE AND THE HOUSE
Compromise Railroad Commission Bill Passes By Large MajorIty-Bank- head and Lusk Engage In
 Rather Heated coIoquy.

Montgomery February 9.-(Special.)- The senate voted tonight against tho osteopathy bill
 The house passed the elective railroad commission bill. voted to go to Mobile Mardi Gras, talked on a general stock law bill and made considerable progress with the general revenue bill. | This Is the record for, by long odds, the livest and most exciting day of the present session of the Alabama legisla- | ture.
 The debates were at times heated, this | especially being the case in the senate. while the bill to legalze the practice of osteopathy in the state was under con- sideration.
 This bill was taken up at 11;30 o'clock this morning and the senators talked on it until S:30 tonight before a final vote could be reached. Few times in the his- tory of the upper house has 1t had before it measure that has caused the hard, stubborn fight as this bill aroused. The lobby was strong on both sides and when the bill came up this morning both the friends and opponents of the measures were in fear and trembling" The measure was fought by the medical society of the state and first and last It seems that almost every physician in the state either has written or telegraphed his senator to oppose the measure. M
 Mrs. Ligon Led Fight.
 Mrs. Greenwood Ligon, an osteopath of Mobile, and 1t may be justly stated, one of the brightest women in the entire south, was the principal champion of the | measure. She had the assistance of a dozen or more osteepaths. but the strong | Influence for the bill Is very largely due | to the masterly way in which Mrs. Ligon handled the case.
 In committees she met in debate and easily held her own, some of the most learned doctors in the state and as a worker in the lobby she proved herself par excellence. After talking on the mat ter until all the senators grew weary, the matter was finally brought to a vote and the result on the first test was a tie-seventeen to seventeen.
 This gave Lieutenant Governor Gun ningham a first opportunity to vote in the session, the constitution prohibiting h'm from acting except in cases of tie. The bill passed the house early last week after a hard struggle, and when it reached the senate 1t caused a hard fight
 The house bill sought to create a state board to examine applicants to practice osteopathy and sought to license the twelve osteopaths now in the state 10 practice without standing an examina- ton. The majority of the committee re- ported this bill back to the senate with out recommendation while minority rc- port providing that all osteopaths shall stand an examination as other doctors. Senator Goldsby of Mobile led the fight for the house bill and Senator Harrison of Lee led for the minority report. About half of the members made speech for or against The first test vote came on a motion by Senator NeSmith to table the report of the minority.
 The First Test Vote.
 This vote came at o'clock. It resulted as follows:
 Noes-Acre. Arlington, Bullock Frazer, Harrison. Hipp, Hurst, Johnston, Ken nedy, Long, Lynne Morrow, NorWood' Powell, Screws, Spraggins. Thomas-lI
 Ayes-Blackmon Bostick, Castleberry' Craig, Dunn, Goldsby, Hall, Hogue, Lan- caster, NeSmith, Norman, Oliver, Rog- CTS. Smith, Spencer, Stone, Woln-l7
 Lieutenant Cunningham cast the decid- ing vote against taoling, and for an hour and a half the minority tried hlibuster- ing tactics, but without effect, for Sena- tors Spencer and Lancaster voted with the majority after the second ballot on dilatory motions and the substitute for the house bill was finally passed, 20 tc 7.
 Railroad Commission Bill.
 The house did not have as warm time over the Starr-Waddell compromise cleo tive railroad commission bill as was an- ticipated. It had been agreed between x.,ta, ha m morning that there should be no further hlibustering today, but even at that 1t required two hours to pass the bill Many members attempted to have various amendments adopted. but in majority of cases they failed. There was an excit- ing passage between MT. Bankhead and Mr. Lusk at the close Of the debate. MT. Bankhead had offered an amendment and before he had a change to even explain 1t, MT. Lusk moved to table it. This brought a harsh and severe criticism from MT. Banhead of Lusk in particular and the majority in general for the manner in which they were "railroadlng' the bill, regardless of the merits Of amendments.
 MT. Lusk's retort was equally severe, saving that MT. Bankhead had resorted to more flibustering tactics than he could tell of in his allotted time
 Final Vote.
 Following is the final vote on the pas- sage of the bill
 Yeas-Almon, Ballard, Bankhead, Ben ners. Barnes, Blackburn, Brown (Cle- burne), Byars, Cook, crum, Cunningham, Curry, Davis, Deloney. DuBose Edwards, Elliott, Espy.- Fletcher. Foster Pike), Foster tTuscaloosa), Franklin, Frazier, Fulton. Glover. Goldsmith. Gray, Haley, Hammer, Handley, Hardie,s Hickman, Johnson (Coosa), Johnson Perry), John son (RusselD Joiner, Kelly Killen. La- nier, Lee Butler) Leigh (Escambia). London, Lyman, Lusk, Mills, Minge, Me- Creary, McClusky. Mcdonald, McTyre, Newman, Parker. Peters, Pilley Poole, Posey, Powell, Preston, Pugh, Fucker. Rushton, Scheussfer, Searcy, Shafer. Sig lin, Starr, Strother, Swindall, Thach, Thomas, Thompson. Waddell. Walden, Walker, Ward. Warren, Watts, Wireless, Wilkinson, Williams (Covington). Wood s1.
 Nays-The speaker. Boeart Byrne. Cal