The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-25
HOUSE PASSES GAME MEASURE Creates Office of State.
 Commissioner. WARDEN SYSTEM IS ADOPTED Bill Passes Lower Body by Vote
 of S7 tob.
 Representatives UnIoose oratory over auestion--Introduction of Eigh-
 <teen Proposed Laws Takes
 Up Most of Session.

| Practically the only thing accomplish ed by the three hour session of the House yesterday was the passage. by vote of eighty-seven to six, of the bill flor the preservation of the game and
 fish of the State. and the creation Of
 the office of State Game and Fish Com missioner. The companion bill. for the preservation and protection of nsh, l was considered at some length, but dtu not reach the voting stage.
 | The measure that passed the House provides the warden system of hand- Hing the game and fish problem, which | has proven successful in other States. Indeed. the bill was drawn after tn" laws of som eof the other States. l A gerat deal of oratory was unloosed | in consideration of the bill. but none or | it was of the pyrotechnic sort. One or two of the speakers, in their f1ightiest l hights, suggested the appeals that nave been made on the other measures. al though no direct pleas were mace TOT the blue-eved birds and the bare-footcd rabbits, nor for the straisht-hai deer
 and the dear little fish that might catch cold. | pr. Charles A. stakely, of the First Baptist Church of Montgomery, made l the opening prayer at yesterdays House session. The roll call which
 followed showed lo1 members present:
 As usual, the journal was approved without reading,
 | On accommodation of the Rules Committee Mir. Hoffman's resolution to
 make House Bill No. 30, the Juvenile court bill a special order for Monday. was passed.
 | To Examine Salaries.
 l The Rules Committee favorabiy re- ported the resolution to provide joint committee to investigate the salaries of | the various executive officers and clerks, to see if they were adequate and | In keeping with the cost of living. The
 resolution was thereupon passed. 1 The consideration of the fish and game law. House Bill No. III. which was interrupted in the midst of a roll l call Wednesday afternoon, was resdm. ed as unfinished business. Desultory discussion of various amendments, amendments to amendments, motions to 1 indefinitely postpone and other parlla- mentary questions has proceeded TOT
 nearly an hour. when Mrs John, or Jet' I ferson, demanded the previous question on all peudinR amendments, and on the
 bill. An amendment by MT. Tunstall of 1 Hale. with an amendment by Mir. Full | Ter of Bibb, accepted by MT. Tunstaii' provided that no prosecutions Tor nunt- ling on the premises of another without
 
 be instituted. except~by the owner Of the land. or by his consent. The amend menf, however, was lost on roll call by Ia vote of twenty-nine to sixty-six
 The bill was thereupon read the l third time in full and was passed py l aNyote of ST toA6 The noes were cast by Cannon. Edwards, Elrod. Mitchell, Rainer and Rattray. motion to re- l consider was at once tabled. l House Bill No. 10, the companion | bill to the Fish and Game Commission | bill, which is designed for the protec- l ton for the fish of the State, was then | taken. An effort to have consideration l of the measure postponed until Satur- day, that 1t -might be printed, failed. 1 A proposed amendm mt by Mir. Bulger, l of Tallapoosa. to permit sawdust to be | dumped in streams, from water saw mills was defeated. Another amend ment by MT. Jenkins, of Baldwin. I1ak- 1 ing the bill unapplicable to ebb and l flow waters near the coast, was pro- l posed but the House postponed further l consideration until this morning be- 1 fore a vote was reached.
 Favorable reports were received from ! committee on ten or a dozen measures, and the call of counties for the intro- l duetion of bills was taken up, with | the result that only eighteen bills, the !
 single day, were presented. Mir. John, of Jefferson, introduced a
 bill to amend the< aw fixing the lia- l bility of masters and employees. The l present law Is amended in a number 1 of particulars, the tendency being to | afford greater protection to laboring 1 men.
 ] Mir. Hoffman. of Mobile. presented 1 the Greater Mobile bill. by which 1t is | pronoaed t0 take in enough of the alI = 1 burbs of the Gulf City to raise the 1 population of the city tofperhaps S0000 l by the time the 19lOAcensus is taken. 1 WJII Adjourn To Monday. | The House concurred in the Senate
 joint resolution for adjournment from | Friday to Monday, to permit the day to | be devoted to committee meetings. l On motion of MT. Lyons, of Mobile, ! Chairman of the Appropriations Com