The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-19
RAILROAD COMMISSION BILL
 PASSED BY THE LOWER HOUSE
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(Continued from First Page) greater than their creator He warned the members that there might come a day of reckoning and it might be that the places that know some of the mem bers now might Know them no more forever, forever and forever!' Before he would join in with those who are chang ing front he would label his desk in box car letters ito let He came from the same county as Associate Commissioner Tunstall and he was his friend, and If Colonel Tunstall would offer for the joo before the people he would find no more ardent supporter than the speaker him. self Mir. Elliott's speech was delivered with force, and he was congratulated by his fellow members who occupy nearby seats.
 MT. Bogart of Jackson supported the bill, and the venerable member goaded those members who were speaking on yesterday so earnestly to have the legisla- ture reverse itself. but were today crying out against any reversal
 Mir Starr moved the previous question on the passage of the bill, which carried. The bill was passed; ayes 55, nays 26.
 The following is the vote in detail
 Ayes-Messrs. Speaker. Almon, Arnold, Arlington, Bankhead, Barnes, Benners. Bogart. Brown of Cleburne Brown of St. Clair Byars. Byrne, Callahan Cook, Delaney, Frazier. Fulton, Glover Goodwin, Gray, Handley, Hardie Hoffman, Johnson of Rus sell, Joiner, Kelly, Leigh of Escambia, Lowe, Layman, Lyons Maner. McCrary Mcdonald Parker Peters, Pilley, Poole, Posey, Pugh. Rich, Schuessler, Scale, Searcy Shafer. Siglin, Starr. Swindall, Thach, Thompson, Waddell Ward, War ren, Watts, Wiggins, Wilkerson, Will jams of Covington.-55.
 Nays-Messrs. Blackburn, Crum Cum ningham, Davis. DuBose Edwards, Elli- ott Fletcher. Franklin. Fulton, Gold smith, Hickman, James. Johnson of Coo sa, Johnson of Perry, Killen, Lusk, Rev. holds. Fucker, Strother, Thomas, Werner, Walker. Williams of Calhoun, Wood, Young.-26.
 Pairs were announced as follows, the first named in each case being opposed to the bill: Mir. Ballard and MT. Pilley, MT. Foster of Pike and MT. Epsey, MT. Haley and MT. McCluskey, MT. Powell and MT. Foster of Tuscaloosa, MT. Preston and MT. Newman.
 MT. Wood of Macon explained his vote, saying that he could see no reason for such a complete reversal of the house on the matter. that no such light had struck him. He thought this new conversion re- sembled very much that of Paul while en route to Damascus.
 A bill appropriating 5000 to pay certain fees to the solicitor of the thirteenth pudi- cial circuit was defeated. The special order for the hour was the consideration of the Lusk bill to rear range the judicial circuits of the state, and Mir. LusS was addressing himself to the subject when the hour of adjourn ment arrived.
 Afternoon Session.
 Mir. Lusk continued his argument for his bill at the afternoon session. telling of the crowded condition of the dockets in several circuits to show the creation of the three new circuits proposed to be necessary for the transaction of business.
 There was a little wrangle over the proposition to place Madison and Lime stone in one circuit MT. Thach of Lime stone was opposed to the new arrange ment for the reason, he said, that Lime stone was a small county, with about 2000 qualified voters while Madison had about 5000 and 1t would thus be possible for the larger county to dominate the smaller. MT. Walker opposed the amendment and his motion 10 table was adopted.
 Bills Provisions. Under the bill the state is divided into seventeen judicial circuits to be numbered and composed of counties as follows: t1fSt clrculI-CnOctdW, OlHTke, mdTenSO and Monroe.
 Second circuit--Butler, Conecuh, Cren- shaw, Escambia and Lowndes Third circuit-Barbour. Bullock. Dale, Lee and Russell
 Fourth circuit-Bibb, Dallas Hale, Per ry, and Wilcox.
 Fifth circuit-Chambers. Coosa, Macon, Randolph and Talapoosa. Sixth circuit-Fayette. Greene, Lamar, Pickens, Sumter. Tuscaloosa. Seventh circuit-Calhoun. Clay, Cle- burne. Shelby and Talladega. Eighth circuit-Cullman, Lawrence and Morgan.
 Ninth circuit-Blount, St. Clair and Et- owah.
 Tenth crcuit-Jefferson. Eleventh circuit-Colbert Franklin, Lauderdale and Marion. Twelfth circuit-Coffee, Covington. Ge- neva, Henry, Houston and Pike. Thirteenth circuit-Baldwin. Mobile and Washington.
 Fourteenth circuit-Walker and Win ston.
 Fifteenth circuit-Montgomery. Autau-