The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-21
HOUSE VOTES S1,673,OOO IN
 GIFTS TO STATE SCHOOLS

I perance Committee. explained that th' measure. which provides dispensarl at Clanton, had been introduced by Mr 1 Middleton of Chilton, who had requeS ed the Committee not to report the bill until he could be heard. He was now sick at hcme.
 It was stated by one or two member: 1 of the Committee that the bill had beer acted upon favorably by the Committee bps Mir. Ballard explained he had helt IL until the author should return, that IL might not be passed during his ab' sence. as he had expressed a desire te amend the bill.
 On a rising vote, the motion to order the Committee to report the bill was lost by vote of 33 to SS. ,
 Mir. Pitts of Perry called up his bill i House Bill No. 516. to prevent the mort gagee from requiring or permitting the mortgagor to pay the l5 cent tax on the | mortgage. T.iis bill was debated Mon- day. and the vote was taken at once the bill being passed by a vote ot 5S to ls. MT. Tunstall of Hale at once moved a reconsideration, and the bill will again come up this morning.
 The committee appointed to visit the Boys Industrial School at East Lake, l near Birmingham, submitted it's re- port, emphasizing the need of the in- stitution and the good it was doing. and urging the passage of the bill fa- vorably reported by the Appropriations Committee for the maintenance and | improvement of the school
 Immigration BiIl Up. MT. Gunter of Montgomery. the au- thor of the immigration bill, called up that measure. and in a briet speech called attention to its great import ance. The Sta-e, he pointed out. could l go to European countries and secure skilled workmen for the industries of i the South, which individuals could not do. The bill permitted Northern im- | fact desirable men could be secured | from any place.
 He had come to the Legislature, he | said, without any pet" measure, and it was not until after he had heard Gov -ernor Hayward of South Carolina tell of the necessity and advantages of immi- | grafton. that he had become interested and enthused on the question. MT. Bloch of Wilcox favored the bill strongly, as being needed for the up- building of the resources of the State. He referred to the wonderful growth of Cullman County since 1. had been built up by a high class of immigrants, the assessed valuation having increased since 1t was organized from $$20o, 900 to $6.300.000. He regarded the securing of a good class of white men as the solvent of the negro problem also.
 MT. Kornegay of Dallas also favored fhe bill. which would secure a good class of people to tilt the soil and to operate the spindles in Alabama.
 MT. John favored the purpose of the bill. In the course of his remarks, he objected to the discrimination of the bill against the people of Southern Italy. who, he said. were infinitely pref- srable to the negross He declared no would eCfue t6 sAIabanfa where the rate of wages Is the lowest on earth and the cost of living the highest on earth, in preference to going to New Zealand. where. there were no people but Eng fish speaking people. and where the cost of living is low and the wages are high. He favored the bill, however against which he hopec there would not be a single vote. as he thought 1t would solve the negro question,
 Donf Want the "Dagoes.v
 Mfr. Hoffman believed the bill would result in leaving a bad taste In he mouths of the people 1t was not the common people, he said. who were de- manding the passage of the bill. More young men were leaving t1e State ev- cry year than were comiI to It. be- cause the big plan ations were allowed to, lie still, without being worked. No "dagoes," he declared, were needed to work the plantations of Alabama, and he thought there was enough labor here now to work all the plantations that were thrown open to be worked.
 MT. Jenkins of Baldwin, County with many immigrants in it, was in ia vor of taking big step forward and joining hands with tho progressive States of the Union and of the South. He chanced to remark in the course of his speech that he had Teen coming to the Legislature for ten long years"
 tfWiIl thn blandly inquired Mir. Hoffman of Mob le. flor what purpose he has been coming to the Legislature for the past ten years?'
 For exactly the same purpose that I am speaking here today" flashed back the Baldwin soion' and that is to save the State. And I firmly believe we are going to save 1t today. :oo." (Applause)
 MT. Jenkins told in eloquent words of the magic results in the development of a country from the coming of immi grants. They would, he said, take the place of negroes in all lines, and he pleaded for Alabama to join in the on- ward march of progress.
 Mir. Pit s of Dallas had no sympathy with the wholesale denunciation of ne- groes, good and bad, nor did he see any, thing of sentimental nature to It. The question was purely business one; ev- cry city and every hamlet, every mill
 
 vocation. showed the need of more la borers.
 He dwelt on the varied oppor. unities offered by the State to the imm grants He was surprised, he said at the decIa- ration of the gentleman from Jefferson that no immigrants could be secured from England. They could be secured from anywhere, and he wanted the state to go out and get them.
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 Mfr. Rowe of Madison did not need any foreign labor on his farm, and he thought 1t would be very difficult to secure better workmen for the farms than the negro. He wished foreigners could be secured to crowd every negro ou: of the towns and cities back upon the farm. He ,auded the good negro as the truest friend hls own people could ever have, and declared the bad negro was made bad by gambling helIs and low dives of the white man. He would not oppose the passage of the bill, but wanted good immigrants to be secured.
 MT Killen If Lauderdale described the immigrants now in the State as clannish. He thought the best way 10 invite good immigrants to Alabama was by building up the schools. i'm proving the roads and things of that kind. He did not want the scum of European countries settled in the State and rather than see Alabama turned over to that class he would leave the State, He did not want the negroes to leave, and, he said. "a ngger and a Dutchman never could get along to- getheT."
 Mir. Fuller of Blbb favored the bill,