The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-20
No Compulsory 'Educa- ton for the Senate.
REYNOLDS LOSES HIS FIGHT
Two Rules Committees Picking Out
 Measures to Pass.
More of .the Governors Railroad Meas- ures Go Through--ses.Ion Now Expected to Come to End
 Saturday Night.

Compulsory education was killed in the Senate yesterday. The vote was ayes IA. nays IT.
 The Senate passed this bi1f at the July session. but yesterday 1t defeated it by a comparatively close vote. The question is killed for the extra session. It will probably revive when the Leg islature meets again. but until then it is dead issue by the vote of the Sem ate.
 Senator H. E. Reynolds of B1bb, fath- cred the bill at the extra session. as he did the one passed by the Senate and strangled in the House at the July session. The subject was named in the Governors call. no doubt at the request of Senator Reynolds.
 In the Senate the Bibb County Sena- tor made an earnest and intelligent light for the measure, but apparently the majority of the Senators thought he was In advance of his time.
 He had devoted no little care and thought to the study of compulsory ed- ucatfon and it's bearing upon educa- tional conditions in Alabama. His speech in support of the measure was line presentation of the subject. He was given sympathy and assistance by a number of the leading Senators, but all without avail
 The Black Belt Senators. as a rule. were opposed to it and a num- Der of the Senators from the white counties seemed equally apprehensive.
 The consideration of the compulsory education bill occupied all of the Thurs day afternoon session. It came up yes- terday morning in the Senate again. but 1t was pushed out of the way by the prohibition bill.
 The consideration of the bill was re- sumed in the Senate during the after noon and Senator Reynolds went into . still further explapatiop of the
 Senator Reese, who had previously opposed the bill. said that he had been informed that his people wanted the measure and he would therefore favor
 Senator Merritt also spoke good word.
 But the Senate passed upon 1t and made 1t fit subject for the legisls- tive graveyard.
 Ticking Out the BlIIs.
 The end of the extra session is in sight It will in all probability ceme Saturday night. The two rules commit tees were Instructed yesterday by a joint resolution to hold a conference and pick out the important bills which were to be passed. The House and Senate are to devote themselves to the passage of these bills and then take up before Saturday whatever other leg 1slation there Is to be done.
 There is every reason to believe that all work can be easily accomplished by Saturday night. The Senate almost finished it's railway legislation yester- day afternoon. It had on Saturday passed all the bills originally com mitted to it's care and yesterday after noon. during an industrious spell it passed nearly all the railroad bills that the House sent over. y4
 The Senate reversed ftselfs when an adverse vote was taken on an amend ment to the bill allowing suits for dam- ages by any person who might be elected from a passenger train after offering to pay the statutory rate. The Reynolds amendment proposed limit ing the time in which suits could be brought to six months. A Senate measure Tn the same terms had been passed and the Reynolds amendment had been adopted. But the Senate yes- terday afternoon refused to take the amendment on the House bill.
 Free Rides for PoIicemen.
 The admintstration bill to which