The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-08
$l5O,OOO GIVEN
 FOR STATE CAPITOL
After Lengthy Debate House Amend cd and Passed Goodwin Blll--IO
 Have Afternoon Sessions.

day appropriated $15o.000 for the exten- sion of the State Capitol and for the ac- quisition by the State of the south half of the Capitol Square. The bill carrying the appropriation which was passed by the House by vote of 59 to 29. VIII, IL is confidently believed, receive propor- tionate majority vote in the Senate.
 The debate which attended the consid- eration of the bill in the House was ai- most stormy at times. It was legisla- tive day to be long remembered. The House struggled back and forth to ma 6 common ground on which the members could stand for Capitol improvement. A 2Ajority voted down a proposition 10 a1ake the appropriation $25,00O. A major ity voted down s5o,ooo proposition and a majority went on record as opposed 10 an appropriation of s2oo.ooo.
 At length the majority decided that the most equitable sum to meet the crying needr for Capitol improvement was $lSo,- 900.
 No Executive Mansion.
 There will. be no Governors mansion The majority cut that out of the oiii The whole of the appropriation will be expended for Capitol extension ana TOT the acquisition of additional grounds. Ine failure of the House to provide for the building of an Executive Mansion, now ever disappointed no one. The frienos of the Capitol bill took no stand on that phase of the question and were quite willing that it should be carved out or the bill.
 f oF OT less importance were tackled on the Dill. hut the measure lost none of it's vital parts, and its original form was changed but little. The bill provides that the ap- propriation of $150,00O shall be expended by ruiiding Commission consisting or the Governor, the Attorney General, the Auditor. the Treasurer and the Director of the DepaI tment of Archives ana Ills tory who is to be Secretary of the Boaro' all of whom are to serve without pay. The appropriation Is to run over pe- riod of three years. The bill contains the safeguard that the Governor may, Y ne sees 6t to do so. decline to draw war rant on the treas,iry, for the apprepria- ton or any part of it.
 An amendment presented by Mir. Lon- don of Jefferson, provides that IT any part of the new building is to be used oy fhe Supreme Court, the Justices ana Chief Justice of the Supreme Court snail bA made members of the Building Com mission.
 Was Stubbornly Fight.
 The bill was stubbornIy fought by a small but oratorical minority. The Hi- nority threw every possible opstacle HI the way of the bin. An attempt was made to check it at every stage ihe minority was large enough to demand di,,ision unon every question and not once did it fail to do so. Roll call after rou call had much to do with the length enine of the consideration of the oili which extended over two hours ana half. z,.. .he hare footed boys and the bare-footeu BITS were made to do a turn for the edlncsuon of the House and gallery. The twin spec tres of calamity and disaster was sum moned from the vasty deep ana "l'h .ne hare-footed boys and girls was paradeo before the House, but the compact ma1or- it,, was not to be easily frightened.
 The minority forces were marshalled ard led hy Representative Lusk Of Mar shall. He did most of the speaking III op, nosition to the measure and ne suHlihoheu each of his followers to the fray when parliamentary delay was possible It was MT. IAsk who pathetically descrloeo the man between the blow handles ana the bare-footed boys and girls who were TOT some reason so unalteraoly opposed 'o Canitol improv ement The aggressive ana oggressive presantative from Marshall cbided the gallery for applauding an elo- ouent point in the address of one or the advocates of the measure.
 Starr and Arnold Led.
 The two leading speeches for the bill' ood +bev were eloduent efforts, were made bv Messrs. Starr of Dallas and Arnold or Calhoun. They presented the arguments for Capitol improvement as an imperative necessity in a forceful and enec'aVe tnan- ner. .,,
 MT. Callahan of Morgan rendered tell ing service for the bill in stralght1or- ward counmon-sense speech. The conpro- mise amendment on which the majority of the House settled was presented by MT Callahan.
 The bill came before the House few minutes before II o'clock in the shape of unfinished business, having come over from the Fridays session of the House The question was on the bill in Its orig inal form carrying an appropriation or S25O.OOO.
 MT. Arnold of Calhoun offered an amendment making the approprlauon S2oO,OOo.
 NIT. ATnOlu SuppOEleo HIS pIoPOSltlOA i4A an eloquent speech.
 Every member of the House." he de- clared. recognizes the imperative neces- slty of some adequate appropriation for the improvement and extension of the Capitol"
 The substitute. he argued, provided the best machinery for paying out the appro- priation. He called to the attention of the House that the, appropriation was so guarded by the provisions of the bill that 1t could only be paid out when the Gov ernor deemed 1t necessary. He declared that Alabama was outdone by her sister States of Georgia and Mississippi with their magnificent Capitol buildings In all the arguments on the bill. he said. 1t had never been stated that taxable property in Alabama was decreasing. The State was prosperous He said that there are more factories, more miles of railroad. more mills of all kinds and agricultural pro- ducts here than fin other States and they were worth more than they had even been before. There was no better time for this appropriation, he said, than right now, for we have an overfiowin gtreas- ury.
 Glover Interrupted Arnold.
 He was interrupted by MT. Glover of Greene, who asked him if he knew where the money was coming from for the ap- propriation.
 rhis same cry raised bx Mr. Glover.