The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-28
BIRMINGHAM
 BILLS ARE UP Magic City Delegations ]. at Capitol. INTEREST IN LEGISLATION Mayor Ward and Captain 0'Brien
 Have Lively Passage. Tilt occars During Committee Hear ing of Police Commission Meas
 ure--Lane is Slated for
 Circuit Judge.
 


 It was Birmingham's day at the Capitol yesterday. The halls and cor riders were filled with lawyers and business men of Birmingham who came to the Capitol in the interest of legfs- lation affecting Birmingham.
 The County of Jefferson has had @SIe sra thsn ang half pH'a doaen s counties n the State. Mnch of the Birmingham legislation has, for one reason or anota- CT, been delayed. so that It came up before the Legislature in the closing
 Three bills drew the large large Bir- mingham delegation to the city yester- day. First in importance was the Dill increasing the number of Birmingham judges by three. A large delegation from the Birmingham Bar is in the city to have the Legislature carry into effect the recommendation of the Bar A Asso- SO, bill, which is to extend and enlarge the boundries of Birmingham, was also matter which called to the CapitoI number of the leading business men Of the city. The Birmingham Police Com mission bill was the third measure, m which the Birmingham visitors were interested. in the Birmingham judicial situation yesterday It was announced that the bill to create the additional circuit judge and make him elective by the
  elective feature. 1t was announced that this provision would be eliminated from the bill in the Senate, and that the judge would be made appointive
 Lane slated for Judge.
 For this place, ex-Mayor 4. o. Lane has no opposition. His name will he presented to the Governor with the en- dorsement of the birmingham Bar As sociatfon, and the endorsement of the Jefferson County delegation in the Leg isIature.
 city judges has already passed both Houses. It is thought a joint session of the two Houses will be held today, and the two places filled by the elec- ton called for in the bill The Bar As places, Hon. c. C. Nesmith and Ex-Jus- tice H. A. Sharpe. Hon. A. c. Howze and Hon. w. c. Garrett are also being urged for the places by their friends.
 The Municipal Committee of the Sem ate yesterday had an interesting ses- sion on the %Greater Birmingham bill, and while it was in session. one side of the Senate Chamber was fill ed with Birmingham visitors The com- mittee was addressed by E. J. Smyer and Felix C. Blackburn. Neither was opposed to the measure in general, but Mr. Blackburn opposed certain features of the bill. The committee took no &C., tion. It will hold meeting today, at which action on the bill will be taken. The Committee on Local Legislation of tho Senate gave a favorable report on the Birmingham Police Commission bill, about which strong fight has clustered. A fight against the pill was it was unavailing. Captain O'Brien, who was lately a candidate for Mayor of Birmingham, delivered forcible turn out the present Police Commission and legislate another one in.
 Senator Teasley of Montgomery, eSHr captSn oRrie4 S ss Sat ths @ajortg was the other way. The bill provides that a new Commission shall be created to fnafge fn I or tbs tne p 3 I fba nresegt Commission. Two members are to be appointed by the Governor, and the Mayor is to serve as the third member of the Commission
 Ward and O'Brfen Have Tilt.
 The bill is general in its terms, as it applies only to cities having more than S5,000 population in counties having a population of more than 100000.
 The meeting was enlivened by lively exchange of questions between Captain O'Brien and Mayor George B. Ward, the rivals in the recent munich pal campaign in Birmingham. Cap tain O'Brien asked Mayor Ward.
 "On election day in Birmingham, did at the polls and ask him how old he was and when he said he was 56 years old, did you not tell him he was too
 
 see that he was taken off? And did you not immediately order that police- man on duty in another precinct in the
 II did not" replied Mayor Ward. with some warmth. I asked Chief Weir to have him moved from one pre- cinct to anoeher. because he had $100 bet on you, and was making himself active at the polls"
 Senator Teasley opposed the bill on the ground that the census of 1910 would show Montgomery County with sufficient population to make the Police Commission act effective in the city of Montgomery.
 The prominent citizens of Birming- ham who visited the Capitol included l George B. Ward. John W. Altman. B. M Allen, R. H. Pearson Capt. Frank s. White, Charles G. Brown. James F. Weatherly G. R. Harsh, W. L. Grubbs John l.. Raul. w. H. Kettig. J. B Babb, F. J. Smyer r. c. Blackburn Frank P O'Brien. M. " Joseph. !. Q. Smith, Giant Miller and Roses c. Smith. +i Action Is Postponed