The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-18
HOUSE MORNING SESSION.
Another Resolution Providing For
 Night Work.

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 The Rules Committee through MT. Rich | of Mobile submitted favorable report on | the resolution of MT. Foster of Tuscaloosa | that general bills might be called up at | the afternoon session, provided notice I was given at the morning session Mir Thompson of Bibb submitted res
 olution providing for night sessions of the House to begin at 7:3O p. m and enc
 at 10 D. m. The resolution went to the | Committee on Rules.
 MT. Walden of Morgan presented res | olution asking the Commissioners Of Az | riculture and InduEtries for statement of his receipts for the present fertinzer | season.
 The Committee on Commerce and Com- | mon Carriers reported without recom-
 mendation the London resolution asking | the Governor not to appoint members or | the Railroad Commission while the elect
 i've Railroad Commission bill was pend-
 ing. A.. | Thoma sville dispensary bill from the ad-
 verse calendar. He moved that the bill be l taken from the adverse calendar ana De
 referred to the Committee of the Whole. | but the motion was opposed by his col | league. MT. Pugh.
 l MT. Poole declared that his people had | voted on the dispensary and they had fa-
 vored the establishment of one by vote | of five to one.
 The motion to take from the adverse
 calendar was, on motion of MT. Pugh, laid
 upon the table.
 MT. Starr of Dallas made the point of
 order that the special order for the hour
 was the consideration of the elective | Railroad Commission bill. MT. Simpson of Lauderdale contended
 that the general revenue bill should be | considered at that time.
 Speaker Tunstall, however, decided that
 the Starr bill should properly come up | for consideration.
 Starr Commission Bill. The House resolved itself into the Com I mittee of the Whole and Chairman Foster | of Tuscaloosa assumed the gavel an- | nouncing that the committee would con-
 sider the Starr elective Railroad Com
 mission bill.
 MT. Benners of Jefferson offered a sub stitute, which he said had been agreed
 upon by the friends and opponents of the | Starr bill. He asked that the substitute
 should be adopted to go on the calendar | with a favorable report and that its con | sideration be made the special order for | 3:30 o'clock this afternoon. l The Benners substitute Is similar in | many respects to the present law estab- fishing the Railroad Commission. Three sections only are different. The first is taken from the Starr bill and makes the | Commission elective by the people. 1 second section makes it mandatory l on the Commission to consider complaints. | The third section contains provisions of
 the waddell bill-that the Commission
 shall go into the courts to have its orders | enforced.
 The Committee of the Whole accepted
 the substitute and agreed to report it to | the House.
 After rising from the Committee of the | Whole the House took up the general
 stock law bill introduced by MT. Brown | of St. Clair.
 MT Goodwin of Montgomery made a | determined effort to get the House to con-
 slider the White House bill but he was
 unsuccessful. He asked that unanimous
 consent be given for the consideration of
 the bill It would, he said, relieve great
 deal Of tension.
 To Relieve Ladies' Anxiety. MT. Goodwyn's motion was seconded by
 MT. Callahan of Morgan. He said the la-
 dies interested in the bill had been at
 the Capitol for two or three weeks and
 their anxiety about the bill should be
 ended one way or the other. The House, | MT. Callahan said, should either vote
 down the bill or pass 1t. MT. Goodwyns motion to have the rules
 suspended that the bill might be taken | up was voted down.
 House bill T to provide elections to | prevent stock from running at large was | then taken up.
 Mir. Thomas of Chambers offered two amendments. One provided that the law
 should not interfere with stock law dis l tricts as at present constituted and the second amendment provided that the pe- | tition for a stock law should not have to
  | residents of the district. Mir. Thomas addressed the House in l favor of his amendments asking that the
 present stock law districts be not inter | fered with.
 MT. Lusk of Marshall, supported the | amendments of MT. Thomas. MT. Davis of Etowah, favored the mak- ing of districts by vote of the people. MT. Thompson of Bibb argued for the l substitute reported by the Committee. The substitute provided, he said that | when ten free holders should apply to | the Court of County Commissioners the | qualified voters of the district to be in | corporated.
 Kelly Interested in ButtermiIk. MT. Kelly of Choctaw. with his GUS tomary vigor, opposed the bill. Why, gentlemen, if you pass this bill
 County who will never drink another quart of buttermilk,' he declared. Its
 A good law for the rich man but bad
 law for the poor white man and the nig ger"
 MT. Blackburn of Jefferson. said that
 the Committee had reported the bill re- aliZing that the question was a live one and that there might be l05 different | opinions in the House. The bill was not
 perfect, he said. but it was as good as l could be put upon the statutes. | The petition of ten free holders to the
 Court of County Commissioners for a | StOCk law, ne Stl10, SnOulQ be considered
 as a complaint. The petitioners, he said | in effect complained that their property
 was being injured by stock running at | large. The Court, under the bill, should | grant the relief sought as part of it's | judicial functions.
 It was only right. MT. Blackburn ar gued, that the dissatisfied citizens should l bear the burden of building the fences. | MT. Curry Of Pickens. spoke for the | Committees substitute. He defended par | ticularly the section leaving the matter l with the free holders and the Court of | County Commissioners rather than to | qualified voters who might not own a | foot of land and who might have no in
 terest whatever in the matter.
 The "Ruination" of Sumter.
 MT. Scale of Sumter. said he thought | that the substitute was a good thing if l Section II was left out. If Section II was 1 left out he said, Alabama would have to
 fence the whole Mississippi line.
 If you require the inside people to
 keep up the fence," said MT. Scale, the
 districts will never grow. With Section | il in, the law will be the ruinatlon of my
 section of the country 1 MT. Lowe of Lawrence, said that his l position on the creation of stock law dis | tricts was that every man who was en- 1 titled to a vote on Governor and other | State officers should be entitled to vote | on the stock law districts.
 The House adjourned at i o'clock with
 the stock law bill pending. ss. Continued on Page Two.l ssa