The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-29
PRES. MEL SAYS HE WILL
 CONTEST LAW IN COURTS
Many Amendments Turned Down
 in Passage of Measure.
senator Hamburger Fires Hot shot at LusIk and Committeemens Charging Them With In- eonsistency--Now for
 House.


 rhe Senate yesterday under whip and spur rushed through the anti-pass Dill without the newspaper amendment. The bill went through under hurry up" orders, and no time was lost in its discussion. After it's passage, Presi- dent R. E. L.. Neil announced that the Alabama Press Association would test the bill in the courts.
 Amendment after amendment was of fered. and as fast as they were onered they were voted down. The Committee . on Commerce and Common Carriers had met early in the morning and put the amendment to death. The amendment which it destroyed yesterday was the same amendment which 1t had adopted more than week ago, and which it had once favorably reported back to the Senate. But at the express wish of the Governor, the bill and the amendment were taken back to the committee for a further consideration. On its second round. the committee refused to kill the amendment and it was again re- ported favorably.
 But the Governor saw the committee personally The following morning the committee asked the Senate for the re- turn of the bill and the amendment. Everybody knew what that meant, The amendment to be killed as quickly and as quietly as possible.
 Bnl Is Hurried Through.
 The Senate yesterday went to work to get rid of the whole matter as quick Iy as possible. As soon as the commit teas report was submitted, Chairman Ovarton asked that the bill be made snecial order for 1 o'clock. He was riIed out on a point of order. Later, he eot the floor at the proper time, and the hill was set down for special or- der at o'clock. It was seen then the majority was under the heltef that de- lays were dangerous, and the thing to be done was to quickly get rid of the measure.
 30 in It's consideration. the word went ont that all amendments were to be slaughtered. In the rush of time. only two addresses were made, one by sen ator Hamburger who renewed the newspaper amendment in the Senate, and the other by Senator Lusk, mak- ing defense of the acton of the com mittee and the Governor.
 Senator Hamburger was inclined to twit Senator Lusk and other members of the committee with inconsistency,say- ing that they stood for the amendment until a message had come up from the first floor and then they had become suddenly opposed to 1t,
 As soon as the time for the consider ation of the bill hal been reached and it had been read, senator Hays pro- posed an amendment which declared directors of railroads belonged In the class of exempts from the operation or the bill. Senator Lusk declared they were exempt as officers of railroads, and that the amendment was unneces- Bary. At the request Mir. Luek, Sem ator Hays withdrew his amendment
 Commissioners Are o. K.
 Senator Doster moved to amend the bill so that members of the Railroad Commission could ride on passes only when they were on official inspection. Senator Lusk moved the tabling of the amendment, and this the Senate did. The vote was IS to 13.
 Senator Bayles moved the bill be so amended that sheriffs and deputies be given the chance to ride on passes with other exempted classes. but Senator Lusk moved the tabling of the amend ment. and its fate was sealed.
 Senator Blackmon moveu to strike out the words Immediate" where is oc- cured in reference to the family of an a I moved the tabltng of thv amendment and 1t was done.
 Senator Thomas i opposed the bill fix a penalty for railroad commissioner travelling on pass on any other than oticial business, but withdrew his sug- gestion when he was assured the bill covered the point he raised.
 Senator Blackmon moved an amend ment which proviued that Confederate soldiers and their widows should be permitted to travel on a pass but the amendment was promptly voted down, 23 to '.
 Senator Hamburger then proposed the newspaper amendment which had been slaughtered by the Committee. It provided that the bill should not forbid the making of a bona fide contract be- tween a common carrier and a news paper, recognized as such by the Post office Department, by which the news-- paper could sell It's space to common carrier at a rate charged the public and take its pay In transportation.
 Senator Hamburger asked to be heard on his amendment.
 There are some things that ought to be said and l wish to say them in few brief remarks as I got out of sick bed to be present at this session today" rid Senator Hamburger. Be- fore I met the gentleman from Mar shall, and before I came to Montgom- cry, I had heard of him as a rearing, tearing lighter, all over the State But was agreeably surprised In him when I as a member of the Legislative Com naittee of the Alabama Press Assocla- ten. met him with the other members