The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-25
HOUSE AFTERNOON SESSION.
Maay Local Bills Received From the
 Senate.

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 The House. as soon as 1t convened. took up the consideration of a Senate mes- sage. which had been brought in at the morning session.
 MT. Lusk of Marshall took occasion tc give notice, to the House that he would to-day move to take from the calendar the bill prohibiting foreign corporations from doing business in Alabama.
 Nearly all the bills sent over from tht Senate with amendments were of lo cal nature. sf
 The Senate had. however. amended tht House bill providing for the redistrictinf of the school districts and for count, board of education. The Senate amend ment to the bill was not acceptable tt the House. and a conference committed was asked for.
 On that committee the speaker named Messrs. Arnold. Leigh and Joiner.
 Agricultural School Bill.
 The bill naming a general board o trustees for the district agriculture schools came up. As 1t passed the House it provided that the general board should consist of the Governor. the superintend ent of education the attorney general and the auditor. The Senate amended the bill so that two members of the board should be appoint. ed from the congressional districts in which the school is located.
 MT. Arnold of Calhoun opposed concur renee in the amendment. It was the pur- pose of the bill, said MT. Arnoud, to res move the schools from the local infiu- ences which had often initiated against their usefulness.
 Mir. Goodwin favored the Senate amendment. The districts. he declared. should have representation upon the Board. The people where the schools were located. he said. had contributed literally of their means towards the es- right to representation.
 h similar view of the matter was taken by MT. Walden of Morgan.
 Mir. Haley of Jefferson also favored the amendment. He pointed out that as amended the bill provided that three members of the Board should be State officers. This would insure general policy for all the schools. At all times the State members of the Board would be in majority.
 The House decided to accept the amend ment by vote of 46 to 25.
 University Summer School.
 The bill establishing a summer schoo at the University of Alabama came UT as the next special order. The bill was explained by Mir. Davis of Etowah. The idea for the summer school. MT. Davii said, had been evolved by pr. Abercrom bic. President of the University. Tn, need of such a school had long beer manifest, said Mir. Davis. as 300 Ala bama teachers were forced to leave Ala bama and go to the neighboring States o Georgia and Tennessee for instruction if the summer. The Normal schools of tn, State. Mir. Davis explained, were helC during the school year, when the teach CTS were kept at home by their work. IT the summer when they could attend. thu normal schools were closed. The bill carried an appropriation of 5000.
 Lusk Had Amendment.
 Mir. Lusk offered an amendment pro viAing that the appropriation should mol become available until g 300 had beer raised for the school from outside sources The amendment further provided that nc Alabama teacher should he charged tui ton or matriculatlon fees. The amend. ment was accepted by the friends of the bill
 MT. DuBose of Jefferson heartily ia. vored the bill. He contended for efficient and intelligent teachers. declaring that they were the great need of Alabama The summer school would bring the teachers Into contact with the best Uni. versity thought of the State. It would bring them under the influence of a corps of excellent teachers.
 MT. Goldsmith of Lowndes opposed the bill. There were sufficient normal schools in the State, he said. to train the teach. CTS without an additional appropriation He was opposed to transforming the great University at Tuscaloosa into a summer school.
 MT. Werner of Tuscaloosa was a hearty supporter of the bill. School teaching ir Alabama had been a school for breaking in colts. Untrained freshmen and soph. omores, he said. who wanted to make money to complete their college courses would go out in the summer and teach a short while for little money. He was of the opinion that the school would greatly raise the efficiency of teachers in Alabama.
 MT. KilIen of Lauderdale opposed the bill and the appropriation. Mir. Arnold of Calhoun supported the measure on the floor. It would be of in- estimable benefit, he said to the teachers who could only secure instruction. He pointed out the great work that Tennes. see was doing with is summer school al Knoxville.
 The bill was passed. ayes 52, nays 36.
 The bill consolidating the various courts of Jefferson County into the Jefferson County Circuit was called up and passed without discussion, but eight votes being cast against 1t.
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