The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-30
HOUSE AGREES ON S5,OOo
 SALARY FOR THE GOVERNOR

w | River between Chattanooga. Tenn. and the head of Musscls shoals. ! Senate Joint Resolution. The Senate message submitted to the House joint resolution which had originated in and passed the Senate. The resolution provided for the creation of l Joint committed. to consist of four from the Senate and i've from the House to prepare and submit so the Legislature . bill rearranging the judicial circuits and eQualixing the work of the circuit judges of the State. The resolution was referred to the Committee on Rules.
 The roll was then called for the in-
 troduction of bills. The daily output l of new measures was well up to the average.
 Mir. Fletcher of Madison. introduced a resolution providing for the payment of | s1o each to II. T. Bartlett and W. H. Hubbard of Montgomery. expert ac- countants who assisted the special joint committee from the House and Senate to count the money in the treasury. The
 resolution went to the Committee on Rules.
 Pension Committee Created. The Committee on Rules through MT. | Rich of Mobile made a favorable report | on the resolution of Mir. Walden of Mor- | gan, providing for a special committee | of fifteen members to be known as the | Committee on Pensions and Soldiers | Home. The resolution was then adopted | by the House. Speaker Tunstall will later l announce the appointment ot the mem- bers of the committee.
 7, The bills favorably reported by com | vnSf he hS, tative Blackburn of Jefferson, making | the burglary of an inhabited residence
 in the. night time a capital offense. | Another bill by MT Blackburn fixing | a penalty for a person who alters his or | her name except by the means prescribed by law was also favorably reported by | the committee.
 House bill S4 which authorizes Boards of | Revenue and courts of County Commits | sioners in Alabama to have elections held l in their counties on the question of issu- ing bonds for public Improvements was
 brought up for passage. After the House | had ordered it to a third reading. Rep- resentative Minge of Marengo said that he gathered from reading of the bill that | it was an important general measure
 granting additional powers to county
 Boards of Revenue. He thought the bill too important to be considered hastily | He, therefore moved a reconsideration | and the House ordered the reconsidera. | tion. A motion to postpone the bill and have 300 copies printed for the use of the | members was adopted.
 Appropriation for Guard. The second debate of the day was | sprung by the bill which increases tho I annual appropriation for the Alabama Ma. tionai Guard from l2,5O0 Annually to SIT, 800. The debate showed that the members
 appreciated the National Guard and were familiar with the several recent instances
 in which law and order had been pre-.
 served in Alabama by the Guard, The
 members were in favor of preserving the | efficiency of the Guard, but some were
 afraid of increasing that appropriation oi any other appropriation at this juncture.
 Representative Lusk of Marshall of. fered an amendment reducing the appro priation from $17,5o0 annually to s12, ,50'
 annually.
 Starr . Fine Speaker.
 Representative Starr of Dallas, who In. troduced the bill. made an eloquent and
 forceful speech for the original appro priation. His speech of fifteen minutes
 stamped the Dallas Representative as ont of the best speakers in the House. H' said that the experience of past years
 had shown that it was absolutely impos
 sible for all branches of the Alabama National Guard to hold an annual en campment on SIP, 500. In other years the
 Guard had been given larger appropria
 ton which had been cut down severa years ago. Since then the appropriation
 had never been large enough. Each year
 the Guard had come out in debt. It was
 impossible. he said, that it should have | been otherwise.
 ~lxs1 ..-. | ments were held, Mir Starr showed. had | been called upon to make constitutions of
 from $500 to $1. 300 and in spite of this fact
 officers of the Guard were called upon to | go down in their pockets and make ur | the deficits. The Guard. he said was
 made up of young men who periodically | gave their service to the State No of. | flcer nor member of the Guard, he said 1 received a cent in pay from the State He declared that it was wrong to make
 the officers pay any part of the encamp- l ment expenses
 | MT Starr read extracts from the mes- l sage of Governor Jelks. commenting the
 efficiency of the Guard and recommend | ing the increase of the annual appropria- | ton or the reduction of the number of companies in the State.
 | Necessity of Soldiers. | The gentlemen from Northern Alabama MT. Starr said. could not appreciate the ] conditions existing in Middle and South Alabama, where a revolution might arise
 at any time. and where an efficient Ma | tional Guard was of the utmost import | ance.
 | MT. Simpson of Lauderdale offered an
 amendment making the annual appro-
 priation $15,000.
 | MT. Bankhead of Walker, who is | a Major in the 3rd infantry spoke forci- | bIy for the bill. He favored the appro-
 priation set forth in the original bill He
 said that 1t was manifestly impossible
 to conduct the encampments on an ap- | propriation of $12,500. There was some | thing over 4,lW men in the Alabama | National Guard MT. Bankhead said and
 the proposed increase would be little more | than $1 to the man. The encampments
 he said. always had to be cut short | Il am surprised" said Mr. Bankhead,
 lat the stand taken by the gentleman l from Marshall. One instance of the | efficiency of the Guard was brought | directly to his front door"
 l A prisoner in Marshall County, said
 MT. Bankhead, had been arrested and | charged with a serious crime. He was apprehended in Guntersyille, and the jail
 was surrounded by howling mob which | demanded his life. The prisoner would have been lynched but 4br the. arrival ! of a company of the Alabama National | Guard from Birmingham.
 l And that prisoner" said Mir. Bank