The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-27
Plan is to Adjourn Friday
 or Saturday. MUCH WORK WAS DONE House Passes Bill for C0difica- ton Commissioner. He is to Be Paid $1o,ooo and Will Be Elected by q Jolnt ses-
 sion of the Two
 Houses.
MUCH WORK WAS DONE

With the end of the session of 1908 1T
 light, the Legislature has practically
 tgreed upon program for the last three
 working days, with a final adjournment Friday or Saturday next.
 The House and Senate adjourned at | / o'clock last night until 9:30 o'clock Tues day morning Tuesday and Wednesday
 will be working days and Thursday will
 be an off day to allow the clerks tc catch up with the records. It may be tha, Friday will be devoted to the same pur' pose. leaving Saturday as the final day of the session.
 In the discussion of the resolution ad- 5ourning the Legislature tomorrow, MT Lusk of Marshall, one of the economists and who has heretofore been objecting to adjournment, said that it was possible that Thursday and Friday night would have to be given over to the completion Of the record of the House. He declared that 1t would be better for the State to bear the expense of a days extra ses- sion than to have errors or inaccuracies in the records made through haste and hurry.
 Yesterday was the last day on which House bills could regularly pass the Sem ate or Senate bills regularly pass the House. The door of oportunity was not, however closed on bills still on the Call endar of the House in which they orig mated.
 House bills will be passed early in Tues days session. so they can be sent over to the Senate for first reading with a chance for final passag con the last day. The same method of procedure will be followed in the Senate
 For Codification of Laws.
 The House yesterday passed the bill for the codification of the Alabama laws. Tn doing so it complied with one of the duties placed upon 1t by the Constitution. The bill provides for a Codifying Commits sioner, to be elected by the House and Senate in joint session. An effort was made to have the bili so amended that the Commissioner should be appointed by the Governor MT. Callahan of Morgan. advocated the amendment. but the House refused to change the bill.
 The hill carries with it an approprie~ tion of s1O.0e0 for the work which must be completed within three years For this desirable plum there may be sevs eral candidates. In the gossip about the Capitol yesterday it was said that prob ably the names of Judge J. J. Mayfield of Tuscaloosa, and ex-Attorney General W. L. Martin of Montgomery. would be presented.
 A joint session of the Legislature will be held Tuesday or Wednesday to select the Commissioner.
 The Hall anti-foreign corporation Dill was killed in the House after 1t had passed the Senate by unanimous vote. It was a sweeping measure. The bill put all foreign corporations out of business fin Alabama, with the exception of rail- road, insurance and telegraph companies. The object was to make all foreign cor porations doing business in this State or ranize under Alabama laws. The bill met with but slight favor in the House.
 Mir. Walker of Madison. declared that the bill would make Alabama "a Korea "a hermit kingdom" It was indefinitely postponed.
 An unsuccessful effort was made to get I'D the anti-trading stamp bill at the night session. The bill forbids trading stamp companies from doing business in Ala bama. It is endorsed by many local mer- chants and a committee from the Com mercial and Industrial Association has been urging its passage.
 Mir. Blackburn of Jefferson, endeav- ored to get the bill up, but objection was interposed and the bill is still on the Cal endar.