The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-23

operation would be to the advantage Of the bar of Alabama. The bill pass ed the House but encountered break. CTS when it came over to the Senate.
 The Judiciary Committee killed tke bill but provided a substitute allowing the clerk $1.S00 instead of $1,200 for an assistant clerk. On the floor of the Senate, Senator Lusk took the floor in support of the substitute. The present Clerk of the Supreme Court, he declared, was an estimable and splendid gentleman. He had endorsed him every time he was an applicant for the place and he would continue to do it as long as he ap- piled. But he was opposed to the fee system under which the office was pre- viously operated.
 Until the new code went into effect. he said, the office presented the anom . alous condition of clerk receiving more than the Chief Executive of the State, and more than the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He said the office had paid under the fee system from $1o.00o to $15.00o.
 Drinking Whiskey on Trains.
 The Senate passed the bill of Mir Pitts. of Perry, amending the law for bidding the drinking of whiskey on passenger trains. As amended the bill provides that railroads may post up printed copies of the bill but will not be required to do so under the law Under the original act the railroads were forced to print the, entire act and hang it up in every passenger car The Carmichael bill regulating trans fers of real estate so that modern ideas could prevail in the record was called up and passed. The bill provides that tyepwriters may be used in the trans fer There was no objection of any sort to the bill.
 The Lovelady pharmacy bill. with it's clerical errors corrected, was passed.
 The bill of Senator McWhorter to le- galize the dissecting of human bodies died on the calendar. Under the rule previously adopted by both houses only Senate bills could be considered in the House and only House bills in the Sen ate. pr. McWhorter's bill, being a Senate bill. had no chance of passing through the House because of lack of time and it died on the calendar.
 Governor Has Amendments.
 The Governor sent an important amendment to the bill authorizing suits for damages to be brought by any per- son against common carriers which failed to obey the statutes regulating railroads. The amendment first limited the time in which suits may be brought to five years.
 While the bill was passing the min ority Senators endeavored to get in a limiting amendment, but the majority would have none of it. The Governors amendment was promptly adopted.
 His second amendment provided that if the act was enjoined in one court, 1t could be set up in another court that the injunction was secured through collusion and the burden of proof to show that there was no col fusion should be upon the railroad.
 Senator Reese objected to this amendment He had voted for the rail- road bills, but the amendment proposed discredited the integrity of one court for a suit in another. It was in vio- lation of the old custom of court dis posing of the matter that had been committed to it's care. But the amend ment was adopted.
 The Senate having completely cleared its calendar. adjourned until 1O:30 o'clock this morning.