The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-09

Iay m tNc pApSuSS VI tus sRSasHrc. iHs House might. he thought adopt tht interlineatfons as atnendments. and thus save time.
 At the suggestion of Speaker Mar. tin, Mr. Carmichael moved the appoint. ment of committee of three to inves. tigate the inteflineations and aras. ures and to determine when they were made and by whom. This motion pre-. vailed and ths Speaker named Mir. Car. michael of Colbert. Mir. Tunstall oi Hale and Mir. Long of Butler as the committee, which was. on reau ssI. giv- en permission to meet during the ses. sion of the House
 The investigatfons of the committee
 followed up the course of the bill after
 it had left the hands of the clerk Thursday afternoon. Statements were received as to their connection with the affairs from, Clerk Brown. Repre- sentative Sherrod, Secretary Virgil Grimm Of the Railroad Commission. and Mrs. Gesner. the. expressing clerk
 of the Senate. E.
 The statements of all four agreed in the fact that upon the representa- ytion that Governor Conner desired MT. Grimm and Mrss. Henderson to compare the engrosseds bill with the orig nal,
 MT. Grif1in ,hAd~ induced MT. Sherrod to a eceipt for tho hiil and turn it over to him. He and Mir. Henderson had com pared It., s- &f..f.r
 Engrsssing Clerk Did It.
 we fourid several errors" said Mir. Griffin. in hts statement. T then took the original bill and the engrossed bili
 to Mrs. Gesner. sengrossing and enroll ing clerk of the Senate, and ctiled her atteation to the errors, and she made the correctsoins."
 The statement Of Mrs. Gosner agrees with that of MT. Grimm, with the added fact, she says; stse did not know that the bill had left the hands of her body, aud that 1t was within her province to make the corrections. MT. Griffin stated to the committee that he had not the authority to correct the errors, but supposed that Mrs. Gesner had. Before the report of the committee was ready to submit to the House. just after the afternoon session had been called to order,a messes e was received from the Senate. ask.s that the bill bs returned to. that ts ly for correc- tioA, and on motion of Mir Long, the rsluest was complied with, and the bill returned to the Senate.
 During the short reconsideration of the bill in the Senate a parliamentary fight was several times threate d, but none really developed. although some
 warmth and feeling was displayed. As soon as the bill wtss brought in by Assistant Clerk W. F. Herbert. Sc: a. l tor Lusk, gave the reasons for the re-
 call of the Dill from the House. It had been discovered he explained, that one or two words had been interpolated ] in the bill after 1t had bten engrossed | by the Senate engrossing clerk. T want to know if anybody has dono antyfsfsHV Ia 0 b1arnA Sss asked | Senator Reese
 There is no one to blane." said Senator Lusk. "An error has been
 made without serious blame attaching to anyone"
 II knew that, personally" said sena- tor Reese, but 1 wanted the world to know it, | Senator spragins said as Chairman | of the Committee on Engrossed Bills, 1 he desired to make statement. BnI Bore O. K. Mark.
 "The bill has my Q. K.' on It. safd
 Senator spragins.. T examined the bill 1 carefully and thoroughly, and there were no errors in It. President Hen derson of the Railroad Commission asked me if there was any objection to 1 his examining the important railroad | measures after they had been en' l crossed. assured him there could | be no objection to that. On examin- | ing senate bill is, he discovered wna | he considered an error. although th' | hill had been sent to the House. Int words which were in erpolatsd In tn( 1 bill. and to which +lhe- senator Iron I Marshall objected, were put. there | MT. Henderson's suggestion, he believ l ing that the expressing clerk nao th'
 right to correct the error.
 twas the bill correct when you ex | amined it?" asked Senator Reese
 Tt was," responded Senator Sprag l ins At this Juncture, Senator Black l mon appeared In tie arena with de
 mand for information.
 T would ask the Chairman or tn | committee, If any one had the righ l to make interlineations. or enterpol | late any words in any engrossed pills?
 ''No one has that right" replied Sen ator Spragins. '"Then I demand that the statemen | made by the chairman of the com | mittee on engrossed bills be put upoi ] inc iouranl," said Senator Blackmon. T object to any such thing being put on the journal. It has no bushes 1 there" said Senator Lusk.
 "A fact of this sort has prope l place on the record" said Sendto ] Blackmon. The point, however, wa l not pressed. 2 With Senator Lusk making the mo tIons, the bill was reconsidered, re referred to the Committee on En l crossed Bills, and then reported 1t t' the Senate. Senator Lusk moved th' words company" and classes" be in serted in two places
 The bill was then passed and sent t' the House.
 shortly after the bIil had been sen hack to the Senate, the report of th'
 investigating committee, emoracing thu finding of the committee and the state , ments of the four persons in the af' fair, was submitted tU the House, a. lo4lows:
 "Mr. Speaker:-The committee ap pointed to investigate and report or the interlineatlons which appear 1T
 Senate Bill No. l6 beg leave to repor our finding as follows:
 First. The interlineations were
 made alter the pnl had been received
 by this House and on the calendar.
 Second. The interhneations were
 as folIows: In line two of section
 the word company" was inserted af'
 ter the word person" In llne ten oi
 section the word classes was insert ed after the word except.
 Third. The cnanges were made bS Mrs. Gesner. the enrolling and engross.
 lng cIerk of the senate, after the Dill
 had been tound to be incorrectly en'
 grossed.
 Fourth. The corrections were made
 in order to make the Din conform tc
 the original bill as passed by the Sen ate, the oil having been incorrectly
 engrossed by leaving out. the words aboVe snoWn; but no une had the rIgni