The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-20
THE CHAIRMAN EXPLA AIMED
Legislature Has Recessed Un-
 til Tuesday Morning.
Senate Measure Appropriating Ad- diticnal Money to Old Soldiers Passed by House and 4oss to
 the Governor.

The House Of Representatives yester- day compelled the Committee on Bank ing and Insurance to release its grasp on State banking legislation. By close vote the majority forced the committee to report to the House the Senate Dill providing for an examination of State banks and for a State Examiner of banks.
 Under duress the committee handed in the State banking bill at the afternoon session without recommendation.
 A majority of the members of the House appeared to think that the com mittee was blocking bank legislation. The committee has had before 1t eleven diff ferent bills relative to the examination of State banks and the creation of the off, fee of State bank examiner. None of these bills has been reported by the com mittee While 1t is not said that all these bills were killed by the committee, the friends of the measures were uneasy and anxious. They believed that majority e the committee was opposed to the State balm legislation.
 Bill Reached House Thursday.
 The Senate bill came over to the House Thursday and was referred to the Com mittee on Banking and Insurance. Devel- opments yesterday showed that the sup porters> of the State banking bill were standing pat. patiently waiting for the Senate bill The Senate bill having arriv- ed and having been referred to the Bank ing Committee the friends of the State banking legislation made their successful move.
 Chairman Glover of the committee made an earnest defense of the committee He showed that since the arrival of the Sen ate bill that his committee had not had time to carefully consider the matter. The House, he said, had held three ses- sions daily and the committee had not the time to have sittings to hear from the large number interested in the bill.
 The motion to force the committee to report was made by Representative J. K. Thompson of Bibb. He said the commit- tee had done nothing with the banking bills and that 1t was time some action was taken.
 Clever Was Sarca stic. c,s
 T want to say" said Mir. Glover, that there has been as much gas wasted be- fore that committee as on the floor of the House.
 'I know it." said N.. Thompson, "and that's the object of this motion, to shut off the supc!y of gas.
 MT. 0lOV6I Sdlu lti6he HE had before it eleven bills relating to the subject One of the bills, he said. had twenty-nine typewritten pages with 192 sections.
 Think of that" said Mir. Glover, lone hundred and ninety-two sections and all of them less interesting than the poorest novel"
 The committee. he said had carefully and thoroughly considered the bill It had no desire to hurriedly pass upon matter of such grave importance The commit tee he explained, had had no time since the Senate bill came over with the House having three sessions daily.
 Mir. Rushton of Crenshaw said that the chairman of the committee had made a plain statement of the case. It would be more satisfactory. he said. to let the mat ter go over and the committee pass upon the bill.
 MT Fletcher of Madison made an earn est plea for some action. The constitu- ton. he said, made it the plain duty of the Legislature to paes a tate bank ing law. The Legislature. he said. should certainly comply with the mandate of the constitution.
 Mir Goodwin of Montgomery supported the motion to force report. He said the chairman might be willing to have re- port made, but that the committee might differ with him. He believed that the com mittee, if left alone. would do nothing for banking legislation.
 Schuessler Urged Action.
 MT. Gloucester, of Chambers, said the situation should be viewed from busi- ness standpoint. The House should do something and do something at once
 MT. Poole, of Marengo said that the committee had no desire to run counter to any of the mandates of the constitu- tion The committee had been inspired only by desire to thoroughly consider the matter.
 Mir. Scale of Sumter explained that the committee had no time 10 consider the Senate bill since it came over
 The Thompson motion was adopted, ayes 2S nays 25.
 The House yesterday passed the Senate hill for the further relief of Confeder- ate soldiers. The bill IS the alternative measure increasing the pension fund by $50O00 for the next two years, and by S1O0.000 in the succeeding two years If the Governor thought the money could be paid without the States having to bor- TOW 1t.