The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-12
Appropriation for Boys School
 Passed by House.
Gallery Paclked With Ladies Wno Applauded Advocates of the Measure-Senator Rodgers Defends Constitutional
 Provision for Quad-
 riennial Sessions.

The Alabama Legislature will adjourn at the olose of the forty-fourth working day of the session to reconvene the nrst Tuesday in September to work out the re mainins sixteen days allotted to 1t by the Constitution. Both houses took acuon yesterday upon the question Of ad1ourn- rnent and 1t is now definitely settled
 The Leaisiature will adjourn February S and 1t will reconvene September S Committees of the House and the Senate will be appointed to sit and work during a mart of the recess in framing the more important general bills. These committees will be charged with the especial duty or preparing general bills which will em- body the important recommendations con- tained in the Constitution, most Of which the Legislature has not as yet touched upon.
 The joint resolution declaring 1t to be the sense of the House and Senate that the Legislature recess for several months did not contain provision as to the ap- pointment of committees to sit during the recess, but the debates in both houses showed that 1t was the intention of the leaders of both bodies to have these com- mittees named and put to work. It was frankly stated in the debates that this was the only plan by which the exigen- cies of the situation could be met.
 The adoption of the report of the joint special committee named to consider the advisabflity of recessing was attended by prolonged debates in both houses The greater part of the morning session of the Legislature was taken up in discussing adjournment. There was division in both houses on the question. the leaders as rule standing for the adjournment The joint resolution passed the Senate by vote of 24 to 8 and 1t was adopted by the House by a vote of 59 to 3s.
 Appropriation for Boys School.
 Aside from the adoption of the ad- journment resolution the proceedings in the House were notable because of the passage of the bill appropriating $3o.oOo out of the convict funds of the State for the support and maintenance of Ghe Ala bama Industrial School for Boys. This school Is the institution at East Lake designed to care for and educate boys in unfortunate and evil surroundings who may become criminals.
 The Alabama Federation of Women's Clubs has become deeply interested in this institution and the members of the Fed eration, which is now in session in Mont gomsry, packed the gallery of the House rom the railing to the wall
 The bill had been made the special or der for Il o'clock, that the ladies might be present in the gallery on its final pas- sage.
 They manifested lively interest in the debate. The eloquent periods of the House speakers were repeatedly applaudd by the fair onlookers, regardless of the Speakers gavel. The audience was enthusiastic for speakers were repeatedly applauded by the ladies impressed this fact upon the mem bers of the House.
 Ladies Rebuked Davis.
 The speeches were much to the liking of the ladies inasmuch as every speaker who took the floor urged the passage of the bill. Not one voice was raised in op- position to the measure. Only one vote, that of Representative Hubert T. Davis of Etowah, was cast against the bill When he uttered the word mo" at the call of his name a groan almost of horror and anguish went up from the fair ten ants of the gallery.
 The House made but slow progress in sts afternoon session. Three bilIls only were passed. A greater part of the time was spent in the discussion of a bill ere ating a Court of Law and Equity in Nor gan County. The consideration of the bill was en1ivened by a controversy be- tween Mir. Lusk of Marshall and Repre- sentative George H. Parker who was tenn porarily occupying the chair. Mir. Lusk claimed that tho bill was a general meas ure as 1t appropriated money out of the treasury to pay the Judge and Solicitor and 1t should not therefore be considered at an afternoon session.
 The chairman ruled against him and MT. Lusk appealed from the ruling to the House. The House however. sustained the chair by an overwhelming vote