The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-19
NO ACTION IS TAKEN ON
 COMPULSORY SCHOOL BILL
Weekly Support of Hospital Patients
 Raised to $3.50.
Governors Railroad Bill, Giving Right to Sue for Ejectment from Train, Goes Through, but With An Amendment Limiting Time
 to Six Months.

having passed the one of the Gov- ernor's railroad bills, and proceeded as far as 1t could for an increased ap- propriation to the Alabama Hospital for the Insane the Senate yesterday went into a learned discussion of compulsory education, to which entoy- able pastime 1t devoted itself until darkness had enveloped the State House on the Hill. H
 The Senate never did finish with the compulsory education bill. The Senators were still making education al speeches or discussing paternai principles and the Fundamentals on which government is founded when the clock pointed out of the evcn- ing and the Senators adjourned.
 The Hospital Bill increased the week. ly support of each patient from $3 to xs.5O per week. The passage of the bill was the direct result of the in- vestigation of the Hospital made last summer by legislative committee.
 In the Senate, Senator Reese declar- ed in championing the bill. that 1t was the unanimous conclusion of the committee that the evils of any char acter at the Hospital were founded on the small appropriation of s3 per week made by the State for the care, main. tenance and treatment of each of the unfortunate inmates of the Hospital.
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 The Governors railroad bill went through. but, strange, to tell. two amendments were tackled on to it, and, stranger still, the amendments were started by the minority, although, as Is the custom in the Senate, they were revamped by the majority.
 The bill in question was that sec- tion of the Governors new railroad code which allows any person who is elected from a train: when he offers the statutory passenger fare. to bring an action for damage against the road.
 The minority was of the opinion that this was another of those measures which would bring a harvest to the damage suit lawyers, but the majority did not care what the minority
 Senator Sprasins offered resolution leaving out the provision which said that the suit could be brought at any time in ten years. He thought such 6 provision unfair and wished to sub stitute one year in which the suit should be brought. But the majority refused 1t. The vote on tabling the amendment was ayes Is, nays 8.
 Senator Reynolds proposed an amend ment declaring that any person who contemplated bringing suit should serve notice on the superintendent within thirty days aftsr the ejectment. This was amended by Senator Miller to be six months. and, as adopted, was passed by the Senate.
 Senator Jones offered an amendment providing that no suits were to be brought at a longer period than six months after the ejectment.
 The administration Senators made a fight on this amendment, but strange to say, it was made a part of the bill.
 The bill as amended was passed and n. Apa c hA accomplishment of its task of passing inc Governors railroad bills.
 The bill to help the Alabama Bryce Hospital for the Insane was called for by Senator Reese. of Dallas, who was a member of the Committee of Inves- tigation which visited the hospital last summer.
 Fixed at 93.BO Per Week.
 The bill under its original form called for an increase of the weekly appro- priation from ea- for the support of each patient at the hospital to s4.
 Hinder the old law the hospital was sunported by a weekly appropriation of s3 for each patient, out of which all salaries and all building funds were
 In his brief speech explaining the bill Senator Reese said that In the summer he had with the committee spent three weeks at the Hospital.
 "I confess I went there with some prejudice against the institution and its management" said Senator Reese. This was speedily removed. We found that whatever evils had existed were due to the rigid economy that had to be followed at that institution.
 Under the pittance the hospital re- ceived the underpaid nurses could not be kept there more than year or two
 At,.G rIo ho n ha A1lAd hV a. cruits from the country without expe- rience.
 Tt was the unanimous conclusion of the committee that the small evils at the hospital were entirely due to the slender appropriation made by the State. There will not be any objection, I am sure, to my amendment, which fixes the appropriation at $3.50 a week for each of these unfortunate people.
 Above the old soldiers, above the schools of the State, merciful and kind treatment is due these unfortunates living in mental darkness"
 The bill was passed with only five Senators dissenting.
 Some "COmpuIsOEy'' OratOry.
 The gates of the Senate oratory were opened by the compulsory education bill, a measure which had passed the Senate in the July session but which failed in the hOuSe. The SuDJect was named in the Governors call.
 Senator Reynolds fathered the bill as he did the one at the July session. He supported the bill in a thoughtful and forceful speech. He had devoted a great amount of thought and study to the question. This was reflected in his lucid presentation and the way in which he met the various objections that had been raised He anticipated the questions which were directed at him.
 The inevitable negro question. of course arose in the Senate considera- tion, of the bill. The questions came principally from the Black Belt. Sem ators. MT. Reynolds dwelt particular ly upon the careful drawing of the bill which would compel the white parent to send his child to the school, but un- der which the negro parents would not be so compelled.
 He explained that the bill was