The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-28
COMMITTEE HAS
 FINISHED WORK
Many Bills Have Been Drafted
 During the Recess
G0LOSBY GIVES AN OUTLINE
6Ill Supplemental to the Hall Bills Has Been Prepared and Measure for Revision and Qualification
 of the Code.

Montgomery, June 27-(Special.) )-The senate recess committee practically com pleted the work assigned to it today. and the members have returned to their homes. Another session will be held just prior to the reconvening of the legisla ture September 1.
 The committee has been in session for more than q month and during this time about eighteen bills were drafted and will be submitted to the senate when that body reconvenes. When the committee was raised by resolution of the senate, It was charged with the framing of such laws as might be found necessary to make the statutes of the state conform to the recently adopted constitution. The committee has, therefore. had great mass of work to dispose of, and they have labored hard to meet the expectations of their colleagues.
 The committee Is composed of President pro tenn Goldsby. Senators McSmith of Lamar, Morrow of Jefferson, Hall of Baldwin. Craig of Dallas Bullock of Franklin. Hipp of Cullman, Blackmsn of Calhoun, Castleberry of Talladega.
 Chairman Goldsby pt epared the follow ing outline of the committees work
 Hard at Work.
 Acting under the senates resolution our committee has been hard at work upon it's duties. 1t has prepared bill which is supplemental to what are known as the Hall bills, and which we think completes the system to confer and limit powers of private corporations. It has ,t- for. nd qualification of the code, to prevent brib- cry of members of the legislature. 10 prevent corrupt solicitation of public of ficers, general election law, the issuance of bonds by counties, and has been hard at work upon several bills in reference to municipalities, and has before 1t bills to provide for the inspection and control of state banks, changing the name of corporations, the deductions of salaries of public officers. primary election bill, a school bill, and a bill for leVying a special tax for schools.
 You can readily see the scope and im- portance of this work Perhaps the most radical of all the departures made by the constitution of 1901 is that in reference to municipalities. Since Alabama has been a state municipalities therein have been created by special acts of the legisa ture. Our information is that there are upwards Of one hundred ncorpora ted cities and towns in the state of Alabama, and it is doubtful If there are two char ters which are identical, or even substan- tially so. Each municipality has been to large extent a distinct sovereignty. Whenever a charter did not meet the needs of a city or town, or some defect in the administration of the affairs of the municipality was occasioned by req son of some omission or error In the charter, the legislature was applied to either for a new charter or an amendment of the old one. Under the new constitu- ton this remedy no longer exists, and we have been confronted with the difficult task of attempting to carry out the man dates Of the constitution both In the let ter and the spirit, and at the same time without too greatly disturbing the rela- tive rights and duties of the inhabitants of cities and towns and of the govern ment of them.
 Report Not Yet Ready.
 We are not in the position at present to state in detail what we have done in the matter, as the bill or bills have not been finally gone over and arranged in proper sequence and radical changes may be deemed necessary by the committee when it finally comes to consider all the work which 1t has done. subcommittee will meet at a later day for the purpose of arranging and putting in proper order all of the work which the committed itself has done and to again go over the con- sttution in order to find whether or not in it's judgment, anything has been omitt- cd by the committee which should be at tended to before the meeting of the legis- lature in September. After this has been carefully done. there will be a meeting of the whole committee for the purpose of finally going over it's completed work
 We have been very much impressed by the fact that the people throughout the state seem to recognize the wisdom and necessity of the recess work and we have tried to give 1t the careful attention which so important a matter has deserv- ed. il has also encouraged the commit- tee very much to see the friendly atti- tude the press of the state has taken in regard to the work of the committee and the fact that they regard, so far as we have seen. the work one both of impor- tance and necessity"