The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-13
HOUSE AFTERNOON SESSION.
Two Motions Were Rejected by
 RepresentatiVes


 Representatives.
 At the beginning of the afternoon ses- sion MT. Searcy of Henry introduced resolution dispensing with the roll call at the beginning of the afternoon session un less 1t was demanded for the purpose of ascertaining if a quorum was present. The House rejected the resolution.
 There were sixty members present when the roll was called.
 MT. Kelly of Choctaw moved that an adjournment be taken until Monday at 10 o'clock to give the clerks a chance to catch up with their work. The motion was lost.
 The bill authorizing street railway cor Sorations to increase their capital stock was indefinitely postponed. A similar bill having passed both Houses.
 Corporation Bill Killed.
 The Senate bill requiring list to be made and kept of all corporations formed under the laws of Alabama was indefi- nitely postponed.
 MT. Benners of Jefferson fought the bill. It would greatly embarrass the organiza- tion of corporations in Alabama. It could hardly be made effective because, he said, there were 800 corporations organized in Alabama under various laws adopted by various Legislatures and there was no record of these corporations except as they appeared in the bills.
 The Senate bill, No. 102, slightly chang ing the code in reference to the control of burial societies was passed. Hoffman Bill Debated.
 The consideration of the Hoffman bill regulating the lending of money on per sonal property precipitated a sharp de- bate. The bill was drawn. the author ex- plained, for the protection of the people SO-r1Ilp1 'tr,,Nr uI1a aY.lyn bill was a long one with many details. throwing restrictions around the lending of small amount for which security is demanded. The bill declared that it did not affect transactions of $1O0 and. above. | MT. Foster of Tuscaloosa offered an amendment changing the title of the bill | to An act for the protection of idiots and | insane persons"
 | The amendment was ruled out of order
 You cannot legislate against improvi. l dence," declared MT. Foster, in arguing that the bill was an attack on the rights l of citizens of the State.
 | MT. Hoffman declared that the bill would correct a great evil that had man. l ifested itself in the larger cities of the State. The bill would not, he said. affect l legitimate commercial transaction anG not touch in the least the banking bus. l mess Ii was aimed at a class of money | lenders who after lending s to a mar would continue to collect until the debtor had sometimes paid over $loO for the orig l inal debt.
 MT. Blackburn of Jefferson. confirmed the statement of Mir Hoffman as to the injustices perpertrated by the money sharks. A client of his. not two weeks before the converting of the Legislature had come to him with a case in whicf upon a loan of SIS he had already paid g and continued demands were made upor him for money by the money lender whC refused to let him see his books. MT Werner of Tuscaloosa, declared that th' bill was a repeal of the present usurN laws.
 The reading of the bill was suspended to allow Mir Rich of Mobile to move t' take House bill 727 from the adverse cal l 2ndar. and refer 1t to the Committee oI