The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-19

Afford. Armstrong; Arlington. Baitzeil. Brown, Burney, Cooper. Doyle of Ma rengo, Elr0d. Jenkins, Jones. Kirby Lacy of Walker. Lancaster. Lee of Barbour. Lee of Etowah. Lee af Hous- ton Lindsey. Long of Butler. Lhng of Pratt. Rushton. Smith of Eimcre, Smith of Etowah. Smith of Lee, Thompson, White of Perry--3o
 Negotinble Instrument Bill Passed.
 4 number of important measures were passed during the day, but none of them. was of great conseduence. Among them was the negotiable in- law In Alabama conform to that in other States. II is most comprehensive in forms amounting Almost to Code by itself Npon the subject of all kinds of negotiable instruments, One fea- tnre of the bill is that it makes no provision whatever for the customary three days of grace in the payment of note, which has heretofore been cus- tomary, but which has been eliminated from the statutes of a number of States.
 Another btil vassad is that prohibit- ing the display If nude pictures. The two Greater Birmingham" bills, as they are called. permitting cities. un- AeI certain regulations. to annex ter-
 
 authorizing the merging ct cities and towns lying contiguous to each other. went through without opposition, as did also three general city hills, those permitting cities to acquire and oper- ate water works, providing that no separate registration shall. he required for city elections, and fixing the max imum salaries of mayors at $3,s0o per year. The omnibus salary bill also was passed. as~
 It had been expected the measures making appropriations for the various educational institutions of the State would come up yesterday. but Mir. Tunstall, of Hale, made strenuous ob- jectiop ito their consideration before the common schools appropriation bill had been finally disuosed of. and they went over until Wednesday,. As the common schools bill was passed by both houses during the afternoon, there now seems nothing in the way of final ac. tion on the other educational bills when they come up.
 1t was agreed by both houses. upon joint resolution originating in the House, to hold no sessions either to. day or Friday. giving the committees time to work. This action is the pres cursor, 1t was stated, of a movement to take the legislative recess that has been so long looked for the latter part of next week.
 1 Azr, Ftsts sn Persanal Privtlege.
 Rev. w. !. Price. of Girard, Repre- sentative from Russell county, invoked tue divine blessing ot the. opentng of the House The role call. which fol- lowed showed sixty-tw members in their seats The journal of Sa tsffdas ,ae cording to the usual custom, was ap-
 Jroved without reading. on recom- mendation of the committee on Re- vision of the Journal. sa
 MT. Pitts, of Perry, rose to ques- tlon of personal privilege and said he had been informed The Advertiser had reported him as voting against one of the rail. cad bills Saturday. He did not know which one. He had vot- ed for each one of the bills. he said, and had always supported the bills of the administration whenever they had come up. It was MT Pitts. Of Dal- las, and not Mr. Pitts. of Perry. who voted against two of the railroad bills, and proposed an amendment to the reciprocal demurrage bill.
 Leavea< of absence were granted some half doEen members of the House who failed to return from their, week. cad vtsit to their, homes in time to On motion of MT. Buiger, of Talla. poosa- the privilege of the floor was extended for the day to pr, John [ ", Ahercfembie. president of the State University. and to Dr. Charles C. Thach, president of the Alabama on Blotion of Mir John of Jefferson, to pr. J. AIeck Moore. president of the Girls Industrial School. rss S7l Dr. Erwin Craighead, editor of the Mobile Register. was likewise grant ed the privilege or the floor for the. day.
 On motion of Mir. Gunter. of Mont gomery, the immigration bill, set for yesterday morning. was, postponed until this morning after the reports of the Standing Committees. sAs5e The negotiable instrument bill, naak- king the law in Alabama conform to that In force in other states with regard to the various kinds aes tne- gotiable instruments. which tWasc the first special order for ,thet tday5s was called up by Mr John. of sleffersenb' read for. the third time. and proyed by E a vote of sixts~four to nesssscarHi- chaei. of Colbert. voting neseos City Water Measure Appreved.
 House Bill No. 543, the :7smeasure authorizing cities to erect or acquire water works. and to operate, them, was next taken up. The commtttee sub- stituter was read at length and adopt ed. after which it was passed without debate by vote of sixty-six to mo- thing ,ry a
 Mr. John. of Jefferson, presented a joint resolution providing or,,adjourn-s ment from yesterday until Wednesday,, and from Thursday until Saturday, holding no session today or Friday. in order that the commission ,might meet and also because of Friday be. ing Washington's birthday.
 Both Mir. John and Mir. BulgeP, of Tallapoosa. the latter being one of the House members of the joint com mittee on Recess. expressed the belief that such adjournments for committee work would effect a saving of time, and that the recess might be reached, if the committees caught up with their work on those days, byi the mid 1 de or latter part of next week.
 The resolution was adopted with out opposition.
 Mir. Foster. of Tuscaloosa. intro- duced a bill providing for a commit ] tee to sit during the recess of the Iegislature to prepare general municipal bil A number of other new | measures were presented
 Speaker Martin announced the ap- pointment of John Greene as page, vice | Hugh Gale. resigned, pursuant to an ] arrangement made in advance for each | of them to serve half the session.
 The general revenue bills were re- ported by the Committee on Ways and ! Means. and Chairman woolf presented l a resolution. which was referred to the 1 Rules Committed. to make them spe- I ciaI orders for Thursday. after the re- ports of standing Committees.
 On request of Chairman Lyons. of the | Appropriations Committee, House Bill |