The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-04

two days--days which promise to b.
 strenuous and full of work. So many.
 of the members of the Legislature was expressed that there would pot
 be enough to make . quorum when the two houses meet Tuesday morning. Only one committee of the Senate met yesterday and no committee Of the House held . meeting, 70 scarce
 were the lawmakers yesterday. The Senate Committee on Finance and Tax | ation met yesterday morning and cleared its docket of . number of bills of minor importance. In most in-
 stances adverse reports were given the
 bills.
 Today will be the last day on which a committee can work. Under the Constitution no bills can be reported
 in either House after tomorrow. More over. in the House only Senate bills will be reported. and in the Senate
 only House bills will be reported. Senate Will Easily Ffnlsh.
 The Senate will easily finish its work. During Friday afternoon all
 the Senators had opportunity of call- ing up local bills until there were no more local bills to be called up. Some local bills will probably be reported | at tomorrow's session, but they will be quickly passed on Wednesday. The Senate also made rapid head. | way on its special order and general bill calendar. More general bills were passed Friday than on any day since
 the beginning of the session. Inere are now no big general bills left on l the calendar. They have either been passed or killed.
 The most important general bill. or at least the one in which most inter- est is being manifested, and which still
 remains on the calendar, Is the gen eral dog law. This is the bill that fixes a tax of 31 on each dog over four months old in the State. While there are a number of general bills on the calendar. they are not or | special importance. nor are they oills l in which any special interest Is taken. Filibustering was charged to the members of the House during the last l few days, and fiiibustering was as wig | orously denied by many members of the
 House Now that 1t is all over and 1t would be impossible to get through any Senate bill on the House calendar and impossible to get through any House bili on the Senate calendar, 1t Is prac- tically admitted by the leaders of both departments of the Legislature that diiiatory methods were resorted to In both houses in order that certain bills might fail.
 FearsA suaAay Train BiM. In the House the bill mostly feared was the bill that denied the railroads tho right to operate their freight trains on Sundays A bill to this end had been
 defeated in the House. but there had been another, which is said to have met
 with tho Governors approval which had been introduced into the Senate This bill gave to the Railroad Commits
 sion of the State the right to stop the running of Sunday freight trains at any time when the commission was sat- isfied that 1t was unnecessary to opeT- ate them.
 In as much as the House had already turned down the proposition to stop such trains on Sunday, the House was apprehensive that this measure might be passed by the Senate and that it would be called upon to pass on the same.
 when the House adjourned on Fri | day night it was with the full under standing that ths Senate had turned down this bill.
 It was noticeable in the House that | as soon as the word had been received | that the Senate had turned down this l bill. there was an immediate desire | among the leaders of the House to ad- l journ although several motions had
 been made in this direction before and | on every occasion the member making the motion to aQJOurn Wouiu O0 HI l duced to withdraw 1t.
 The charge is made, and 1t Is not de-
 nied, that the House wasted much val uabIe time on Friday, but. as one mem 1 Der put 1t, 1t had enacted all the laws there were desirable and was therefore | anxious to shut off any debate on oth- | CT bills.
 | that at all previous night sessions or | inc House, there had been from twenty | to forty bills disposed of. but at the Friday night session only two bills re- | ceiyed any sort of consideration. Rushton Firearms Bill. o1 the bills that the House has | passed and which must now be acted
 nnor hv the Senate there is the Rush. ton biii which the originator believes | will become a law. It is the bill that nroyides a heavy penalty for anyone
 not an oficer of the law, to carry nistoI. gun. or air gun, that Is less than | twenty-four inches in length. It makes no difference whether the weapon ID | concealed or carried openly.
 Mr Rushton is of the opinion that
 b,s bill will be readily passed through
 the Senate because the leaders or the
 Senate have been calling for just such' Q hill and there is no Senate bill on the l calendar that has been passed that MT. | Rushton believes is as effective as is
 Al the Tuesday session both Houses l of the Legislature will elect Joseph F. l Johnston to be the junior United states Senator at Washington. This action | w,II he confirmed when tho Senate ana | the House meet in joint session on | Wednesday to ratify the vote Of the two Houses taken separately, A number of measures are left on the calendars of both the House ana sen. zen. ate that originated in tho respective houses. These, for the greater par., have been covered by other piiis n ~ have been passed, and with the excep- ton ton of the measures that it was de-
 termined should not come up TOT .Hoad con,
 pnoaQureS caused