The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-07

Speaker Carmichael relinquished the chair to MT. Tunstall and took the hoor to offer an amendment that all school sites selected for these high school must be five acres in extent. and these five acres must be deeded to the State. It was the purpose of this amendment, as explained by the Speaker, to prevent these schools go- ing up in thickly settled towns. The amendment really had the same effect as the one offered by Mir. Lee. as far as the localities of school sites is con- cerned. It was adopted by the House.
 AS a special courtesy the House allowed Mir. Rattray to take the floor and speak in behalf of the bill It was the maiden effort of the gentleman from Cherokee and he was listened to with marked attention. The burden the members of the House could not do too much for the cause of edu- cation. He told how he had watched the system grow Tn this State, and said that he had carefully studied the effects of increased school facilities. He was heartily in favor of any bill, he said, that would ssytematize the schools of the State.
 The bill went to a vote and was car- ried as amended by almost full vote of the House.
 By special consent Mir. Lyons of Mobile was allowed to introduce res- oiution p1edginE the Legislature to the cause of deeper water for the har- bor of Mobile and for a thirty-foot channel way The resolution is to be engrossed and sent to the members of both houses of the Federal Congress. dastin Dog Bill Killed.
 Two minor bills had been hastily disposed of at the afternoon session, when the Mastin dog law came back to the House with an amendment which was a substitute. It made some heavy penalties for keeping dogs with out having paid the proper taxes thereon.
 MT. Arnold of Calhoun, thought 1t would be a bad idea to put on the statute books the bill as 1t was sent back by the Senate. It would be bad thing, he said, to put fine on man just because dog was round Tn his house without having had a H. cense paid for 1t. He moved not to concur in the Senate's amendment and was sustained by the House.
 A motion to ask the Senate for a committee to confer was defeated, yeas, s3. nays. 35 This has the ef- feet of defeating the entire bill.
 Raiiroad Bill Passed.
 Senate Bill No. 343, to regulate the giving of bills of lading or receipts for property received by any common carried, railroad or transportation com pany for transportation originating and terminating with in this State. was called up.
 MT, Pitts of Dallas. thought the bill not a good one because 1t put unneces- sary liability on the railroads.
 MT. Long thought otherwise and MT. John said MT. Pitts must have made a mistake in reading the bill.
 It was passed.
 The bill to give to the Railroad Commission power to change the classification of freight and charges for transportation was passed.
 Against the Wire Lines.
 To put telegraph and telephone lines under the charge of the Railroad Com mission. MT. Tunstall offered an amndment to Senate Bill No. 520, which was adopted, and the bill sent back to the upper House.
 The bill to establish and maintain a state sanatorium for consumptive and tuberculosis patients was passed by the House after MT. John had told the members of the object of the amendment as being to take the cost of Keeping free patients off the coun- ty and place it on the State.
 Tn support of the bill to make ap- organizations for erecting monuments to commemorate the heroic deeds of Alnbarna sons, MT. John said there was not State in the Union that had more spots to commemorate than had Alabama.
 Plea for MOnumente.
 He spoke of the positions held by the Alabama brigade and said 1t pierced the Federal lines to greater depth at Gettysburg than did any other body of Confederate soldiers. He spoke of the action of the State, of New Jersey in erecting a monument on the face of one side of which was a tribute to the gallant Alabamians whom they fought in that spot
 He referred to the monument on the north side of the Capitol and said when it was erected he heard it re- marked that it would be better to have spent that money on the schools. In reply to this, he argued that the money would not have lasted an hour in the educational work of Alabama, but that monument would teach the children of the State for all time to come, of the heroic deeds of their fore fathers
 When he concluded speaking. he re- ceived the hearty applause of the mem bers of the House. who passed the bill.
 Senator spragin's bill to exempt from taxation the Tennessee Valley Fair Association was passed by the House.
 Auto Bill ls Passed.
 An effort was made to table the Sem ate bill to regulate the operating of automobiles on public roads by some of the Jefferson delegation but 1t failed.
 MT. Haley objected to the bill be- cause it makes 1t a misdemeanor for a man to fail to stop an automobile when approaching a horse or mule when he knows or ought to know it Is frightened He called 1t freak leg islation" It was passed.
 MT. John offered an amendment to Senator McWhorters billo to establish an epileptic colony, which cut the ap- propriations from $100,00O to $2O, O,0O0.