The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-11
HOUSE MAKES PROVISION
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resolution raising special committee to consist of the chairmen of the several committees of the House to examine the calendar and report back the general bills of the most importance which bills were to have priority on the calendar upon the adoption of the committee's report. The resolution went to the Committee on Rules.
 Goldsmith Asks for Bill. Mir. Goldsmith of Lowndes. sent to the clerks desk a written motion which was read to the House. This motion instruct ed the Committee on Ways and Means to report back to the House House bill TIT which exempts mortgages and eol- vent credits from the special tax put upon them at the winter session. The bill, said MT. Goldsmith. had been introduced in the House on the first days session. It had since then been before the Ways and Means Committee and there were no prospects for a report from the committee. although only seventeen days of the session remained. He would now ask the House. he said to force the committee to report the bill. He had port from the committee. The bill was, he said, of too much importance to be allowed to sleep in the committee. In reply to MT. Goldsmith. Chairman Simpson of the Ways and Means Com mittee said:
 ' Committee is Defended. "The gentleman got on his ear too soon. There are several bills before the committee germane to each other. They have been referred to subcommittee of three members. Now. if the House wants these bills thrown back into the House in crude state. the committee will do f1o xxyo nta fho ly digested the committee will do 1t. MT. Thomas of Chambers, as a member of the Committee on Ways and Means, said he desired to say that there was no disposition on the part of the committee to stifie the bill. The committee was etv- ing all due consideration to it. Mir. Goldsmith insSted on his motion. The bill, he said had been given at first to a member of the committee to pass upon, who was opposed to it. He had, he said, after five days effort succeeded in getting the bill back to the Ways and Means Committee from which 1t was referred to a subcommittee of three. The motion to force a report from the committee was lost. ayes, g; nays. fl. Amending Soldiers Bill. The bill amending the act for the relief of Confederate veterans met with some opposition. The bill which was introduc- ed by MT. Blackburn of Jefferson ex- tended the time in which Confederate soldiers and their widows may make proof. The bill provided that where an old soldier or the widow were unable to make proof for the years of 1901 and 1902 they could now do so.
 Mir. Walden of Morgan opposed the bill. He declared that it allowed those who made such proof to take from the pension fund of 1904 pensions for the proceeding years. He was opposed to turning all these applicants on next years pension funds for past pensions. The law authorized them to come in regularly for the pensions.
 A similar view of the bill was taken by MT. Simpson of Lauderdale. MT. Blackburn defended his bill and showed from communications that his bill was favored by Camps of Confederate Veterans. The bill was passed by a vote of 5S to 15.
 Regulating Automobiles.
 The bill regulating the operation of automobiles and locomobiles on the public roads of Alabama came up in It's regular place on the calendar. The bill provides for the registration of all auto mobiles in Alabama and 1t requires all motor vehicles or automobiles to come to stop alongside the road not less than fifty yards away on meeting a vehicle drawn by a horse or mule. There was no opposition to the measure and 1t was passed easily.
 The bill of Mir. Foster of Tuscaloosa to prevent stock from running at large in cities and towns of 5000 inhabitants was next passed by a vote of 62 ayes to g nays.
 General Road Law.
 MT. Goldsmith, Chairman of the Com wit la
 secured unanimous consent to have called
 up out of it's regular order on the cal- endar the general road law, which had been favorably reported during the win
 ter session.
 The basis of the law, explained Mir.
 Goldsmith, was that it authorized the
 Boards of County Commissioners to levy special property tax for road purposes.
 The original bill, upon which the meas
 ure under consideration was founded, was
 prepared and endorsed by the State Good
 Roads Association. It was understood and appreciated by the Committee, said
 MT. Goldsmith. that a road law which
 would be satisfactory for one county would not work we'll in another. Condi-
 tiohs in one county would be entirely different from conditions in another county.
 MT. hankhead of Walker, offered an
 amendment providing that the law should not supersede county stock laws now in operation unless desired by the county.
 The House adopted the amendment
 An amendment declaring that the law should not interfere with the present road apportionment, requiring each male resi-
 dent to labor not more than ten days on the public roads was also adopted.
 MT. GloVer of Greene, offered an amendment providing that a man could
 be excused from road duty upon the pay ment of $5 to the County Treasurer. The amendment was lost for want of a quo- rum The hour for adjournment arrived
 before the consideration of the bill was completed
 HOUSE AFTERNOON SESSION.