The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-10
HOUSE SPENT BUSY DAY
(continusd from rage one.l

| up. The bill makes 1t a misdemeanor, punishable by small fine. for any unau- tnorlxed person not member of the or der, to wear badge or pin of the Ma | sons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, or any similar organization. Mr. Goodwin said that the bill was desired to prevent fraud by persons who took advantage of members of secret fraterntttes by smen who would fraudulentiy wear the insignia | of son secret order.
 Will not your bill prevent girls from wearing their sweethearts' fraternity pins?' asked Mir. Simpson of Lsuderdaie. Why mo-" replied MT. Goodwin, ''the rule still obtains that girl is entitled to wear anything that belongs to her sweetheart"
 The bill was killed by the House. Priority for General Bills.
 Mir Bankhead of Walker renewed his resolution instructing the Rules Commit tee to select the general bills Of most importance to be placed on the calendar and given priority over all other bills on the calendar. He asked that the rules be suspended and that the resolution be put upon it's passage. He. had. he said introduced the day before similar reso- lution which had gone to the Committee on Rules. and from which nothing had been heard.
 He urged the necessity of such action as called for in his resolution. He point ed out that the House calendar was forty pages long and had on it 300 bills. It was a matter of fmpossibility. Mir. Bankhead declared. for the House to reach the end of the calendar before the session would end. He submitted that there were number of important general bills which should be placed on the calendar and considered at the earliest possible mo ment. 8
 Opposed by Thomas.
 Mir. Thomas of Chambers opposed the resolution. This resolution. he declared, put the House in the hands of the Rules Committee. which was sufficient reason why 1t should be defeated. The resolution was opposed by Mir Hoff- man of Mobile, who said that he had complete confidence in the judgment of the Committee on Rules He thought that it was too early to bind the House down as proposed by the resolution. which might be wisely adopted later in the session.
 The House refused to suspend the rules. and the resolution followed it's predeces. sor to the Committee on Rules.
 The vote by which House Bill 30e, the fraternity badge measure, was defeated was reconsidered on motion of Mir. Ben ners of Jefferson. Some of the members, he said, had voted against the bill under a misconception. The bill was amended 60 that the wilfui wearing of the badge or insignia of a secret order with the in- tent to deceive was made a misdemeanor. Thus amended the bill was passed.
 Precipitated a Debate.
 The bill making all fines and forfeitures payable only in the lawful money of the United States sprung a short debate. Messrs. Foster of Tuscaloosa Davis of Etowah and Kelly of Choctaw thought the bill unwise..
 Mir. Thomas of Chambers the author of the bill. said the measure was designed to build up the fine and forfeiture fund
 MT. Maner of Montgomery predicted that the Sill would be failure as the same plan had been tried in Montgomery County and the scripts of the County were practically worthless.
 The House did not like the bill and it was indefinitely postponed.
 In the same way House bill @ was got ten rid of. This bill gave ali County Com missioners in the State 8 per diem for their services. This increased these ofYi- cials' pay in most of the counties. The bill was killed by an indefinite postpone ment.
 Exemption of Cotton Mills.
 The Brown bill relieving newly erected cotton mills from taxation, was called up. The bill provided that all cotton mills and additions to cotton mills erected in the i've years following 1902 should be ex- empt from taxation for a period of ten years.
 MT. Brown of St. Clair explained that the bill was introduced to promote the erection of cotton mills in Alabama. It would be a great benefit to the farmers of the State, he said. when there were enough cotton mills in the State to con- sume all the cotton produced in Alabama. The farmers would get peter price for their cotton. This same plan. he said. had been tried in South Carolina and as a result cotton mills in that State used up air the cotton raised in that State. Tn South Carolina, he said. the price of cot ton was higher than 1t was In Alabama.