The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-10
Thirteen Days Meeting Opened With
 Rush. NEW BILLS MOUNT UP
 INTO THE HUNDREDS Caucus on Senatorial Succession to Be Held Tonight 
 Senate. Amends And Emasculates John Anti-Lobby Bin TiIi It |. Hardly More Than Name--Two Biiis To Repeal Money Lend
 ing Tax.

:. il f The Legislature of Alabam. after a recess of four months. and with only thirteen days. secured to 1t by the Con- stitution, jumped into the midst of its work, without noticing the heat Of hottest day of ;he summer. It picked up it's work right where 1t left off last March and 1t whirled in at it's task as though thirteen days would be all the, time 1t would need.
 The first day of the hot weather session was notable by the flood of new bills that flowed in both Houses. In the Senate no less than IF new bills were introduced, which was nearly a third of the total number of bills introduced in the thir.y-seven days session of last winter. More bills were introduced yesterday than on any day of the winter session. .
 About 200 Bills In House.
 It's worth notice, too, that in many of the new bills had the words, 're- peaf and amend" written in the title, which indicates that the Legislature is going to undo, in the summer some of the things 1t did in the winter.
 In the main. however. the big batch of bills was made Ip of local measures. 4 great majority of the proposed measures were bills in which the law makers were only. trying to legislate for their own counties. The Democratic caucus was not held last night as it was once thought ik would be. It was found more con- venient to have the caucus tonight. The Senators and Representatives will meet tonight. in the Hall of the House of Representatives and award Captain John H. Bankhead the Democratic .ss, k. Az skatts San2ee left warrant by the death of John Tyler Morgan. The caucus will only be a ratification meeting "a meeting to put the award where the primary of last August put 1t.
 Formal Election Next Week.
 The formal election by the Legisla- ture will not take place until Tuseday of next week. The Code provides that Senatorial vacancies shall be filled by Legislative election held on the second Tuesday after the converting of the Legislature. While this ap- plies to regular vacancies and regular elections, 1t has been deemed best to follow the letter of the Code in filling the present extraordinary or unusual vacancy.
 An effort was made yesterday to have both Houses adopt a definite pro- gram in the arrangement of the thir- teen working days, but the final action
 
 for ward than Friday Under the ad- resolution the Legislature when it ad- Journed yesterday adjourned to meet Friday morning. This action gives the committees two days in which to accomplish the mass of work put uporl them by the flood of bills of the open ing day.
 The original resolution containing the full program was presented by Sen ator John A. Lusk. It apportioned out the thirteen legislative days among the I.1a committee days until the last day Senate adopted this resolution as pro- posed by Senator Lusk but the House eliminated all the provisions except The hrst, providing for the two days recess to Friday for committee work
 Taftered and Torn. The John anti-lobbying bill was so badly disfigured in the Senate yester- day that its own author wouldn't know it, It was hammered at by the sena- tors until it's own friends said when it was finally permitted to pass that 1t was nothing but name. The bill as it finally passed the Senate con tained no provision except that which made The corrupt solicitation of members" felony and punishable un- der the law.
 As Senator Gardner. friend of the bill, said:
 They cut it up so that it means nothing We had law enough before to punish corrupt solicitation
 The emasculation of the bill was fought by the more prominent of the administration leaders of the Senate. :. Its disfigurement and disgrace was re- garded as a blow at administration pol icies. The Governor had set consider able store by @ stringent antt-lobby bill.
 The Democratic convention which met last September and which was dominated by Governor Conner demand ed an insistent anti-lobby bill. AS soon as the Legislature met last win ter Representative sam Will John drew up a bill which was stringent enough to suit the Governor or anybody else.
 One of its mildest provisions was that there would be a book of regis tration and anybody who came to Montgomery to talk to any member of the Legislature had to register, tell what bill he was interested in and how much he got for coming. There were a number of other stringent provisions to the bill.
 The bill was greatly toned down in being rewritten in committee in the House but it still did not suit the more conservative and thoughtful members. The House passed 1t after it had been greatly modified.
 Senators Laid For It.
 It went over to the Senate and was on the calendar as a special order when the Legislature adjourned last spring. As a special order 1t came up yesterday afternoon and the Senate didn't do thing to 1t. There were some senators who had been sharpen ing their knives for 1t and the, way they carved 1t made the friends of the bill shudder.
 In vain Senator Lusk talked of the s,debauching of the lawmakers of Ala hama" In vain he quoted the plat form of the September convention, which he declared was made up of aen who had come fresh from the