The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-05
SENATE HOLDS SHORT SESSION Receives News of Speak
 CTS Death. ADJoURNs UNTIL WEDNESDAY President Gray Signs Number of
 Measures. Conference Committee Recommends oId soldiers Bm as Passed by Up-
 per House for Passage
 Provides for Increase.
ADJ0URNS UNTIL WEDNESDAY

The Senate. while 1t held a session two hours long yesterday morning. de- voted that time to meet the exigencies of the situation created by the death of Speaker Martin. The most of this time was devoted to the signing of bills by the President and to the pas- sage of local measures Several prop ositions came up that promised divis- ion and a discussion. and as soon as this promise was understood the propo- sitions were immediately postponed.
 The Senate was in session to receive House messages. and for the president to sign the bills which had passed both houses. This was deemed necessary in order that the enrolled and engrossed bills might not congeSt and hamper the clerical department on Wednesday, the last day of the session. Between waits for bills and House messages. the Senate passed local bills and such gen. eral bills as had no opposition.
 A few minutes after convening the formal message of the House notifying the Senate of the death of Speaker Martin, and the election .of Hon. A. H. Carmichael as his successor. was read and spread on the Journal of the Sen- ate. Later came the House resolution, which rescinded the former resolution providing for an adjournment. and de- clared that the House should hold 6 session on Wednesday. On motion of Senator Lusk, the Senate immediately concurred in this resolution.
 The conference committee which had been named to adjust the differences between the House and the Senate on the Old Soldiers Pension Bill. submit ted it's report to the Senate in which the position of the Senate was upheld. The report recommended that the bill as passed by the Senate should be adopted.
 The bill. after the adoption of the conference report provides for an increase of pensions for each class or Confederate Veterans. The lowest or the four classes will each receive $50 a year, while the highest will receive $fo0 a year. The conference report was im- mediately adopted
 A second conference report was ad- verse to the Leith amendment to the revenue bill. This amendment provided that all piano and organ companies should be put on the same basis in regard to State and county licenses as sewing machine companies. This amendment, which had been adopted by the Senate, had not been in the bill as it passed the House. The House refused. through its committed. to ac- cent the Senate amendment and the conference committee as whole rec Ofnmonoed that the senate receue hfoW the Leith amendment.
 But Senator Leith objected and showed fight. He declared that the original bill proposed to make a dis criminatioin between the two classes of business. making fish of one and flesh of another. He declared that the Senate was trying to make sewing ma chine companies pay a license of some. thing like S16,000 for doing business in Alabama, while it proposed to let piano and organ companies do their business for a tax of $1b0.
 It appeared to the Senate that there would be a fight on this proposition and so. under a general agreement, the mat ter was postponed until the Wednesday session.
 The biIl changing the law in refer ence to school trustees and members of the County Boards of Education, was called up by Senator Blackmon. sena- for Reynolds, the head of the Educa- tIonai Committee of the Senate, spoke a good word for the measure. but Sem ator wilson opposed it. The Senate. arreeing that another fight was In nrospect, on motion of Senator Black mon put the whole matter off until the
 The United Daughters of the Confed- eracv submitted letter to the Senate, "a arneaflv thanking the Senators for their generous support and provisions for the Old Soldiers Home at Mountain Creek. .A A,,, the practice of pharmacy