The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-07
FIGHT AGAINST
 PISTOL TOTERS
Anti-PiStoI Toting Bill Returns
 to the House
BETTER MEASURE WANTED
House Members Refuse to Caucus on the Subject-Senate Passes Bills Appropriatins Money for
 School Purposes.

Montgomery, August s-CSpecial l-Ats the night session of the house the anti pistol toting bill came back to the house.
 The Hinson bill being substituted for the Rushton bill. MT. Urouhart. who ,n- troduced bill on the subject. got off a. speech in opposition to the Hinson sub- stitute.
 MT. Pitts of Dallas followed Urquhart. favoring concurrence. He said there had never been time when this country was standing upon so dangerous ground as q. present A class of citizens walk boldly upon the streets and roads with pistols in plain view, and no law to stop it. He was tired of individual bills, and thought 1t time for some definite action.
 Mir John thought a conference commit tee would be best believing that a better bill could be drafted.
 MT. Lee of Houston favored concur renee. Mr Rice of Tuscaloosa and MT Haley of Jefferson opposed concurrence and MT. McDuffe of Monroe earnestly supported concurrence, believing the bill the best possible that could be obtained at this session. The house occupied an hour and half on the considerable of the bill and refused to caucus.
 Bills were passed as follows:
 To provide for stenographer for Walker county.
 To permit dispensaries to divide profits between towns and cities.
 To further protect and promote propa- gation of fish,
 To amend the act establishing the board of revenue of Jefferson county,
 To authorize the governor to transfer a judge of the city court of Birmingham to frU 1nu l., tA@ son county
 scrappIng In Senate.
 After scrapping much of the afternoon and part of the evening the senate pass ed the bill for a high school at Ozark carrying appropriation of $50O0 a year.
 The bill to establish a normal school at Moundvtlle with appropriation of s2500 a year was also passed was that for $40O0 for the Plantersville high school The vote on the passage of the bill was Il to IT. MT. Strother made the point or order that requisite number had not voted for the bill, as 1t requires two-thirds of the members elected to pass a bill of this character.
 The point was made that the bill had been defeated, but the chair ordered a new roll call, appeal from the chair at this point failing
 The bill received a vote of 19 to 10 and the president said he did not know wheth- CT or not 1t had passed. He asked the senate to pass a resolution stating the opinion of the body with regard to the passage. Without decision of the ques- tion the senate moved to the bill to pro- vide for regulation of cotton ginning which was passed.
 The question of the legality of the bills for the schools at Ozark was questioned along the same lines.
 Later on the chair said he was informed that the Plantersville school would be under control of the state and he an- nounced the bill passed
 The bill to require sherlffs to procure lists of holders of federal liquor licenses In their counties was passed and the bill for uniform negotiable instruments was taken up
 The pistol bill was returned from the house with a disagreement voted. Messrs Hinson, Reese and Thomas were named as a committee on conference. The ne- gotiable instruments bill was passed o3 to 9.
 The governor today signed the bill for law and equity court at Mobile and ap- pointed Saffold Berney to the position Of judge.
 He also signed the bill to provide for re- funding debts of municipalities. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ famous licks is ig Lone Lick, in Boone county, Kentucky, where there have been found not only bones of huffaloes, deer and other animals common in Amer ica when this country was discovered, but also bones of the fossil elephant the mastodon the caribou, the long legged buffalo and the musk OK of centuries ago.
 Although the Louisiana mines and the Salton Sink have made the industry pie turesque in this country there is nothing in America as strange as the salt city of Weiliczds in Austria. The Austra-IIun- gary government maintains a monopoly in salt. and for centuries 1t has drawn upon these mines a source of supply. A city of salt has been hewn beneath the earth and railroads are not allowed to come near 1t lest the vibration should cause the earth to bury it's population.
 The town has churches, schools, restau- rants and other buildings that go to com- pose city, all cut from the dazzling rock salt veins and representing In the aggregate 1000 years of toil One featura of this city of salt Is an immense ball room orfiamented by wire-hung chande- Hers of rock salt, gistening with Va rious lights and colors.
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