The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01

lative and judicial departments to praneh courth9uses.
 To extend the city limits of Hefiin.
 To extend the corporate limits or tne city of Selma
 MT London offered a joint resolution providing for extending the recess to January 1.
 The senate non-concurred in the house resolution on recess committee, ana the house insisted and appointed Messrs' Walker, Bankhead and Benners com mittee of conference.
 On the revenue bill the house concurreo in some senate amendments and insisted on some others, and the senate coneurrea and tho bill went 10 the enrolling elefk about , D. m.
 THE SENATE.
 The senate today confirmed nominations sent in by the governor as follows;
 For trustee of the department or archives and history from the first dis trict, term ending January l, lsO9' Peter J. Hamilton of Mobile; for the second district, ending at the same tlme' Jet- ferson M. Falkner for the same term' ex offico, Gov. William D. Jelks'
 The revenue bill was concluded by noon.
 The section of the revenue bill taxing oil dealers 5000 was stricken out in the bill as finally agreed on and supsutute adopted, which leaves an inspection tax of three-fourths of a cent gallon on all Illuminating oil Two-thrds ot the pro ceeds go to the state and one-third to Auburn college, where the lists are to be made The state chemist who is professor of chemistry at Auburn Is placed In charge of the inspection and tests oil, which must stand a test of 13O. It IS estl- mated that the receipts will approach $2O, GOO.
 The amendment of MT. Dunn exempting crop mortgages from the tax on mort gages was reconsidered and withdrawn, as 1t was discovered that 1t left these mortgages alone subject to the regular state and county rate.
 MT. Woolf introduced a joint resolution providing for a session on next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, followed by a recess to July. It went to the committee on rules.
 The bill providing for the appointment Of the Anniston solicitor and payment or his salary of $210O out of the state treas ury was opposed by Mir Powell, MT. Bos- tick and others, and defended by MT. Blackmon, and went over unGer Ire
 Number of Bills Passed.
 A large number of house bills were passed as fast as the clerk could call the roll. Among them were the following; To reduce the state tax rate to 65 cents; to increase the salary of the land clerk in the auditors office from $1200 to $1500; to regulate the Walker county fine and forfeiture fund; to establish a dispensary at Gordon; to ratify the contracts and proceedings under which the jail and courthouse were built at Bay Minette to ratify the election of county commission CTS and county superintendents; to in- crease the salary of clerk in the treas urer's office from $l2O0 to $150O; to extend the corporate limits of Tuscaloosa; to re- euire railroads entering Mobile to build a union depot; to provide a clerk for the secretary of state and to increase the sal ary from $10O0 to $500; to extend the cor porate limits of Elba; to abolish the county court of Clay county; creating two new staff officers for colonels of in- fantry.
 Senate Afternoon.
 There was strong but futile effort made at the afternoon session of the sen- ate to take up the general election law. Many senators said that various munich pal and dispensary elections were to be held before the reconvenlng of the ses- sion in September, and election machinery was needed. The sentiment that so im- portant a measure as the one providing election machinery for the state for at least four years should not be too hastily considered prevailed. An effort was then made to take up the house bill increasing the appropriation for the Normal schools at Troy, Florence and Jacksonville but it was carried over un- til after the recess.
 The senate voted concurrence in the conference committees report on the gem eral revenue bill. The vote was 21 to 8.