The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-15
Measure Not Completed When
 Body Adjourned.
Majority and Minority Reports Re- ceived from Committee on Re- arrangement of Judicial Cir . cuits-A Bare Quorum
  Present.

For over an hour yesterday afternoon. the senators tried to pass bill ex- tending the terms of offices of the tax assessors and collectors of the State until Aug. 1. 1905. but the effort was fu- tile.
 Many amendments were submitted to the evident disgust of the members of the Recess Committee by whom the bill was framed. Most of the amendments went to the table. but tho adjourning hour arrived before the measure was read for its final passage.
 Hardly a quorum was present at any time during the session. On several oc- casions Secretary Garrett was required to repeat the call of the roll on an aye and nay vote before a quorum could be secured. It required the efforts of the friends of the measures, which were un- der consideration to bring members in from various points about the Capitol more interesting than the Senate cham Der.
 Senators Were Tardy.
 At one time, when a local bill was be- ing passed nine senators entered dhe chamber, after the secretary had an- nounced that a quorum was not voting, and asked that their names be recorded as voting aye"
 Notwithstanding the Senate had fixed lO:30 o'clock as the hour for assembling. it was noon before a quorum was pres ent. Many senators left Saturday after noon for their homes and did not appear in the chamber until after the arrival of the Il o'clock trains in Montgomery.
 A session lasting about an hour was held, and during the time the senators busted themselves passing two general bills and several local measures.
 The vote by which the bill authorizing the Knights of Pythias to lend any sur plus money ih their treasury. was passed was on account of a constitutional de- feet, discovered by Senator Spragins, of Madison, reconsidered. The bill was then withdrawn by its author. Senator Castle berry of Talladega.
 The Senate passed with but one dis senting vote the Dunn bill appropriating s5000O for the erection and improving of buildings of the Girls Industrial School at Montevallo. The bill provides that the money shall be repaid the State treasury out of the annual appropriations of the school.
 The Harrison bill providing for the prosecution for disbarment of lawyers by the State Bar Association, was called up and passed by a unanimous vote. The Senate recessed at l o'clock to re- convene at 3:3O o'clock, in the afternoon. The Afternoon Session. When the Senate reconvened at 3:so o'clock a number of local bills were called up by their authors and passed. A general bill, which was fathered by Senator Johnston of Tuscaoosa. and which had no opposition, experienced some difficulty in being passed. The bill was to amend a section of an act by which Confederate veterans and their wtves ana widows who pass the teachers examina- ton, are entitled to life certificates. The measure had nearly secured a pas sage, when Senator NeSmith of Lamar, called the attention of the senator from Tuscaloosa to a constitutional defect In 1 the bill.
 The constitution provides that when an art is amended, the entire section amend | ed shall be written in the amended Dill. This, the senator from Tuscaloosa had l failed to do. The bill was accordingly re- | called.