The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-11

cage, where Anger was Wltn hiS eioeS. and fired deliberately at him. Angel fell and Stark tried to leave the olnce, put was arrested.
 It is said insanity will be the defense. Stark was formerly auditor of the Jack sonviiIe Tampa and Key West Railroad company and Angel was cashier or the Southern Express company.
 ------------------------ process for the collection of debts con tracted after April 23, 1873, and to pro- vide for a homestead exemption after the death of such resident in favor of his widow, or widow and minor child or children, or either, was passed. The bill exempts homesteads up to 160 acres,
 A companion bill amending section 2O69 of the code was passed after wrangle over some minor amendments.
 MT. Werner of Tuscaloosa gave notice that he would on tomorrow move to take the general dispensaries bill from the adverse calendar, and place 1t upon its passage.
 The bill amendings section PIT ot the Code was passed.
 Senate.
 The senate was called to order ny Lieutenant Governor Cunningham. The devotional exercises were led by the Rev. J. C. Elliott of Montgomery.
 Twenty eight members answered to roll call.
 After the call of districts and commit tees Senator Lynne introduced resolu- tion that on every Monday the secretary have printed a consolidated caiendar' containing all bills upon which the sen- ate has not acted. The resolution was referred to the committee on rules.
 The special business for the morning
 fx.z ,f fho school tax election bill, which occupied the attention of the senate throughout the afternoon session of the previous day. The Spraggns amendment providing for due notice to be given of such an elec- ton. was first considered and passed. Another effort was made by Senator Johnston to withdrawffrom the county superintendents of education absolute power in the disburse nvv-t of ihe ounty school funds.
 Senator Jones of Wilcox said that he thought that the most facile way of dis" tributing the funds was through the su- perintendent They are more familiar with the needs of the various schools and are in every way more capable of intelli- gently distributing the funds. He moved to lay the Johnston amendment on the table. His motion prevailed by vote of F ayes nays. The bill then passed by an almost unanimous voc.
 Corporations Bill.
 The recess committee bill conferring and limiting the powers of private corpora tions was called up. Three amendments covering technical legal points in the bill, were adopted. After the rcad ding of the bill, Senator Harrison sa'd that while he was in favor of the bill he thought it unconstitutional on ac c)uat of the en- tire nature of the bill not being set up in the caption. He argued his point from a legal viewpoint. Senator Gold2by. chairman of the recess committee, replied to the senator from Lee. The recess cnm- mittee had carefully considered this point and had found that the Supreme court gave the captions wide latitude. He an- that Senator Craig, who had per sonally investigated the law for the re- cess committee, was at the time in the Supreme court library getting together authorities. He asked that further con- sideration of the bill be postponnl until the return of Senator Craig In the mean time several local bills were passed.
 On the return of 5eaate- Craig, Senator Oliver spoke on the unconstituticnality of the measure and opposed t.e bill on the further ground that it inc"eased the DOW CT of corporations and accordingly en- couraged the formations ot trusts. The final passage of the bill being called, it appeared at first that the measure was lost The friends f the measure. how ever, were brought in from cloak room and lobby and the bill was passed. j6 ayes. 13 noes, the closest vote since the reconvention of the senate.
 vagrancy Bill.
 The Harrison vagrancy bll vas called as a special order for the hour. Two amen dments were submitted. one l'y Sem ator Thomas. providing that a defendant proving that he had made a bona fide effort to obtain work for a reasonable salary. and the other by Senator Hipp,
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