The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-17
Five Railroad Bills Go to Governor. NONE IS DISCUSSED
 BEFORE ITS PASSAGE
Reciprocal Demurrage the Only
 One Amended.
Charges Proposed by Conamiasien ara Adopted. but Two Amendments Proposed by Outsiders Suffer Defeat. as the Leaders are
 Suspicious.

Six of the big railroad measures of the session passed the House sester@ day. one after another. There was no debate on any but the reciprocal demurrage bill. to which number of amendments were proposed. some by friends of the measure and soma by those who are not considered a friendly.
 Five of the measures. all of whirA originated in the Senate. and thers% fore go direct to the Governor. aa soon as they can be enrolled. there having been no amendments to therA were passed entirely without debats@ Indeed. on only one of the five waa there even the semblance of an ex%l planstion.
 Upon the other four not a single person rose and sought recognitlpn from the chair for the purpose of exs pIaining. supporting, opposing. seek~ ing information. or for any other purS pose In connection with their pasA sage.
 The reciprocal demurrage bill. tha only measure to which afnendmentA were offered. had several minor changes suggested by the committees which were one and all adupted while two others that were propoaede one by Mir. Pitts of Dallas and the othA CT by AIT. Tunstall of Hale. were promptly voted down, though they seemed to be of merit
 The secret for their rejection may perhaps be found in two remarks by Mr. Long Of Butler. During the debate on the amendment proposed by Mr Tunstail he said that he feared there was "a nigger in the wcodpile in the amendment. Just before Mir. PtttH presented hls amendment, he called across the hall to Mr. Long, who is $ personal friend, that he had an amend. ment to offer
 And it is . good one. too,s hs add
 Tt may be good one. rnHpona- ed Mir L6ng. rbut II comes trnsr '
 Appenls for Use of Bnaina.
 There wers some sensational fesK turcs to the discussion Of tltesn fA9 amendments It was stated upon tIs& !. ter the Virginia law, and that 1t wa4 .declared legal" though Mfr. Selhtim< CTS name was not mentioned. as 1t stood, the members being plead with not to adopt the amendment thae would change it, notwithstanding tng committee amendments had just beem adopted.
 MT. Pitts, in reply. as it was hi<, amendment that was under dlacus< sion at tho time, appealed eiouuenti& to the members 10 use the brainA they had been endowed with, and noh to follow blindly the lead of virgin~ Ia or any other state, without stopN ping to consider the right or th4, wrong of such leadership.
 The only vote taken by roll call. ex@ cept On the passage of the measures which in each cause was nearly cN quite unanimous. was on the adep1 ton of the Tunstall amendment t@ make written applications for cara, necessary under the demurrage lnws On this question, the vote was fore ty-hve to sixteen.
 The only other measure adopted during the day was the Senate biil to pay the salaries of the judges of city courts over the state from the State treasury. instead ot by the counties.
 Rev. ]. H. Holloway pastor of tha Clayton Street Methodist Church in Montgomery. opened the session with prayer, asking for Divine blessing up- on the Governor. the members of the Legislature and others in authority The morning roll cali showed twen~ ty-slx members present.
 Leaves for Thirteen.
 Leaves of absence were granted Messrs Lacy of Walker. Cranford of Walker, Rainer of Bullock. McAtilian of Wilcox. Oliver of Chambers. FoA@ ts Fr., ON r ons of Mobile, Middleton of Chiffon Smith of Etowah, Lee Of Houston, San4 ford of Talladega and Dudley of Russ sell.
 Hon. Martin Lackey of Tallapoosa, a former Senator and former Chancel- Tor Taylor, of Marengo. were grantAd the privilege of the floor for the day. and MT. Jenkins of Baldwin.
 Chairman Long of the Committee on Commerce and Common Carriers called up the first of the railroad measures, Senate bill No. 16. establishing naxf4 mum rates on about 100 articles, class flied by the bill. Mir. Long said he would not attempt to explain the bill in detail. but merely desired to say ie was presented for the purpose Of car> rylng into effect the plank in tho Dem. ocratic platform which demanded a re- duction of the railroad freight rates to conform 10 the rates now charged In Georgia.
 Mir. Pitts of Perry asked whether the bill provided a reduction in rates from those now in force. and if so. about what amount. Mir. Long replied that he did not know exactly what dit- ference there was in the rates pros slded by the bill from those now in force, but he understood there was A reduction of about 16 per cent; the -ates were about the same as those n Georgia.
 No one else evincing a disposition o speak on the bill. Mir. Long moved Inc previous question. and the biIL which is quite lengthy. was read by Recording Clerk Swanson. The vote vas then taken and the bin passed by vote of 76 to 0. Mir. Wooh presented a. resolution which was referred to the Rules con1-f nittee. making the Senate bill td 'qualize the salaries of subordinate ofs
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