The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-04
LEGISLATION ,P LEGISLA LATORS.

~ resentative Walker was for the larger increase.
 During the debate and after Mfr. starr had spoken Mir. Walden said:
 T can afford to have the contempt of a man who started out as a preacher and wound up member of the Alabama Legislature"
 Mir. Starr conceived that the remark was aimed at him. He arose to a ques- ton of personal privilege and without IT, ritation explained that he must certainly have been misunderstood. There was not. he pointed out. anything In his re- marks that could be construed as showing a contempt for any member of the House who was working for the benefit of old soldiers. He honored his old comrades, Mir. Starr said, and he honored those who tried to help them. Mir. Walden, equally generous. retracted the remark.
 The Senate Committee on Banking and Insurance of which Senator Lancaster of Elmore is chairman, met last night in the office of the Union Trust and Saw fngs Company to consider two bills for the regulation of State banks. Repre- sentative A. Y. Glover of Greene. chair man of the HoSse committee on Banks and Banking was present by invitation. After some discussion 1t was decided to hold joint meeting of the House and Senate Committees next Wednesday evening to further consider the bills. All persons interested in the measures win be given a hearing at this meeting.
 The bill to rearrange the Judicial cir cults of the State. introduced in the House yesterday, recalled the fact that a special committee was appointed to draw up such bill at the winter session. The committee directly after it was raised held several meetings and put in some hard work. The committee is still in ex- istence. never having been discharged. Around the Hobbies it Is not believed that Q report will be made by the committee, nos it is generally believed that there will be any changes made at this session of the existing judicial circuits.
 The House Committee on Ways and Means. of which Representative R. T. Simpson of Lauderdale is chairman. met last night. The meeting was held in the City Court room, and the bills introduced by MT. Goldsmith of Lowndes amending the present revenue law were considered One of these bills seeks to abolish the special mortgage tax of the revenue act Mir. Goldsmith is leading a fight against this provision of the act. No definite ac- tion was taken.
 A bill giving additional duties to the Assistant Solicitor of the City Court of Montgomery and increasing his salary to a. 800 year. was introduced by MT. Ar rington by request. The bill makes 1t the duty of the Assistant Solicitor to
 work with the grand juries while in ses- sion and to appear in the City Court as he does now in the County Court. Mir. Arlington also introduced two bills to prevent the adulteration of fertilizers Dr. Thomas A. Johnson, the senior member of the House from Russell was in his seat yesterday for the first time at the September session. Dr. Johnson was prevented by illness from attending Tues days session. He is one of the twenty
 nine Confederate veterans who are mem-
 bers of the House. Dr. Johnson has for forty years practiced the profession of medicine.
 The recent alarm over the reappear- ance of cotton worms in Alabama is re- fiected in the bills introduced in the House yesterday by Representative Mo- Crary of Lee and in the Senate by Sem | ator Acree of Dale. The bills are for the protection of farmers. They seek to for bid the adulteration of paris green and 1 fixes a penalty for the sale or thv adui- toE6tcu PotDohs The published statement that the Tus- kegee Normal Institute receives annually $S,5 ,5OO Is inaccurate. The Institute only receives annually $4.5oo. Of this it gets 5000 from the general educational ap- propriation. The remaining $1,50O comes | from the agricultural fund.
 i One of the reforms recommended by the State Board of Convict Inspectors is con- | tained in bill introduced yesterday by Representative Byrne of Baldwin. The Byrne bill provides for the sequestration of convicts suffering from tuberculosis.
 The bill regulating the practice of phar- macy, and which fas received the en- 1 dorsement of the State Pharmaceutical Association, was introduced yesterday in the House by Representative Maner of l Montgomery.
 ever before. It is a difficult thing for a