The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-11
Capt Dan WaIden's Bill is Passed by an Almost
 Unanimous Vote
LEGISLATORS ANXIOUS ID
 PLEAD FOR ADOPTION
All Hearts Filled With Sympathy for Men Who BattIed for a Lost Cause. The Dispensary Bill
 for Today

Mont gomery, September 10.-(Special)- With their hearts filled with love and sympathy for the brave and noble old men who fought so gallantly for a cause they held sacred and believed to be right the members of the lower house of the legislature today voted to make the wan ing days of the indigent veterans more comfortable by providing for them home.
 It was by an almost unanimous Vote that the Walden bill passed, providing for state control of the Jefferson-Falhner soldiers home at Mountain Creek appro~ priating s25OOO for more buildings, and granting an annual fund of s125 each for the support of the inmates of the home. Capt Dan Walden led the fight for the bill, If fight it may be called.
 All Anxious to Plead.
 When the measure came up 1t was evil dent that there were to be hot contests between the members as to which could first gain the floor for plea for the pur- chase and sustenance of the home. The only apparent regret occasioned by the passage of the measure was that many of the members did not secure an oppor- tunity to blow off the surplus steam.
 Captain Jeff Faulkner, the founder of the home that bears his name, was in the gallery to listen to the debate on tue bill, and in his long career in legislative matters, it is doubted if the success of any measure has so thrilled his big heart as the passage of this bill to provide for his old comrades a home. The passage of this bill was the only feature of the house sessias of exceptional importance.
 Senate Spends Busy Day.
 The senate spent by far the busiest day of the session. It concluded consider ation of the municipal corporations bill and passed 1t at o'clock The senate recess committee bill was considered, and as 1t is very voluminous measure, to finish it in a day is regarded as extra ordinary The b -'--nd by sec- tons and occa crest by members of bo nd third house. The m the meas ure as heretoft not ma terially change
 F ad7y.
 The house g nees @ Furnishing some sure encHs5a fin row. It will in an indirect way take up for considera- tion the Werner dispensary bills The house temperance committee at a meet ing last night adversed the bill by a vote of Il to 1. The bill was supported by former State Senator Moody of Tusca- loosa. the originator of the dispensary idea in Alabama but the opposition led by ReDreSPpfatiVa Ria aclxhiirn nf Iaffaroo, had an unexpected easy victory.
 It only requires a majority vote to take from the adverse calendar in the house. so the action by the house tomorrow is looked forward to with greatest interest The vote is likely to be close.
 It is understood that should the house decline to place the bill on the favorable calendar tomorrow a new bill will be in- troduced differing from the Werner bill mainly in that it provides for an elec- tion on the dispensary question upon the petition Of twenty-five per cent of the qualified electors of a county.
 To Rearranes Circuits.
 The house judiciary committee tonight decided upon a report for rearranging the judicial circuits of the state. The proposed bill presented by MT. Lusk ere ates three new circuits. the three new ones being maze up from the various other circuits. This is the proposed plan: First circuit-Choctaw, Clarke Marengo Monroe; second, Butler, Lowndes Cone cuh, Crenshaw. Escambia; third, Barbour, Bullock, Dale, Lee, Russell; fourth, Bibb Dallas, Hale, Perry Wilcox; fifth, Cham bers, Coosa Macon, Randolph, Tallapoo- sa; sixth, Fayette, Greene, Lamar. Pick ems, Sumter. Tuscaloosa; seventh, Cal houn. Cleburne. Clay, Shelby. Talladega; eighth, Cullman. Lawrence Morgan; ninth. Blount. Etowah, St. Clair; tenth, Jefferson; eleventh. Colbert, Franklin. Marion, Lauderdale; twelfth, Co <. -ov- ington, Geneva, Houston. Henry, Pike; thirteenth Baldwin, Mobile Wasfi 9ton fourteenth Walker Winston, %hth, Autauga, Chiffon. Fillmore, Mo. lery; sixteenth. Madison, Limestone; Z. sigen- teenth. DeKalb, Cherokee, Jackson. Mar- shall.
 The morning session of tho. opened with prayer by the Re :, Elliott. Eighty-three members W S ent.
 There were but few bills ntr duced | on the roll call. ( | Mr. Bankhead was on hand wt.s In other effort to get a steering committee 1 to especially urge the passage o-.hnport- | ant general bills. He of a lesolu- | ton naming the chairman che vario,s. house committees as special comr { C ! to go over the calendar, and select lch i general bills as they may deem e e.ta ! est importance and report then the | house. the same to have priority over all l other bills. i MT. Goldsmith ofs Iewnde- ; intellectual attenl |, i peal I the tax on Il se the ! house, 4 a.v The ne tsa pt. wss vs ST os me ne to MT. Goldsmith, he - ? earnestly | endeavoring to get r sAead so l far failed. He, thei S-y moved that | the house lnstructs the nr sttee to re- port the bill at it's next ! eting.
 Chairman Simpson g. 1 Chairman Simpson of the ways and | means committee explained that his com | mittee was not trying to hold the bill. | but recognizing it's importance, it had | with several other bills bearing upon | the same subject been referred to a l special committee to investigate and re- port back as they thought best The