The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-19
HOUSE REARRANGES
 THE JUDICIAL CIRCUITS

Railroad Commissioners was taken up as a special order immediately after the ap- proval of the journal. The bill provides that the two Railroad Commissioners ap- pointed last February, Messrs. Tunstall and Sanders, shall serve until 1907. The bill also defines some of the duties and methods of procedure before the Commis- sion.
 MT. Lusk of Marshall offered an amend ment striking out Section l of the bill which, he said, extended the terms of members of the Railroad Commission. MT. Lusk spoke for his amendment, de- claring that 1t was known that the cleo tive Railroad Commission bill would pass when the two Commissioners were ten- dered their appointments and when they accepted them. He declared that the Leg islature had no reason for retracting its steps.
 Favored by Starr.
 Mir. Starr of Dallas supported the bill and spoke against the amendment. He had been an advocate of the elective Rail. road Commission bill and so far as he could ascertain there was no demand from the people that the members of the Com mission should not serve out the term for which they were appointed. MT. DuBose of Jefferson declared he felt himself bound by the action of the Jeffer- son County primary to vote consistently for an elective Railroad Commission and to stand by the old bill. The Legislature, he said, passed the law and it should let it stay passed.
 Mir. Elliott of Hale made an eloquent speech in opposition to the bill. His posi- ton was the same now, he said, as last February when the bill was passed. He favored an elective Railroad Commission then and he favored 1t now, He explained that he had the highest regard for MT. Tinstall. who was from his County, but his convictions were unchanged.
 The previous question was ordered on motion of MT. Starr of Dallas, although MT. Lusk asked that several other mem should be allowed to speak.
 In the vote upon the adoption of the bill MT. Wood of Macon explained his vote He said that in the passage of the elective Railroad Commission bill before the recess the opponents of the bill had been given every opportunity for speak ing, but the opportunities given the op- ponents of the present bill were very few. He did not charge any unfairness against the majority of the House but he did know that he had made several attempts to speak but had not secured an oppor- tunity. He said that there had been some remarkable conversions since the recess conversions like that of Saul of old. He was interrupted by Mir. Parker of Cullman who made the point of order that Mir. Wood was making a speech instead of explaining his vote. The chair ruled that the point was well taken. The bill was passed, ayes 55. nays 26. The next special order was the bill of MT. Hoffman appropriating sufficient amount to pay commissions due the Solic- itor of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit The bill, Mir. Hoffman explained, was to place the Solicitor of that Circuit upon the same basis as regards commissions as other Solicitors of the State.
 The bili was tabled on the motion of Mir. Haley of Jefferson. Rearranging Judicial Circuits.
 House bill 7ss. the Lrsls Judiciary bill came up then as the special order. The bill raises the number of Judicial Circuits in Alabama from IA to IS.
 By the bill as introduced the Circuits are arranged as follows:
 First Circuit-Houston, Henry, Pike, Geneva and Coffee.
 Second Ctrcuit-Barbour, Bullock, Rus sell, Dale and Lee.
 Third Circuit-Macon,T Tallapoosa, Cham bers and Randolph.
 Fourth Circuit-Clay, Cleburne and Cal noun.
 Fifth Circuit-Talladega Shelby, Coosa and Chiffon.
 Sixth Clrcuit-Etowah, St. Clair and Blount.
 Seventh Circuit-Cherokee, DeKalb, Jackson and Marshall.
 Eighth Circuit-Madison and Limestone.
 Ninth Circuit-Morgan, Lawrence and Cullman.
 Tenth Circuit-Lauderdale, Colbert, Franklin and Marion.
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 Twelfth Circuit-Pickens, Greene, Tus- caloosa, Fayette and Lamar.
 Thirteenth Circuit-Dallas, Hale, Perry, Wilcox and Bibb
 Fourteenth Circuit-Autauga, Lowndes, Montgomery and Elmore.
 Fifteenth Circuit-Choctaw Clarke, Ma rengo. Monroe and Sumter.
 Sixteenth Circuit-Baldwin, Mobile and Washington.
 Seventeenth Circuit-Butler. Crenshaw, Covington, Conecuh and Escambia. Eighteenth Circuit-Jefferson.
 MT. Lusk called attention to the con- servative letter of Judge N. D. Denson published in yesterdays Advertiser rela- tive to the conditions in the Fifth Cir cult. The crying neeo for improvement in conditions in Jefferson County, he said, could be best explained by the membtrs from Jefferson. The Seventh Circuit had also a congested docket and he could tes- tify of his personal observation of the congested dockets in tae Ninth Circuit.
 He pointed out the changes that were made in the bill in the Second Circuit, Montgomery having been with Lowndes. Autauga and Fillmore been formed into a separate circuit, an arrangement having been previously made in what was known as the Pony Circuit bill" introduced by member from Montgomery.
 MT Williams of Calhoun offered an amendment making the number of circuits 15 instead of r or IS.
 MT. Lusk was speaking in opposition to the amendment when the hour for recess arrived.