The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-24
HOUSE WORKS TO SMALL USE |Accomplshes Little in
 Long Session. PASS RATTRAY RESOLUTION Presidents Discharge of Browns, vile Troops Endorsed. j smith Biii, Affecting Incorporation of small Towns, Goes Through.
 General Lee Makes Address
 to Legislators.

For four hours and a half, the House was in session yesterday morning. and but little was accomplished. The vote by which the Capitol building bill was passed Tuesday, was sought without avail to be reconsidered; measure relating to the manner of the incor- poration of towns was passed; seventy four new bills were prS1ented to the House; and entertaining speeches were delivered by Mir Pitts of Perry on the relationship that exists between the education of the children of the State and the completion of the Capitol. and by Mir. Lee of Houston on the preserva- ton of the fish and game of the State.
 A joint session of the two Houses was held at o'clock to compare the jour nals of the two Houses regarding the vote for Senators Tuesday noon. Sena- tors Morgan and Pettus being formally declared reelected to succeed them selves as Senators by Lieutenant-Gov- ernor Gray. This formal ceremony constituted a fitting climax of formal ity to a day in winch there was noth- ing of the informal or startling from beginning to end
 Following the joint session. stir ring address was delivered in Repre- sentative nall by General stephen D. Lee. Commandment Chief of the United Confederate Veterans. and the Presi- dent of the Vicksburg National Park Monument Association. upon the neces- sity of action by the Alabama Legisla- ture. looking to the marking or the graves of Ala abama soldiers who fell In the erection of monuments at historic spots on the battlefield to mark the valorous deeds of Alabama troops dur ing that siege,
 Endorse Rooscveit's Action.
 At che conclusion of the address of General Lee, the House adjourned until this morning at 10:S0 o'clock. without completing a roll call that was in prog ress on minor amendment to the nsh and gane bill.
 House without division were two joint resolutions. One of these was the res- olution introduced the first of last week by Colonel Rattray of Cherokee County. endorsing the action of Presi- dent Roosevelt in his discharge of ne- gro troops responsible for the rioting at Brownsville and the other was the resolution calling upon Congress for the return of the cotton tax Illegally assessed and collected after the war between the States to the various cot ton-growing States.
 4 number of important measures are among the grist of seventy-fouf new bills introduced. although there is an
 
 bills ard of comparatively uninpor- tant general bills One new .rneasure, by Mir. Rushton, of CrenshawS author izes the keeping of bloodhounds by Tuscaloosa. provides for alp inspection of the jails and almshoases. MT Maner. of Montgomery. presented measure regulating the nractice of dentistry in the State: and MT. Arnold, of Calhoun. has pro ,osed enactment for the expenditure of S50,e00 annually 'or he erection and maintenance of school houses.
 Rev. John Bass Shelton, pastor of the Adams Avenue Baptist Church, of Mont gomery. opensd the session of the House with prayer, and the roll call which followed showed 1ol members present. The journal of the preceding day was aporove,; without reading a resolution exteadinG the sympathy of Ire House Rep: esentetive Jan es Armstrong of Jackson county, upon the great bereaveLent he has suffered in was adopted unnninionsly. upon "is- ing vote.
 Hoffman RuisvA Excitement.
 Al this p"it Y Enc proceeding. Hr IT. Tfman, of MpHilU. stirred up r;.i1i' of excitement by motion to recon slider the adoption of the rule by which no special orders arc to be secured eX- cept after actiun by the committee on rules. He said tho rule as adopted left the members Of the House absolutely in the hands of the Rules Committee and he could see the time comin~ when the members would find it impossible 10 have their bills made special orders He characterized tlls rule as undemO- cratic
 Chairman John. of the Rules Com mittee, said the purpose of the ruA was to expedite business, and promised that every bill would be given the besl anI haf ble. consistent with the true legisla tion of the House. He pointed out tha when a simple motion to make b'i special order was made, there wa' no opportunity on the floor to give ! careful consideration to the comparR- tive importance of various measure: before the House. as fin committee. H' did not believe the members desireS to have important legislation held LII by some local bill.
 If we could be assured of promp action" responded Representative Hoff man. sarcastically. "it might be wei to turn over the whole calendar to th' Rules Committee to be made up.'
 MT. Carmichael, of Colbert, pointed out to the members that the calendar was the regular order of the proceed
 tugs of the House. and that special or ders were to the detriment and delay of the regular calendar. lie main tained an individual member should no be permitted to advance some prlvat' bill to immediate consideration, to tn detriment of the calendar of thu House.
 For Incorporation Of Towns.
 Mir. Steagell. of Dale. also spoke II support Of the rule in question. Upon d motiona by MT John to tabl the motion for a reconsideration, MI Hoffman demanded a roll call, but fail ed to have hlS demand sustained. Tn motion to reconsider was then table on a rising vote, 65 to 15-
 I,n f,u Smith Of Elluonrf relating to the incorporation of towns was called up by its author, havini besn'sanade a special order for yester day It was explained by its author alter which 1t was passed by a vot of g. to 3, the nays being cast by Can non, Elrod and Rattray.
 The measure changes the number O freehoiders and electors necessary tt sign petition for an election looking to the incorporation of town iron fifty to twenty-five. Mr. Smith drew attention m his remarks to Tallassee Fillmore County, which, he said, has { muster O about forty five qualified sgners fC such a petition. thereby be ing preventel from incorporating un der the present. law. .
 It was at this juncture that MT. Pitt of Perry made his motion to reconsid CT the vote by which the Capitol I'm provement b'n was passed Tuesday. was necessary, he thought; to provid: for the University, the Auburn school MonteVallO building school houses ant other worthy purposes before passing the Ca"itol epprtnriation. and there was part of the bill which he thought should be Topped" oft entirely, includ ing the erection of a Governors man sion. and the erection of a rear wins for tho Supreme Court. which h' thought could be accommodated in thu proposed north wing
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