The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-26
SH MEASURE PASSES HOUSE Bm Will Protect Finny
 Tribes. CALL THE ROLL SIX TIMES SoIons Transact Little Business in
 Three-Hour Session. General Appropriations Go Through Cenmittees Report Favorabiy on Many Proposed Laws--To
 Visit Mcuptain Creek.


 I ing the long roll six times. possibly ne much longer in the actual trans action of business. with the balance of the three-hour session devoted to dis cuesions and eioquence, the House yes- f&f0ay adtourned over until Monday. One bill was taken from the adverse calendar and placed ofi the regular z calendar for third reading. the meas u<e for the protection of the fish of the State was passed by close vote, E erd the general appropriation measure XaG sent to the Senate with the mark 0k the Houses approval upon 1t. That i6 the full list of the accomplishments X 0X the session of the closing day of tie Legislative week.
 There were. of course. number of reports received from the Committees of the House. and Mfr. Pitts of Dallas C1urify introduced 6 new bill. the only 9fze of the day. as the roll of counties For the introduction of new measures 1RAs not called.
 The bill for the preservation and ufotectfon of fish, prohibiting the use of dxnamite. seining, trapping, etc, was pfoductive os great deal of debate and discussion of q desultory charac- tor The measure. which Is com- pAn1on bill to the Game and Fish corn- t missioner bill passed by the House Thursday. was finally passed by ma J9fity of only six votes.
 Rev. E1Ifotf Opens Session.
 Hev. W. !. Elliott, House superif- tendent of the Alabama Bible Socie- ty. opened the House with prayer. af- i4t which the roll was called. showing nii1tty-nine members present. The journal was formally approved. on re- conamendation of the Committee on Re- vision of the Journal, without read ing:
 Ths House concurred in the Senate 5aint resolution providing for com f4<4% N& nf two from the Senate. to visit the Sol- diefs' Home at Mountain Creek and report upon it's condition. The Speaker named as the representatives of the House on this committee Messrs Kii- len of Lauderdale. Rattray of Cherokee and White of Perry.
 xf conformity with the resolution adopted Thursday, by Mir. Wooff of MAren@o. for a committee of three to Investigate the salaries of officials and clerks af the Capitol Speaker Martin named Messrs Woolf of Marengo, Car michael of Colbert and Hoffman of Mo- bile. Afr. Pitts of Perry renewed his con- test for the precedence of the appropri- ations for the various educational in- stitutions of the State, by the intro- auction of a resolution providing that no other appropriations should be made until the University of Alabama, the Alabama Polytechnic Institute at Au- burn, the Girls Industrial School at hF0ntevallo, the Boys Industrial School af East Lake. near Birmingham, and Hast but not teast," the Soldiers Home Mfr. Pitts at first desired unanimous consent for the immediate considera- tion of the resolution. but the Speak CT pointed out that such course would affect the general appropriation bill, which had been set as a special order < for yesterday at noon, and the reso- lution took the usual course, being re- xerred to the Committee on Rules. :.
 Many Bills Reported.
 Nearly fifty bills were reported fa- vprably by the various committees, and were read by title and placed on the calendar for third reading. Mir Hughston of Lauderda1e created a ripple of interest in the proceedings when he sought to take from the ad- verse calendar House Bill No. 134 re- QMiring the county tax assessor to ex- tend on the tax roll of his county the poll tax at the same time as other taxes, and that 1t be collected at the same time as other taxes, unless the citizen should instruct otherwise. Mir. Hughston explained the purpose of his measure as being to increase the electorate of the State by giving every citizen a reminder of his poll tax, and thereby preventing him from unlnten- tionally disfranchising himself. The only opposition to such a measure he
 
 might seek to control the politics of their counties by reminding their friends to pay their poll tax
 MT. Lee of Huston opposed the meas- nre as a member of the committee that had reported adversely upon 1t. He regarded the bill as unconstitutional
 Mr. Pitts of Perry made a speech in favor of the bill, saying that thous- ands of white men did not vote because their attention was not called to the payment of poll taxes in time, and 1t was overlooked.
 The motion to take the bill from the adverse calendar and refer 1t to the 2 committee of the whole, was carried without further debate. The House thereupon, on motion of MT. Carmichael of Colbert, went into committee of the whole to consider the measure, with Mir. Carmichael in the chair.
 1Ir. Haley of Jefferson moved at once this was done, the committee rising and the bill being, placed on the cal. endar for third reading
 Fish Measure Passes.
 House Bill No. 110. the fish protective measure, which was laid over from Thursday, was taken up as unfinished business, and vote was taken on the pending amendment, to exempt from the provisions of the bill the waters affected by the sbb and flow of the tide, in the lower rivers of the State. The amendment was adopted on roll call by vote of 52 to 30.
 Mir Smith of Etowah, proposed an amendment to let the owners of land