The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-20
Floor of Senate Crowd cd With the Prohibi- ton Workers Who Cheer and Hiss.
Scene Without Parallel in History of the State as Arguments fol and Against Prohibition Pro. gress- s--Agreement Extends Date for Law to Become Effective and Removes Opposition to
 Appropriation for Maintenance.

Tn little more than thirteen months, Alabama will be dry. January l, 1sOs, is the date set by the House bill, as amended yesterday afternoon by the Senate. q
 Shouting, cheering and hissing q great crowd of prohibitionists with sprinkiing of antis, packed the chamber Of the Alabama Senate yesterday until Senators were crowded from their seats aud Enthusiastic prohibitionists were pushed forward until they cneerso within few feet of the Presidents desk, and thus packing the chamber they saw the Carmichael Statutory Prohibition Bill passed under an agree nient which makes 1t become enective in Montgomery. Mobile, Dallas and a few other counties on January T. 1903.
 The. scene was without parallel. in the history of the State. .Demonstra- tiuns have been heard from the gallery, but never before from the floor at the elbows of the Senators. The galleries have been packed before. but never De- fore has the floor of the Senate been 50 thronged that the Senators were It, efally forced to leave their places and stand among or just in front Of the mass of packed humanity.
 Senator Hammer Kissed.
 On one for two occasions speaker on the floor has heard his remarks greeted by a soft and almost secret 
 Alabama Senate witness the scene Of Senator being stridentiy and discor- dantlv hfseed--never was such htss heard at the Capitol as the sibillant roar that went up when Senator Ham ner was speaking against the pMi-
 The Etowah Senator, surprised, halt ed in his speech for perhaps thirty sec orsds whiis the hissing continued. And then. shcwinx neither anger nor lear, he continned his remarkA Asaipst the bill. He declared that there could be but omsE motive for the assepnlin& or such crowd, for the unusual scene yvhich the Senate was witnesstng--the purrose to influence the vote or tne Eerata Hass could not, he said be moved by such a demonstration. ne was not to be moved from ms princi- ples either by misses or by cheers:
 President Gray rebuked the hissers ana announced that the galleries and the Senate lobby would be cleared 1T there was a repetition of the incident.
 outside of this, no restraint of any character was put upon the demonstra- tions of the visitors. The Senate doorss not only of the gallery but or the chsmber Itself. were lung open to the -rsaf crovd composed mainly of wo- men. children and ministers.
 Senator TeasfeY sought at hrst to nrotast against the Senate's being crowded at its work by throng Of visitors, but he later, withdrew his pro- test. -....
 The visitors were ardent and enthus- tastie. Cheer after cheer would greet tle periods of some prohibition speak CT, And as they cheered men and wo- men would sometimes wave handker- chiefs. Again some speaker would pc rewarded for his utterances with now ars thrown from the gallery.
 The crowd on the floor of the Senate. large enough at first. steadily increased within d few minutes the visitors were occupying perhaps a third of the Sen sforial chairs on the floor. while the Senators stood about among the sdesks or back among the massed visitors. Now and then some Senator who was ready to speak had to step forward from the advance line so that he would be recognized by his fellow Senators.
 The visitors wore great white badges on which was printed statutory pro. hibition for ALL Alabama" with "ali in capital letters.
 Some Enthusiastic prohibitionist from Mobile, wearing one of these white badges, was showed forward by the hacked mass behind him until he was within e few feet of the press table and the Presidents chair. When the crowd cheered he would wave ms nat with one hand, his handkerchief Wlth Tho other and let out yell which might have been heard far down Dex- ter Avenue.
 The antis were not without friends in the big crowd, but their friends were in a hopeless minority. They had the courage, however. to applaud the anti Senators. although they knew that the applause but spurTed the prohibition ists to redoubled cheering at the next opportunity.
 Protests Against Characterization.
 Senator Reese of Dallas County sev- eTaI times protested against such scene and the demonstrations which accompanied 1t.
 Senator Hammer, the object of the hisses, and Senator Spragins, the only other Senator who voted against the bill. also entered protests.
 No protest was more earnest than that of Senator Horton of Greene Ooun- ty, who declared that he had been mis- represented and an agent of the prohi- bitionists had been sent out against him in his own District.
 Tt has been well known that l am for constitutional prohlbition' said Senator Horton yet efforts have been made to misrepresent and injhre me. I have been for constitutional ques- tion to get the demagogue out of poli- ties. I warn you that the demagogue and the hypocrite are abroad in the