The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-23
MEASURE FOR COMPLETION
 OF CAPITOL PASSES HOUSE

bert. the Senate resolution was refer
 red to the Committee on Rules.
 The House resolution by John. w.ss l later concurred In by the Senate, ac.
 corsllng 10 message received from ths upper house. Mir. John also presented a resolu- l ton asking the Governor to build q
 room for tine Speaker and for the iiss of the Committee on Rules. in the north
 end of the hall, on the second floor oi | the new south wing of the Capitol. i'm 1 mediately behind the Speakers desk l The resolution was adopted.
 Another, resolution, also by Mir. John
 was referred to the Committee or l Rules. It authorizes the engrosslne | and enrolling of bills by typewriter
 and calls upon the Secretary 6f State | to furnish the Hous. with four type | writers.
 On motion of Mir. Arnold of Calhoun House Bill No. 63. exenpting the home | steads of Confederate Veterans and
 their widows from taxation was mad. | K special continuing paramount orde; for Friday, Immediately after the read- Ing of tho journal.
 spccinl Orders Through Committee.
 The Rules Committee reported pro-
 posed pew rule. with favorable recom-
 mendatioii.. providing that no bill | should be made a special order until
 
 been acted upon by the Committee or Rules The rule was adopted.
 Mir. Pitts ot Perry presented res ! olution for the appointment of Com mittee cf i've from the House and a like committee from the Senate, to vis- | it the Soldiers Home at Mountain Creek and report to the two bodies,
 with such recommendations as they might deem proper. Referred to the Committee on Rules. A leave of absence was granted MT Lee of Etowah until Wednesday. and leaves for the day to Messrs. Kerby of
 Madison and Sherrod of Lawrence. House Bill No. 2s. by John. the spe- cial order for the morning. came up on the favorable report. with an amend-
 ment, of the Judiciary Comittee Fix Salaries at s5,O0u. The bill increases tn salaries of the | Justices of the Supreme Court from | $500 per annum. the present figure. | to. s5,400, and the amendment propos-
 ed by the committee reduces the amount proposed to be allowed to s?.- 900. The amendment of the commit tee was adopted. on roll call, by vote l of seventy-seven to four.
 The measure was briefly explained l by Mir. John, the author of the bill. | and the Chairman of the Judiciary 1 Committed, which recommended 1t. The movement for, the increase, he said. originated with the mem0ers of the bar
 and not the Justices themselves. The question of the tconstitutionality of the bill. which applies to the. pres l ent justices. was raised by Mir. Rush 1 ton of Crenshaw, but MT. John replied l that the section of the constitution pro- 1 hibiting the raising of salaries of of l fees of profit" during their terms did | not apply to judicial offices, and the 1 proposed bill, he thought, was consti- 1 tutional.
 l Mir. Rushton favored increased sala- I ries for the Supreme Court judges, he l said. but did not think it lawful to raise their salaries during the term 1 of the present incumbents.
 Decided im Pennsylvania. "The Iaborer Is worthy of his hire" ] was the text of a speech by Mir Pitts l of Dallas, supporting the proposed 1 increase He maintained that the law l would be held constitutional. referring 1 to a decision in similar case by the | Pennsylvania Supreme Court. As he was suffering from throat trouble OK tracts from the Pennsylvania decision | were read by Mr. Foster of Tuscaloosa, who made a legal argument upholding 6 1 the biil's constitutionaiity.
 Tho previous question being ordered, Mr. John closed the argument briefly. after which the vote was taken, the bill passing by a vote of 76 to IS. The
 nays were east, by ,Aitmon, Armstrong, Cannon, Coleman of Marshall, Elrod, Henley. HughstoH. Johnson, Killen. Lee of, Barbour, Malone, Mitchell, Moore, Rushton, Smith of Etowah, Turner, | yann and White of Lamar. l.. Capitol BiI1 Passes. The Capitol building bill which had been made a special order to be taken up after the disposal of the Supreme Court measure. was taken up at the
 request of the author Representative Tyler Goodwin of Montgomery, and
 passed by a decisive vote. After be-
 ing read for the third time was ex- plained by MT. Goodwin.
 The proposed north wing. Mir. Good wyn said, which was to be used as an executive wing, was expected to cost | about $75,000, the Supreme Court wing, facing to the rear, about $90,o00. and a l Governors Home about $50,000l There 1 would remain about $35.000, at these l tiguress for the improvement of the in- ! terlor of the Capitol s, The bill proposed an appropriation of $250,o00, of which $100,000 was to be used the first year and $50,O00 thereafter for three succeeding years. The expending of the money was to be left to the present Capitol Com mission, consisting of the Governor, Auditor, Treasurer. Secretary of State 1 and Attorney General. with the Direc- tor of the Department of Archives and History as Secretar~.
 The speech of Mr, Goodwin was ln- terrupted by the taking of vote for
 the two United States senators at the noon hour. but the remarks of the Montgomery member were resumed af- ter the voting had been concluded, Mr. Goodwyn pleading with the legislators for the harmonious completion of the Capitol building and for the improve ment of the interior. Others Favor Measure. He was followed by MT. Jenkins of
 Baldwin. who urged that the north wing be erected to complete the Cap
 was well able to do, so as to make a harmonious whole.
 Mir. Kornegay of Dallas, had intend | ed he said. to offer an amendment pro- viidng a further appropriation for a Governors Mansion, but as the bill al- ready provided for this. he had noth- l ing further to suggest. and was strong | ly in favor of the measure.
 Three Oppose Action.
 MT. Pitts of Perry, opposed the pas
 sage of the bill this time, urging | that the school children. the old sol- l dIers and the State institutions should | first have attention. What money was
 left might then be appropriated for the | Capitol and similar purposes. MT. Smith of Lamar. also opposed the | bill. saying that although a member