The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-20
Afternoon Session.

to be made a special order for Tuesday. The motion was adopted.
 Afternoon Session.
 The house took up and passed the bill to confer additional rights and powers including the rights to acquire by pur- chase or condemnation lands and ease ments, upon corporations organized un- der the general laws or heretofore under a special act of the general assembly Of the state of Alabama and upon corpora- tions organized under the laws of any other of the United States and which corporations have complied with the laws of Alabama in reference to foreign cor porations, and which have the rights by their charter to manufacture, supply and sell hydraulic electric power. The bill especially refers to the &C., quirement by condemnation of lands ad- jacent to navigable streams where dams are constructed for the purpose of erect ing power plants.
 The bill amending the revenue code re- ducing the license tax on cold storage plants was passed at tho suggestion of Mr.. Sjmps )n Flo aisc secured the pass age of bill amending the section of the code relating to the assessment of taxes. Under unanimous consent, the chair man of the ways and means committee also secured the passage of the bill to authorize the court of county commits sioners or other governing board of like Jurisdiction in any county in this state,
 (of twenty-five thousand inhabitants or less). to levy and collect such special taxes not to exceed one-fourth of 1 per centum per annum, to pay any debt or liability now existing against any county, incurred for the erection, con struction or maintenance of the neces- sary public buildings or bridges or that may hereafter be created for the erec- tion of necessary public buildings, bridges or roads.
 Bridge and Ferry License. Another bill which Chairman Simpson called up and which was passed related to the license schedule on ferries and bridges. MT. Goldsmith amended the bill
 so as to repeal the license tax on pur- chasers of county scrip.
 The bill fixing the license tax on junk dealers was also passed The tax is made $25 in towns and cities of more than 10000 inhabitants and $10 in towns of less than 10000 inhabitants Speaker Tunstall called up the bill to prevent any county or municipal officer from using or directing or ordering the use of any money which has been, or which may be, collected or received for any purpose other than that for which 1t was collected or received. and 1t was passed.
 Senate.
 The senate yesterday adopted as a whole the general election law, and indefinitely
 postponed action on the bill regulating
 the practice of osteopathy. There were but two dissenting votes to
 the election bill, Senators Hogue and i Hurst voting mo- when the measure 0ap for On the osteopathy bill however, live ly speechfest was indulged in by oppo- nents of indefinite postponement. Senator Hogue made an impassioned | plea for the examination of osteopaths by an osteopath. He cited numerous in- | stances of cures effected by the osteo- paths where doctors of medicine had failed
 For Postponement. Senator Johnson spoke briefly in favor
 of indefinite postponement. He read an 1 extract from paper edited by the sec retary of the American Osteopathic asso- | citation. to the effect that all osteopaths | should be able to pass medical examina- l ton and stating that he saw nothing wrong with the present Alabama law. | Senator Rogers spoke at length against | indefinite postponement. He held that os- | teopaths should be examined in the things | they pIOltSS ana practice. ut eAiStib5
 law in Alabama does not test the qualih-
 cation of the osteopath from the stand
 point of the osteopath, and accordingly | enables quack practice of osteopathy.
 Senator Castleberry spoke briefly against indefinite postponement. 1 On vote the matter was indefinitely postponed by IT ayes. 12 noes. l The primary election bill was passed during the afternoon session. One impor- | tant amendment by Senator Frazer was | adopted This amendment provides that | every candidate shall be entitled to ap- ! point representative at each polling r11ana