The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-27
May Be Called from Ad- verse Calendar. PREDICTED IT WILL PASS Vote on Stock Law Rec0nSi- dered and Postponed. Matter Will Not Come Up Until September-Senate Bill Increas- ing Salary of Private
 Secretary to $2,4oo
 Was Passed.
PREDICTED IT WILL PASS

The uniform text book bill which has passed the Senate Is before the House and its fate hangs in the balance
 Restive and anxious because Of the delay of the House Committee on Edu- cation in reporting the bill the members who favor the bill and who appear to be in a majority forced =he committee into action in the House of Representatives yesterday.
 A majority of the members of the House demanded that the committee re- port the bill one way or the other. The committee compelled to do something sent up the bill with an adverse report. Notice was promptly given that mo- ton would be made today to take the bill from the adverse calendar.
 The friends of the bill feared that the Committee on Education intended killing the bill by the Fabian policy of waiting and inaction. They suspected that the committee was not friendly to State uni formity and this suspicion became con- viction when the committee sent the bill up stamped with an adverse report.
 Majority After the Bill.
 The House majority determined to fight the question out on the floor and the bat tie will undoubtedly take place today.
 At the morning session MT. Blackburn
 
 that the Committee on Education be instructed to return the uniform text book bill to the House with some report at the afternoon session. Chairman Arnold of the committee pro- tested against the motion but 1t was adopted.
 During the afternoon session Mir. Lusk of Marshall gave notice that he would today move to take Senate bill 127, the text book bill, from the adverse calendar. MT, Hoffman of Mobile made the point of ordtr hat there was no such. bill on the calendar and the Speaker ruled that the point was well taken.
 Later in the session MT. Arnold asked permission to make a report from the Education Committee, but objection was entered
 Mir Curry of Pickens moved that the rules be suspended in order that the com mittee might make its report, but the necessary vote for a suspension of the rules was not obtained. there being ayes 5 and nays 20, four-fifths not voting for suspension.
 MT Bankhead og Walker made the point of order that a suspension of the rules was not necessary in that the com mittee was only acting upon instructions and the Speaker announced that he would rule upon that point later
 Committee Report Received.
 few minutes afterwards MT. Thach of Limestone arose to a question of per- sonal privilege. He was. he said, a mem- Der of the Committee on Education and the House had instru cted that committee to submit report on Senate bill 127. He asked that the report be received in ac- cordance with the instructions received by the committee.
 The Speaker thereupon directed Chair man Arnold to send up the committees report.
 The fight on the bill will take place among the first business of today in the House. It Is predicted that the bill will be recalled from the adverse calendar and passed
 The House yesterday undld its work in passing the general Stock law bill The vote by which the bill was passed was reconsidered and the bill was postponed until the September session. This action was victory for the country members of the House, The farmers had. as A rule. opposed the measure, but they had not, until yesterday, been able to mass their strength.