The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-13
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 The road is responsible for our be- ing here" he said Has the time como when corporation should dominate the State? Shall we create something that will get larger than its creator?
 Long on l.. & N.
 T do not hesitate to say that the Louisville and Nashville Railroad has maintained a lobby at Montgomery for twenty years. and 1t Is writhing now because Alabama has adopted laws that have tendency to reform. They are laws that fix a higher rate thar that enjoyed by the same road in other states, and still the road Is not satis- ned. Its president comes here and lays the lash on its servants and they dance to its time. I hope the time has come when the manhood of Alabama will assert itself"
 The amendment was adopted by A vote of ss to 5. and the btll was passed by vote of 72 to 15.
 telegram was received from the national convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union at Nash vile. saying in part.
 We do most earnestly pray the enactment of such law as shall inn mediately place Alabama in line with her mother-State. Georgia, for State wide prohibition"
 After the telegram had been read and several members were allowed to intro- duce local bills. still another railroad bill was brought up. It was the bill to exclude from the railroad commission and the attorney general all power to enforce the various rate laws.
 Scale Given Floor. MT. Scale of Sumter County was the first to gain the floor. He sefd he knew it was useless for him to talk against these railroad bills. but he was going to let 1t be known just where he stood. He spoke at length against the passage of the bill, and said he had been told the lawyers knew more about these bills than he did. What kind of white Democratic Legislature is this? he | asked. He believed the people sent them here to do what they thought was right, and not to take the opinion of lawyers. He was not going to vote on any such theory, he said. The Unit ed States Constitution he said. is our fathers and has been our bulwark and defense. E
 Scales Big Hit. The speaker made his remarks in way that caused , the House much amusement. and when his time had ex pired the House appeared TO be anxious | for more. Amid cres of, Ego on'' and
  eeed. He stigInatized the administra- tion's meas ires as brute force. No good man or just men, he argued, would pass them. He "certainly" thought 1t was right to give the railroad people as much right as other people. They had given people work and brought good times, and he "certanly wanted the good times"
 Many of the members requested leave. to answer MT. Scales questions. He almost invarably replied, 'If you wait awhile you will find I have answered it without your asking" Finally he had more than a dozen questions ad- dressed to him and he promised to an- swer them all in turn. As consequence cries of T am next came from dfffer- ant parts of the House. N
 DO you represent a railroad?" asked Mir Long.
 "Well. if the gentleman wants to go into details" Let's leave off the de- tails came a cry from the far side of the House.
 MT. Smith. of Franklin said it cost the State $2.50 a minute to talk on the floor of the House. He suggested peo- pie should not talk about Europe, Asia, Africa and America. but talk to the point.
 Hoffman is Delighted. Mir. Hoffman said he was delighted to find that some one had not moved the previous question.
 He said the gentleman from Mont gomcry had said members of the ] House had not read these bills. He 1 looked directly at me and admit I | have not.
 MT. Pitts. of Dallas. asks why the bill says the Attorney General shall not prosecute. If the State Is to exclude the Attorney General. who are we to get to go inte court for the State "
 Mir. Long. of Butler. tried to explain the meaning of the bill to MT. Hoffman, but 1t remained for MT. John. of Jefferi- son, to do this. He said this bill was intended to allow these cases to go i'm mediately to court. It took away the duties to go out and prosecute these cases. It was not / proposed on the other hand 10 give an opportunity to have a suit brought against the State.
 MT ..Gunter: Do you un ertake to say that "a suit against an officer is suit against the State? This question MT. John did not answer