The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-27
HOUSE VOTES TO ESTABLISH
 IMMIGRATION COMMISSION

House Bill No 519. requiring a license
 fee of s750 for peddling patent or pro-
 prietary medicines, or for taking or
 ders for present or future delivery of
 goods at retail Objection was made
 that the bill embraced two distinct sub-
 jects and was therefore unconstitu-
 tional. It was recommftted to the
 Committee on Public Health, to have any weak points repaired.
 MT. Pitts of Perry offered joint res olution providing for a session of the two Houses at 12:30 o'clock to listen
 to words of wisdom to our people from E. D. Smith, President of the Southern Cotton Association. It was referred at once to the Committee on Rules. despite the request of MT. Pitts for immediate consideration. He final ly, at the suggestion of Speaker Car michael, offered motion directing the Committee to meet at once and report immediately. The Committee later re- ported favorably upon 1t. fixing the hour at 12:45 o'clock. and 1t was adopt ed.
 Mir. Smith of Fillmore offered a joint resolution, which was adopted under suspension of the rules. directing the presiding officers of the two Houses to certify to the State Auditor the amount due for the mileage of the Senator and Representative from the new County of Houston. whose mileage has never been fixed by law.
 MT. Urquhart called up the motion made by him last week. and set for yesterday morning, for the reconsider- ation of the Immigration Department bill. The measure had been defeated he said, without a full and free discus
 sion. The friends of the bill had now
 he said, substitute measure which he felt would meet all the objections to ha -iytn al yont p-
 proval of the Governor.
 HughstOn Opposes Measure. Mir. Hughston of Lauderdale opposed the motion to reconsider. The major ity of the House had spoken. and that
 should be sufficient He denied the de-
 bate on the bill had been anything but full and free before the defeat of the bill. He closed by moving to lay the motion to reconsider on the table. MT. Pitts of Dallas supported the measue, declaring 1t was highly im- portant to the State to let Its wonder fully rich resources become known to the world.
 The proposed substitute was then read for the informa tion of the House It provides for an Immigration Com mission. to consist of the Governor the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries and an Immigration Con- missioner, the latter to receive sal arv of S2,400 per annum
 MT. Gunter of Montgomery spoke ir favor of the bill pointing out its good features in a telling manner. and in sisting on the necessity of taking ac- 1 tion to bring in immigrants to fill ur | the great vacant spaces in the State 1 There was a population of less than | thirty to the square mile in Alabama | despite It's great resources. while IT some parts of Europe there were as tn ho mi MT Bulger of Tallapoosa had voted against the original bill. but thought | the substitute was as perfect bill or | the subject as could be drawn, and ht | would very willingly support 1t. MT John of Jefferson thought there | was very grave need for immigrants | in Alabama, a need which was em- phasized by the wonderful achieve ments of immigrants In various sec tIops of the State, to which he refer red
 The motion to reconsider was ther passed by a vote of 4e to 24 and tho | substitute adopted by a vote of 57 tt | 29, as follows:
 Substitute is Passed Ayes-Alford. Arnold. Avery. Bait zell. Barton, Benners. Bloch, Bulger | Burney, Cannon, Coleman of Lowndes | Cooper, Crawford. Crum. Dudley. Ed
 wards. Foster, Fuller, Glover. Good
 wyn, Gunter, Haly, Hoffman. Jenkins l John, King, Kirby. Kornegay. Lacy O
 Walker. Lancaster, Lawson, Lee of Et
 owah, Lee of Houston. Lindsey. Lone | of Butler, Lyons. Malone. McDuffie, Me Milan, Oliver, Parker. Pitts of Dallas | Pitts of Perry. Powell of Bullock
 Price. Rainer. Rice. Rowe. Sanford | Scale. Sherrod, Tunstal1 Turner
 Woo19@t7 TrqThart; Weaver White of Perry
 Nays-Armstrong. Ballard of Au'
 tauga, Ballard of Pike. Carmichael Of | Clay, Carmichael of Colbert. Coleman | of Marshall, Doyle of Clarke. Elrod | Henley, Hughston, Killen, acy of Dal' | las. Long of Morgan, Maner, Mitchell Moore. McCrory, Power, Rattray, Rush
 ton, Sample, Sanders. Smith of Fillmore
 smith of Etowah. Smith of Franklin Smith of Lee. Steagall, Vann. Williams | 20.
 The bill was then read the third tim'
 and passed by a vote of a1 to 23. Th' | retailed vote was practically the sam'
 as on the adoption of the substitute | except for absentees. only one or t"' | changes were made.
 MT. Gunter at once moved to recon l slider the vote by which the bill haC 1 passed. and to indefinitely postpone 1 such reconsideration. When this mo
 tion had prevailed, preventing any fur
 ther reconsideration. the bill was or l derod sent at once LO the Seildle, "ith l out engrossment.
 Chairman Lyons of the Appropria tions Committee. called up House Bil | No 7SS. making an additional appro l priation of $25.000 for legislative ex | penses, and the bill was passed by 1 vote of Fl to o. There was no debate 1 The Senate amendments to the Dll l increasing the salaries of judges Q
 the State, was next taken up, and ha'
 not been concluded when the hour wa
 reached for the address by '. D. Smiti
 nf the Southern Cotton Association, an' l the recess for dinner was taken immed
 lately upon the conclusion of his ad | dress The various Senate amend ments to House bills, in which tn | lower branch of the Legislature rcfus
 ed to concur. were taken up at the af | ternoon session, these amendments an' | the consideration of the Tax Commis
 sion bill occupying the entire after l noon.
 During the afternoon. MT. King O Jefferson( introduced. in somewhat al
 tered form his bill to put the probat | judges and other county officers ol
 salary instead of fees in the large
 counties of the State. Another bill O
 the same nature was introduced ap
 plying to the clerk of the Suprem | Court.