The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12
NoDissenting Vote Against
 Measure. MAY CAUSE CONFERENCE Members Showed Confidence
 in Its Author. Effort to Take General Dispensary Bill from Adverse Calendar De- feated Overwhelmingly.
 First Night Session
 of the House.
MAY CAUSE CONFERENCE

With the passage of the Walker mum. cipal code bill yesterday by the House or Representatives an anomalous conoltioh which may letter the dispatch of business was established.
 The Senate has already passed the Sem ate Recess Committee bill on the same subject. 1t now comes to pass that each House has passed municipal corporation bill radically different from the other. This condition of affairs calls for Com mittee of Conference from the two houses. The work of the committee to be raised Is of the utmost importance. If the dlf- ferences in the views of the two Houses cannot be harmonized delay Will neces- sarily ensue, delay which will more or less clog the wheels of legislative busi- ness. Time Is not to be spared by either House. There now remains to the Legis- lature only fifteen working days of the sixty days allotted by the Constitutional Convention. Many general bills and prac- tically the entire report of the Senate Re- eess Committee remains to be disposed of.
 Night Session Begun.
 Three sessions of the House were held yesterday and after the gratifying results of the first night session the House nem- bers were hopeful that the full task Of the Legislature will be accomplished by the arrival of the day of adjournment.
 Thirty-two local measures were dis posed of at last nights session, thirty bills being passed and two being post poned. The Representatives saw in this assurance that all local bills would be passed upon and the time would come when general measures could have the right of way even in the night sessions. The manner in which the House passed upon the general municipal bill was a high complimnet to its author, Represen- tatiye R. W. Walker of Madison. There were several amendments offered, but in each instance Walker wes the arbiter of their fate If he had no objections to the amendment the House adopted 1t. II he did not think the amendment was a good thing it was promptly killed by the House.
 The municipal bill was disposed of very rapidly. The bill was not disposed oi section by section, but it was read in its entirety and passed as a whole. Some amendments that had suggested them selves to MT. Walker. and some that members of the Committee of Municfpa Corporations suggested were consolidated on one peice of paper and sent the clerk desk. When understood each of these amendments was adopted.
 MT. Simpsons Amendment.
 Representative Simpson of Lauderdalt offered perhaps. the most important amendment It limited the licenses whicf any town or city in Alabama coulc charge. It provided that no municipa corporation could charge more than $1' for each 1000 inhabitants. MT. Walker opposed the amendment and the House killed it.
 The House yesterday put the Werner general dispensary bill beyond the pale of hope. By the decisive vote of 61 to 2 1t refused to override the action of the Temperance Committee in adversing th' measure MT. Werner, the author ant sponsor of the bill. endeavored to get f before the House as Committee of tht Whole, but the House went on record ir its approval of the action of the Tem perance Committee in adversing thu measure.
 Under the rules, bill may be taker from the adverse calendar by majorit! vote. This Legislature rule is rather nov el, in that the present Legislature is thu first to require only majority vote tt take from a committee bill and place it before the Committee of the Whole.
 MT. Werner sought to take advantag' of the opportunity offered by this rule but the vote upon his motion gave clea evidence that there was no chance for th' massage of the State dispensary bill.