The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-31
{ Sweeping 'Anti- Cigarette
 Measure Was Adopted.
Greater Montgomery 1ili and IAbsrty County siir ksportsd favSrAbay by Committss-rsnsion Gem mittss Named by Spsak-
 CT Tunstaii.

The Alabama House of Representatives yesterday reached the. legislative stage. in which the final passage of bills Is the most important demand upon the time and attention of the Legislators.
 The fifteenth day of the Legislature was nlled with routine work the most i'm portant of which was by far the passage of eight bills on the calendar. including the sweeping measure directed at cigar cite smoking.
 Speaker iunstsli named yesterday the members of the new Committee on Pen- sions and Soldiers Home which was ere ated Thursday by resolution introduced by Representative Walden of Morgan. The membership of the Committee. as announced yesterday by Speaker Tunstail, is as follows: Messrs Walden. Chairman; Byrne. Young. Hardie. Posey. Frssier. killen, Fulton. Curry. Warren. Powell. NcClusky Johnson of Coosa, Lee of But Ter and Williams of Calhoun.
 To this Committee will be referred all pension legislation and all matters re- iating to the acquisition of a State home for Confederate soldiers.
 Cigarette Bill Debated.
 The Byars anti-cigarette bill passed the House yesterday with votes to spare al- though 1t encountered some strenuous opposition. Mir. London of Jefferson, be- gan the fight on the bill. He wanted some information as to its contents and he declared that the bill went too far.
 .As understand it,. he said 1t for bids a man from giving away any sub stitute for cigarettes Why. this bill give his neighbor a load of snucks. for everybody that has tried them knows that shucks make . good substitute for cigarette paper"
 Mir Byars said there was no need for explanations. The bill. he said, explained itself. He was anxious to get the bill to vote.
 MT. London moved that the bill be ta- bled but he withdrew his motion to al- low Representative Poole of Maremgo. to speak on the bill.
 Mir. Poole said that he regarded the bill as a serious infringement on the rights of a man. It forbade. he said, a man from smoking his tobacco In any way that he wanted to. He said that he had observed with regret the disposition of the Legislature ''to fool away its time on little old cigarette bill'
 Representative Kelly addressed the House in his characteristic style on the measure. He said that the bill if 1t for bade the giving away of shucks, 1t would not affect his County because his people didn't raise any shucks last year. He said that the bill went too far. It looked like an infringement on a mans rights He thought that there ought to be some cigarette iesislation but 1t ought to take the form of a stringent bill forbiddins the sale of cigarettes to boys. | The motion to table was lost by . vote | of B ayes and 3s nays. The bill wal then passed by vote of ayes. S1. and l nays s. -..c l Pension Bill Discussed. l The House passed two amendments tc
 She bill allowing pensions to indigen | Confederate soldiers or to the widows of | Confederate soldiers and defeated one | The amendments were not of great i'm portahce. Both of them relate to keep. | ing the record clear of names that do not | legally belong on it..
 The original bill. introduced by MT Lowe of Lawrence. simply provided that the name of a widow of Confederate soldier should have her name stricken from the roll when she remarried. He explained to the House that his amended bill contained only that change Representative Thomas offered an amendment to the amendment; in which he raised the maximum of the property that might be owned by a, Confederate soldier. The present law provides that no Confederate soldier who owns more than $4oo worth of property shall be cn- titled to a pension. The intent of Mir. Thomass amendment is to raise the limit to $500. He explained the amendment and said that 1t would affect only q few Con- federate soldiers in Alabama and only two that he knew of in his County. Representative Goldsmith of Lowndes said that his experience in the probate ofice of Lowndes County had convinced him that the amendment would be un. wise. It would have. he eontended, the effect of cutting down the small amount that annually went to the Confederate | soldier. If the pension rolls were in creased he said the helpless old soldiers those that really and truly needed as.
 sistance. would not receive even ths
 amount that they are now getting. The
 amendment, he said. would let in msr
 who could make a living. Opposed by Veteran. l Representative Starr of Dallas ex pressed pride that ne had the honor o
 wearing the Southern cross which testi
 fed that he had been soldier of tn, Confectionery. He did not think that tn.
 increase would rebound to the benefit o the Confederate soldier who really need
 ed the pension and he would oppose it. Representative Killen of Lauderdale
 said that he was opposed to the raise
 Men were on the pension rolls now, h,
 said. that had no right to be there. Tn,
 law. he claimed. had been imposed on. | was done. he said, because men woul,
 not stand out against the Confederat,
 soldier. . rt
 Representative Kelly of Choctaw. wa,
 also opposed to the amendment It woult
 let in men. he said. who were not enti
 tied to pensions. 'N
 Why" he declared. 'I know men wh,
 have given away their property to theil
 children so that they can get the paltr.
 sum of s19 a year
 | He thought that the present law wal
 faulty in that 1t had too many elasse,
 and he was opposed to the State Boart |