The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-10

4 ton of Ctonnhaw, who iook91 6o thl eHert to iInspect ana irnprove t1e con ] ditions of the Jaiis ss hkeiy to prove of little or no avail. He thougnt she l in imDroving conditins. without ere ating new once, which seemed to be the principal object of the bill
 Awful Cenaftfons in Jafls. Mr. Foater of tuscaloosa, replied, declaring the conditions of the jaiis and almshouses of the State were . dis grace to Alabama He referred to . recant incident in the Montgomery jail. as reported in the newspapers oI fu1 condition of affairs. Three inmates of the Birmingham jail not long since, who had been. held there until they could be transferred to the insane hos pital. were refused adnlittarce until their heads were shaved. their bodies washed and provided with new clothes. These conditions could not hope to be remedied as long as the jails wsrc left to the Inspection of county officials who depended upon the support of the
 Mr. John of Jefrerson cited a case where he had defended a man in the vigor of health at his prskminary op a Saturday. The man made his bond of $500 the following Wednesday. and within a few days was taken sick with tuberculosis and died----a death that was declared murder under color of the law.
 Several incidents of terrible condi- tions existing in poor houses were re- cited by Mir, John as revealing the horrible conditions which 1t was sought to correct. He arraigned In scathing terms the "outrages upon humanity" that existed in the jaiis of Jefferson ku- ~.. -AA ~f Ia. ties of the State.
 Mir. Steagail of Dale offered an amendment providing the Governor might appoint any person, physician or otherwise, he might deem proper.
 Mir. Hoffman of Mobile told of con- iitions in his city. To correct the evils that had existed there, a new s25o.oo0 Jail was being erected. which you will see Monday"
 '.I hope we won't get in before Tuesday. anyway,' interposed Mir. Ha- ley of Jefferson. amid laughter
 Mir. Carmichael of Colbert. said his only criticism of the measure was that 1t was being passed years too late. He did not want 1t understood. however, that the bill was an assault upon the sheriffs of the State.
 MT. Steagalls amendment was tabled almost unanimously, the committee substitute adopted by vote of 6s to 5. and the bill pAssed. 53 to 3. Mir. Rushton explained his affirmative vote by his willingness to bow to the will of the majority. Cannon of Fayette, Sample of Morgan and vann of Henry cast the negative votes.
 Speaker Martin, with Mir. Ballard of Autauga in the chair, moved that the House remain In session until o'clock, changing the order made early in the morning for adjournment at 2:30 o'clock Mr. Steaga1l of Dale, the author of House bill No. 108, the fertilizer bill, objected to an immediate recess, until it was agreed that his measure should have consideration at the afternoon session. The House thereupon at 2:15 o'clock took recess until s;3e o'clock.
 Fight Over CeyinEton BiIl.
 The afternoon session was slow in being called to sorder. and slower still in the matter of securing a quorum, but 1t furnished pretty fight after 1t did get started.
 Onlx forty-two members answered to their names when the session was called to order. motion to adjourn was made, but was lost on a tie vote, 21 to 21. A call of the House was then been sent for. the ensuing roll call showed ffty-six membeTg present. two more than a quorum.
 AAC JaousS ftdu agreed 10 Idke up Steagall's fertilizer bill upon recon vening, but Mir. Steagall was not pres- ent, and the bill went over. The call of the counties for the consideration of local bills was taken up, and five local ! measures were passed during the af- ternoon.
 Upon the cali of Covington County, just before F'o.clock, Mir Powell called up House bill No. 455. to create an in- ferior court for Covington County. The clerk had hardly got well started read ing the bill, before Mir. John of Jeffer- son, was on his feet with an objection that the measure was unconstitutional One section of the bill, he pointed out, provided for the election by the Legis- lature of the solicitor of the court to be created. a course that was abso- lutely prohibited by the Constitution.
 Mir. Goodwin of Montgomery re- sponded that the measure affected only one county. and the Representatives of that county wanted their bill fixed that way. The provision for the cleo tion of solicitor by the Legislature, he thought, was not contravention of the Constitution. in that it applied only to the first selection of solicitor, tho office afterwards being an elective one
 To Be Appointed by Governor.
 MT. Powell of Covington said the members of the bar of his county knew the bill was drawn to have the first solicitor elected by the Legislature. and that was the way they all wanted 1t, with possibly one exception. The bill applied to only one county, he said and it was Covingtons own affair if it should prove unconstitutional. He asked the members to pass the bill the way he wanted it. MT. John, in reply. said he had received letters from Cow | ington people in opposition to the fea- l ture of the bill in question.
 Speaker Martin, who had called Mir l Carmichael of Colbert to the chair, took the floor in defense of the pro- posed course of amending the measure, and offered a substitute for the amend- ment proposed by Mir John to stEyA out the section. The Martin am.
 ment, which was accepted by M--' substituted another section, >><M