The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-15
elective by the people.

elective by the people.
 Mr. Arnold of Calhoun, opposed the amendment and MT. Walker of Madison supported it It was opposed by Messrs. Maner of Montgomery and Goldsmith of Lowndes. who spoke in opposition to elective County Solicitors.
 Messrs. London, Thompson and Black burn addressed the Committee in favor of the proposition.
 The amendment which had been pro- posed by MT. Thompson and which makes all County Solicitors elective by a vote of the people. was adopted by a vote of 5S ayes to l2 nays.
 Mr. Hoffman of Mobile, offered an amendment providing that the general law should not be operative in counties for which local bills might provide for ap- pointive solicitors.
 MT. London moved to table the amend ment but the Chairman ruled that such motion was out of order as 1t could not be made in the Committee of the Whole.
 Second Appeal from Decision.
 T appeal from the ruling of the Chair" exclaimed MT. London.
 The Committee refused to sustain the Chairman. the vote being, ayes & nays. 8.
 Speaker Tunstall on the fioor moved that the amendment be indefinitely post poned. He did this. he said, to allow a full discussion of the question.
 MT. Hoffman spoke for his amendment and Mir. Thompson addressed the House against 1t.
 The amendment was indefinitely post poned by a vote of 8 to r.
 Mir. Lyman of Shelby, offered an amendment providing for the election of members of County Boards of Revenue and Courts of County Commissioners by the voters in the districts from which they come. The amendment was later withdrawn.
 An amendment providing that no two of the Railroad Commissioners to be elected by the people shall come from the same Congressional District was offered by MT. Parker of Cullman and adopted by the Committee.
 An amendment by Mir. Cunningham of Jefferson. to make convict inspectors and mining inspectors elective was voted down and the same fate awaited an amendment offered by Mir. Blackburn rel ative to the terms of office of the Rail- road Commissioners.
 The Committee at 11:16 arose and re- ported the election bill to the House. The House appeared to be undecided as to what to do with the bill. It was first or dered to a third reading but was later | referred with all pending amendments to | the Committee on Privileges and Elec- | tions.
 Confederate Pension Bill.
 House bill 3Ss by MT. Walden of Nor gan, for the further relief of needy Con- federate veterans and their widows came up as the special paramount order at 12 o'clock. The bill carried an addi- tional appropriation of $100.000
 MT. Walden eloquently advocated his measure. He paid stirring tribute to his old comrades. A duplicate of this bill he said, he had introduced and had passed the House of the last General Assembly. In looking around the House l he said he did not see the fact of any man who opposed the bill then. That bill, he said, had been pigeon-holed in the | Senate by the chairman of the Finance | and Taxation Committee. That gentle man. he said. had been a candidate for | a State office but he was not success | ful.
 | Ample assurance, he said. had been given on the floor of the House that the | treasury was able to stand the appro- | prtation.
 In discussing the Capitol bill MT. Wal den said Mir, Goodwin, of Montgomery, | whom he believed spoke as the mouth piece of the Governor, had stated that the treasury was able to stand an appropria- | ton of $250,OO0. The House. he said, had not passed the $250. 900 appropriation but 1t had passed a $l5O,0Oo appropriation. He | held that 1t was established that there was enough money in the treasury to stand the appropriation.
 Walden Lauds the Guard.
 He had, he said, cheerfully voted for the bill increasing the appropriation for the support of the Alabama National Guard. He was proud of the Guard which he called "a magnificent body of patri- ouc young men" He only regretted. he said, that as soldiers of the Confederacy had not ha &their splendid equipment. If they had had the splendid eQuip- ment of the Alabama National Guard we would not be here now asking for an appropriation under the stars and stripes" declared MT. Walden with fer yer.
 Alabama, he declared, was not doing | near so well for the care of its suffering | Confederate soldiers as Its sister States | of Georgia and Tennessee. He com pared the sums paid by those States with Alabama's allowance to the blind sol- | diers-'the paltry sum of $3720" He said that the State would not long rest ! federate soldiers who had defended 1t. Flight hundred were stricken from the pension rolls last year and twelve hun dred more will be stricken from the rolls this year., said Mir. Walden, pathos In his voice.
 He closed with an eloquent presentation l of the claims of the Confederate soldiers upon the State.
 Davis a Crank About Vets.
 Mir, Davis. of Etowah, said that Ala | bama justly owed debt of gratitude to the Confederate soldiers. The Confeder- ate soldier, he said. was fast passing | into history and there was not much time | to discharge the debt. He had. he said | with one exception opposed an appropria- | tlon bill, out he was a crank on the sub ject of the Confederate soldier and the State should care for the needy if 1t had to go into debt to do so. | MT. McClusky, of Lamar spoke eff. fectively and forcibly for the bill
 This bil." declared MT. McCluskey lis an emergency call upon the State"
 The old soldiers, he said, were not peg l gars. Their representatives in the Leg islature were asking only for their jus dues.
 He spoke for the rank and file of th, great army Of the Confederacy, the mer who had made possible the fame of Lee of Jackson and of the Alabama heroe. whose portraits were hung within tn, halls of the State Capitol. These mer were old and decrepit now and if there was ever a time to extend them aid tba, time was now.
 Kelly Never was Whipped.