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 to oppose the amendment, but the speaker ruled that, the hour of ;'30 o'clock having arrived, the House, under the rules. stood adjourned until 3 o'clock.
 Amendment Is Satisfactory. When the Speaker had again called
 the House to order for the afternoon
 session MT. Tunstall offered a substi- ute for his proposed amendment, mak- ing the apportionment by mileage ap-
 ply in case of railroad, telephone and telegraph companies, electric power companies and car companies except
 express companies. but leaving the ap-
 portionment according to the business done in other cases.
 Mir. John of Jefferson opposed the amendment as being out of harmony
 with the spirit of the bill. but Mir.
 Foster of Tuscaloosa urged that 1t was eminently fair and should be adopted.
 MT. Maner, on behalf of the com
 mittee. declared he had no objection to
 the changed amendment, and a vote was taken at once, the amendment being adopted by vote of sixty-four to six. Those voting no were Mfr. | Speaker. and Messrs. Hoffman, Long l of Butler, Rushton, Sample and Stea- | gall.
 MT. Tunstall then presented another | amendment. providing that the assess | ment of property under the bill should ! he In the same proportion of It's value aS other property.
 Mir. Maner objected to the amend ment. declaring 1t would require an l endless amount of work to ascertain | what proportion of its value the prop | erty of the State is assessed at. Mir. Tunstall in reply, said the lan- l guage of the amendment was that of 1 the Constitution, and there could be
 no possible objection to it's adoption. Bitl on Final Passage. On roll call, the amendment was lost by 9 vote of twelve 10 ffty.five. Those casting the affirmative votes were Messrs Avery. Barton, RulRer Carmichael of Clay, Cranford, Edwards Johnson. Malone. Parker. Pratt. Rat tray and TunstRli.
 The bill as amended was then read
 the third time and passed by a vote of sixty-four to nothing. Mr. John of Jefferson, of the conn mittee on Rules, presented a resoiu- , ton from that committee providing for continuance of the morning session
 until 10 o'clock. with recess from 6 to 80 o'clock.
 Mir, Hoffman of Mobile wanted to
 amend the resolution so that the House should remain in session until ' o'clock. and that nothing but local
 hills should be considered after 6.sO o'clock.
 Speaker Martin called MT. Foster of | Tuscaloosa to the chair and took the noor against the amendment. appeal | ing to the members to pass the fn- portant bills. Upon his motion, the l Hoffman amendent was tabled and l the original resolution was passed
 The Tax Commission measure, House
 bill No. 26s, was taken un, and Mir. Tunstali of Ha.e proposed an amend ment to strike out the first eight sec. lions Of the bill and change the bal 1 ance, so as to eliminate the Tax Com
 mision and place his duties upon the i Tax Commissioner.
 Mir. Tunstall In support of his amend.
 ment declared the Legislature has 1 done nothing but create new offices and cierkships since 1t had assembled. ''yve 1 have now been here forty-ffve days and have worked thirty days he said i "a record that has not been made by i any other Legislature
 1 Objects to New Onlce. Haven't we accomplished more than I any other Legislatures" asked Mr. Kor-
 reEay of Dallas
 That Is question:" replied Mir. Tunstall. that is to be answered by
 the people. not by myself, or the gen. 1 tleman from Dallas
 
 with the employees of the Governors
 office and Eoing into every oflce on ! each floor of the Capitol Building. sal aries had been increased, and now fl
 was proposed to create more offices. Mir. Long of Butler opposed the rrop- l osition of Mir. Tunstall, and said that | gentleman had voted for all the in- | creases in salaries 10 which objection
 was now raised. He moved to lay tbN amendment on the table, and tEis was | done by vote of 4S to 13. Those | voti1g no were Messrs. Ballard of like Cannon. Hoffman. John. Lee of Hous- ton. Moore, Parker. Pratt, Sample.
 Scale. Thompson, Tunstau and White | of Lamar.
 The bi'I was defeated by a single vote
 on the final roll cal but Mir. Steagall ] of Dale changed his vote from aye to | nay to move a reconsideration. mak- I Ing the result as announced 33 to 35. ! There was considerable confusion ate ! tendant upon the roll call. and a veri- hcat'on of the vote was necessary. The roll call as finally announced fol- 1 lows:
 Measure SuWers Defeat. Aves-Mr. Speaker. Arnold. Avery. l Renrers. Bloch. Bul2er. Carmichael of Colbert, Fawsrds Goodwin. Haley,
 HenIev Hugh@ton. John. Johnson. Kii- len. Kipe, Kirhv. Korreeay Long of | E1t CT FNHeTs hilfCHflls FGGFS. FltFS or l Dallas. Pitts of Perry. Rowe, Rushton.
 Sanford smith of Elmore. Smith of
 Tee. Thompson. Urquhart, Weaver, Woolf-33.
 Navs-Ballard of Autauea: Ballard of Pike: Bal+zell. Barton. Cannon. Carmi- chael of Clay: Crqukord. Crum. Elrod Foster. Gunter. Hoffuan. Jenkins Tsacv of Dal'qs: Lee of Houston; Malone. Moore McMillan. Parker. Powell of Bull lock; Pratt Pueh. Rainer. Rattrav. Rice, Sqmn'e Sauders. Scale, Sherrod. Smith of Franklin; Steagali, TunstaiI. White of Lamar; White of Perry; Will liaUs-35.
 Mir Steaga,l at once offered his mo- ton to reconsider, and MT. Lee of
 Houston, vented to table It. but the Sneaker ruled the motion went over under the rules, and was not subject to such action at that time.
 The Senate amendments to the recip- rocal demurrare bill were received from the upper house and on motion of Chairman Long. of the Committee on Commerce and Common Carriers, the
 House coucurred in the amendment by a vote of 5s to O.
 MT. McCrorv of conecun moved that the House remain in session until s o'clock, taking no recess from 6 to 7s9 o'clock. because of the di91cuifv of sn- curing q quorum for the evening ses- sion. At o'clock. according to his motion. adjournment would be taken until Monday. The motion, however failed of Q majority when put 10 q vote.
 House Bill No. sii, to pay the ex-