The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-09

Geneva and MT. Oliver of Chamber' were excused for today.
 suhstituie Anti-Lsbby Bfli. The anti-lobby bill, H. B. Nc. 15 which was recommitted to tue Judi ciary Committee. some two weeks ago with the provision that t was not te lose it's place on the calendar as ( spociai order. and which was reported back thls week with substitute. was called LID by Mir. John of Jefferson the Chairman of the Committee.
 Mr: John explained the suhetittitC had been prepared by Il sub -commit- tee The first section was identical with that in the first measure. and the sccond section was based upon inc iirst paragraph of tho, second section of the original bill.
 After the substitute bill had been yeaa for fhc Information of tho mem bers. Ii was adopted by ihc House o;' roll cali. b. vote of co to 10. Those votints no were Uenser. f'arMjahie! of Clay, cruni, Doyie Of Clarke. Dudley tuet oi Dallas. nMenc, Pearson. Ratt- ray and Scale, -
 Mir. John gaze ti,e members an cx- pIaDation or the substitute bill, read ing in connection ,fran the State Con stitu.joi and the Democratic State platform. He did not know how q niIder bill could br drawn to carry out the rceuirGments. Il did not cur- tail. he said, inc privilege of single legislator or siGsie citizen Of Ala bama. It required only that when the+ came to the Legislature they tel what they are here For
 In reply 10 q question by Mir. Bloch of WILCOX Mr. John said if was his uudcrstandiEg that ali who come 10 inc Capitol to discIss pending icgisla- ton. without compensation. are re- quired to register. but no punishment attncI.es to failnre to go so,
 MT. Scale of the committee sal It had teen his understanding the bill did not make 1t mandatory for a private citizen to register. but the bill made 1t mandatary. although it provided no punishment for his failure to do So.
 MT. Bulger. of Tallapoosa, proposed an amendment Co permit persons. act ing withor. eornpeusafioE to discuss lexisIation wIti members without reg istesing. N
 Bulgcr Amendment Lost. c
 MT. John opposed the amendment on the ground that If adopted it would throw the doors open to employees and officials of the great corporations to be excused from their regular duties to come to Montgomery to lobby. un- der the claim they received no extra pay for such services.
 Mir. Kornegay. of Dallas, thought the bill was all right and there would be no objection to registration by citi- gems.
 MT. Gunter, of Montgomery. strong ly supported the measure, which he thought just one. There was noth- ing to prohibit private citizens, acting without pay, to speak with represen- tatives without registering.
 MT. Rushton. of crenshaw, thought the provision for all to register was the means by which the distinction might be drawn between paid attor- neys and private citizens.
 MT. Hughston. of Lauderdale, favored the amendment, as. dnder the bill, without 1t a private citizen who might register to discuss one bill and then asK a member anout another measure would be guilty Of making an untrue entry and would be subject to punish
 MT. steagaIi, of Dale. thought there would prove to be a great moral force in the publicity behind the bill that would acnieve the desEed result.
 Mr Urqunart, of JeHerson, pleaded the bill should be adopted as 1t came from the committee without amend ment.
 MT. Bulger, of Tallapoosa, closing the debate the previous question nav ing been ordeFed, contsnded there was no great danger ot corruption, and aenled any iawmaker had been cor. rupted for twenty-nye years, and said 1t was entirely unnecessarily to require the citizen or Alapama wno comes to see his representaJlve to register.
 The sVole on the Buiker amendment was then taken, the amendment being ,ost on a vote of 37 to Az. as follows:
 Ayes--Altord, Arnvad. Barton, Sen ners, Biocn. Buiger. Carmichael. of Clay; co.eman. or Lowndes; Coieman. or .aarsnan; Cranford, Crum, Doyle, or Clarke; DoyIe, or Marengo; DudIey, El- rod, aenIey Honman, hughston. John son, Lindsey, Long, Of Morgan; Malone, Moore, Mo Dune, McMIIian, Parker. reArson, Pitts, of DalIas; koweii, ot CovIngIon; Eugh, Rainer, kattray, Rice. Seale, smith or f'rankiin; tunstatl, Wt- nams--37.
 Nays---Mr. Speaker. Ballard of Au- tausa, Ballard of Pike, BaIlzell. Brown, Burney, Cannon, Carmichael of Col bert, Cooper. Poster. Fuiler, Goodwin, Gunter, laaiey John, Jones, King, kIr- by, kornegay, Lancaster, Lawson, Lee of Etowan. Long of Butler, Lovelady Lyons. Maner, Middleton, Mitchell, Nc Crory, Pitts of Perry. Power, Pratt kagsdale. Rowe, Rusntons sample, saul ders, sanford. Sherrod, Smith of El- more, Smoth- of Etowan, smith of Leo. SleHKatI, NtAbhOAet W eaver, WoOlf-4S.
 Absent and not voting--Altman, Arm strong, Arrlngton, Avery. Benson, Ed wards, Glover, Jenkins. killen, Lacy of Dallas, Lacy of walker Lee of Bar bour, Lee of Houston. Norville. OlIvor, Peete, PowG4I of Bunock. Price, Nann, White of Lamar. White ot Perry-21.
 Final Passage Unanimous.
 Upon final passage the message was passed by a vote of 73 co and after a motion to reconsider had been tabled, the House, at 1:20 o'clock, adjourned until o'clock.
 At the afternoon session htty-slx members responded to their names.
 Mir. John of Jefferson called up House bill No. 154, to authorize the of a chief clerk at s1,S00 per annum, two assistapts at $i,5OO per annum each. and a stenographer at S75O for tho State Treasurers office. After considerable trouble In obtaining a quorum to vote on the bill the sub st!tute offered by Mir. John was adopt ed, 4s to 9, and the bill was then passed.
 Mir. Pitts of Dallas presented res olution providing that next week, when the night sessions are to he held, the morning sessions should De de- voted to special orders, the afternoon sessions to special or local bills. and the night sessions to the considera- ton o. the calendar. The resolution was referred by Acting Speaker Crqu- hart to the Committee on Rules.
 The passing of local bills was then taken up. and their consideration was continued until the hour for adjourn mont was reached,