The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-03

 ENDS TONIGHT Much Work is to Be Done Today. BANK BILL COMES UP Senate to Consider Circuit
 Court Measure. Municipal Code Bill and Fill >Increas- ing Number of Supreme Court Justices are Among Un- finished Business.
BANK BILL COMES UP

In the House and Senate to-day, the last of the legislative session of 1903, will be filled with interest and with work. The day in both houses will begin with a legislative fight and end In song and good fellowship.
 The half humorous, the half pathetic scenes that characterize the close of every session of the Legislature will be re-enact- ed. As the hour of midnight approaches. the members. waiting for the clerks to bring up the records. will gather in the House and Senate and join is, tl,e old familiar songs. The old favorites "cod Be With You Till We Meet Again." ana Home, Sweet Home'' have never been. leff out of these fmpromptu concerts. Tn mock sessions the cares that have cam kered the legislative days will be laid aside. for the uninterrupted reign Of good fellowship
 Task Before Legislature.
 But long before midnight it Is expected that both bodies will complete the tasks that were left unfinished when the two houses recessed. Wednesday night. The House will resume it's stormy considera-s ton of the State banking bill and the Senate will renew its no less stormy fight over the court redistricting bilI The House. too, will in all probability, pass the pony circuit" bill in which Montgomery county is so deeply inter- ested. The Senate has before it the bin adding two members to the Supreme Court of the State. A last effort will be ; made to have the Senate agree to the Walker municipal corporation bill. If the effort should fail the Legislature will ad- journ without having passed a bill on that important subject.
 To-day is important. too. in considera- ton of the fact that it Is the last Iegisla- tive day for four years The constitution provides only for sessions every four years, and from to-day there will be a lapse of four years, unless some emer- gency should induce the Governor to call the Legislature together in extra session Never before in the history of Alabama. has there been so long time without | legislation.
 To Consider Bank Bill. In the House the State banking bill will come up this morning after the prelimi- nary exercises. The bill has already con- suned practically all of one legislative day and part of another. The contest has l now narrowed down to a choice between ] the Simpson substitute and the Lusk | substitute for the Senate bill The Simp-. son substitute is favored by the friends of the original bill. which provides strong and exact regulations for State banks. The Lusk bill Is favored by those who | fought the original bill until they he- | lieved defeat was inevitable. The Lusk
 
 l vides no penalties for it's violation and 1t also fixes an exact time at which the i, banks may report to the State. The Lusk substitute is favored by the opponents of State banking legislation as the better for State banks. The friends of the origi- nal bill are confident however. that the Simpson substitute will be passed. Other Bills on Calendar. The House has as a special order the ~.ll providing for the reprint of certain volumes of the reports of the Alabama Supreme Court. This bill, If it Is called warm fight. There are no other bills of dar with perhaps rne exception of the eral bills. but no member appears to be anxious for their passage.
 It is safe to say that all local bills on the House calendar and all on the Senate calendar will be passed before the midnight adjournment. Every rep resentative and every senator will be giv- en a chance to call up and have passed. his local bills.
 The Jefferson county delegation of the House and Senate, did not go home. but remained in Montgomery throughout the two days recess. There is a feeling at the Capitol that the Governor may veto the bill which makes the State pay the salaries of all the Jefferson county judges. The Jefferson law makers are thought to have remained in Montgomery to save the bill, if 1t was in danger.
 Nearly all members of the Legislature who spent the recess at their homes re- turned to Montgomery last night.