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on the evils of intemperance also

on the evils of intemperance also l passed. 4 There was larger attendance at the opening or the morning session than at any other time during this term. Mir. Williams of Barbour had taken from the adverse calendar his bill to divide dispensary. one half to go to road purposes. Henley Bill on Cale.aar. Mir. Henley, of Escambia, asked the House to suspend the rules in order that his prohibition bill might be- taken from the adverse calendar On a division vote. only one member voted against it.
 The House as a committee of the l whole reported the bill favorably. It was placed on the calendar for to- day.
 Mir. Gunter asked unanimous consent to take up quarantine law. There was objection but MT. Gunter suc- | ceeded in having the rules suspended The bill amends the last quarantine bill passed at the winter session and gives to the Department of Health | $20,000 instead of $l5,0OO for quaran- | tine purposes.
 The regular order was demanded by MT Rushton of Crenshaw, who took up his primary election. law bill at the point where he left off on Monday | last.
 He referred to the printed copies on | the desk of the members. The bill. he l explained, provides that primary elec- | tons for all officers be held the same day and that the county should stand | the expense.
 There were few in the House who gave attention to MT. Rushton. It was said that it had already been de- O f0 ynta h> hs | fore the members did not care to waste time on 1t. but MT. Rushton was ac- | corded the usual privilege of making speech on the bill
 MT. Hoffman of Mobile moved to | lay the bill on the table, which the House declined to do by, vote of yeas 47. nays 4s It was necessary to call l the roll twice.
 MT. Arnold then offered a substitute for MT. Rushton's bill and pending amendment whereupon there was con siderable argument on a point of order. MT Arnold finally gained his point and said the purpose of his substitute was to give each executive committee a chance to select the day on which the primary should be held. He was op- posed. he said. to having the prima- ries of all parties juggled together to- gether on the same day The substt- tute also provides that if more than one-fourth of the electors vote at primary, then the expenses of that primary must be paid by the county MT. Lee of Et6wah moved to table the bill and substitute. and 1t was done. yeas 4s. nays fl. The bill to amend the Constitution in order to change the poll tax law was called up by Mir. John and passed. "In Favor of RailrOads." The bill to amend the demurrage bill so as to allow railroads to charge for the entire time that cars are held over by shippers or consignee The present
 bill allows them to collect for only ten
 days at S1 day.
 MT. Long said this bill was really in
 favor of the railroads, which statement called forth a burst of laughter A
 car might be detained for sixty days,
 he said, and the railroad be able to col
 lect only $1o. which he considered to
 be unfair. The bill was passed.
 The next bill called was also a rail-
 road measure. It was bill to author ize the Railroad Commissio nto modify
 or change any rule or regulation pre-
 scribed by the statute relating to de-
 murrage of car service and charges
 thereof.
 MT. Pitts, of Dallas. wanted to know
 where this House had a right to con-
 fer legislative powers on any other
 body, and was told by MT. John that
 the bill was modelled after a Georgia
 law. which had already been passed upon by the Supreme Court The bill was passed.
 Mir. McDuffy asked permission to call bill and as he had not previously asked for one this session his request
 was granted. Then came a surprise,
 for he called the bill introduced by MT.
 Kirby to require that candidates for
 election as County Superintendents of
 Education hold first grade or life
 grade certificates.
 MT. Pitts of Dallas opposed the pas
 sage of the bill. He said it was just
 to it which the House had already
 turned down.
 MT Haley. of Jefferson, spoke in fa-
 vor of the bill. He thought 1t was a good one as far as 1t went but not
 strong enough. He believed that ev-
 cry precaution should be taken to give
 to the schools the best possible system of supervision.
 He was followed by MT. Lee Of Houston who also argued in favor of the bill. He offered as an amendment | that first second and third grade cer- | tificates should be sufficient. and MT. Tunstall offered another amendment 10 the effect that the bill should not inter | fere with superintendents now in office. | The bill as amended was passed. More Money for Patients. Through MT. John there was consid- cred A bill to increase the weekly al-
 lowance for patients in the insane asy-
 lum from 8 to $4. The bill is an
 amendment to the code and was passed.