The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-02
HOUSE PASSES MEASURE TO /
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 MT. Carmichael of = 5oert, of the Rules Committee. took<she floor in sup port of adjournment declaring notn- ing would be accomplished If the House remained in session, as there never had been anything done in the Legislature on Saturday, and he therefore thought 1t advisable to ad- journ and not waste a legislative day.
 Mir. sherrod supported the idea of meeting today, saying the actions of past sessions should have nothing to do with this Legislature.
 Mir. Pitts of Dallas deemed it advis- able to adjourn until Monday. If by any means the committee could be forced to meet.
 The roll call upon the. motion by Mir. Sherrod to reconsider the ad- journment resolution. resulted in it's defeat by a vote of twenty-six to six ty-eight. Those voting against ad- journment until Monday were Mir. Speaker and Messrs. Armstrong. Ave- ry. Baltxeil. Brown. Cannon. Coleman of Marshall, Edwards, Hughston John son. Jones. Killen. King. Lacy of Dai- las, Lee of Etowah, Lee of Houston, Long of Morgan. McMillan. Rowe, Sample. Sanders, Sherrod, Smith of of Etowah. Smith of Lee and Weaver.
 At the conclusion of the roll call, Mir. Pitts of Dallas presented reso- functory manner. declarig 1t was the sense of the House all committees should meet today. That closed the incident until the hour for adjourn ment was reached, when two calls for committee meetings, both for last evening, were read
 House Amends Bill.
 N< 2es. the general appropriation bill. was returned by the Governor, in accord ance with the request of the House; the signatures of the Speaker and the President of the Senate were, erased: and the House refused to concur in the Senate amendmnts to the bill. and the upper body, according to a mes- sage received. amended the measure In accordance with the desires of the Gov ernor as to some appropriations and in accordance with the salaries fixed by law in the matter of other changes. The Senate amendments were there upon concurred In by the House.
 House Bill No. 423, by Mir. Arnold. of Calhoun, which was special order for the morning session. was taken up and. after the adoption of several amendments and a long running dis- cussion of the measure, was adopted. The bill provided that $50.00o should be appropriated annually by the State to aid rural school districts to erect and repair public school buildings. Not over $1.000 was to be spent in any one county.
 An amendment proposed by Mfr. Lee. of Etowah county. to make the total possible appropriation 67.000, instead of $5o,000. so as to provide $1,O00 for each of the sixty-seven counties. if it should be required and claimed. was adopted. S
 Mir Carmichael. of Colbert county. presented an amendment that provoked considerable discussion. He proposed to require that every school house erected by the assistance of the State should have provided for it tract of not less than two acres. The amend ment was finally adopted by vote of 46 to 3S.
 The bill was passed without oratory at the close of the consideration of this amendment, without opposition.
 Recess was then taken, at 1:15 o'clock, until 8 o'clock in the aftcr- noon.
 Pass Eleven Local Measures.
 At the afternoon session, after a few new bills of minor consequence had been introduced under suspension of the rules. Mir Lee, of Houston, pre- scented a resolution to make House Bill No. IS. to fix the time of holding court in the Twelfth Judicial Circuit, special order for Tuesday morning. It was referred to the Committee on Rules
 The same course was followed with resolution by Mir. Guntar. of Mont gomery, to make House Bill No. IF, special order for Tuesday. following the disposal of House Bill No. IS.
 MT. Tunstali, of Hale. secured unan- imous consent for the consideration of House Bill No. 462. a general blll. be- fore the local legislation was taken up. The measure authorizes the com promise of certain claims by guardians of minors The bill was passed. ( The call of the calendar for local bills on final passage was then taken up at the point where it was broken off Thursday evening. During the af- ternoon, eleven local measures were adopted by the House. none being de- feated.
 Mir woolf, of Marengo. presided dur ing the consideration of many of the local bills, but Speaker Martin resumed the chair before the House, at 5:05 o'clock, adjourned until Monday.