The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-03
HOUSE ADOPTS COTTON MILL
 AMENDMENT OF THE GOVERNOR

' that no means exist for it's enforce ment, and that if the Governors z amendments were concurred in, the State would next week have an inspec- tor apointed, whose duty 1t would be 10 visit the cotton mills of the State
 ana see to it that the child labor law | was not violated. Then, when the
 Legislature came together again, 1t
 could pass better child labor law, if It | saw fit.
 I He had feared, he confessed, that such an amendment would operate dis l advantageously to the child labor law. I when 1t was first received from the Senate. The amendment proposed by I the Governor was much more exactly i drawn, however, and he took pleasure in supporting 1t.
 i Means 41No Inspection at AL" 1 MT. Pitts of Perry, author of the child labor bill, who had been stand- ing doggedly in his place, awaiting re- I cognition from the chair since the Gov ernor's message was first read, declar- ! ed that if this provision for Inspection were put in this bill, it would be fare- we'll to any child labor law in Ala bama.
 ITO throw 1t in with Che jails and l aimshouses," he declared. will simply mean no inspection at all." He pleaded with the members of the House that 1t was only few weeks at the most until the Legislature could take up the subject of child labor, and pass an efficient bill on the subject He urged the members not to put such an amendment Into the jail inspection bill, for, he said. the jail inspector will have his time full ytaken up. If he does his duty, and if you put this amendment in this bill, right there Is the death knell of the child labor law in Ala bama.
 He closed by moving to non-concur in the Governors amendments. motion which was declared out off order by the Speaker when the time came to vote, as. he pointed out, the Constitu- tion provided that upon the receipt of such message from the Governor, the question should be upon the adc%tion of the amendments proposed by the Governor
 Mir. Ballard of Autauga was a strong supporteN of the plan of making the jail inspector also inspector of child labor conditions in the cotton mills, as proposed by the Governor. Ee had sevral reasons for doing so. one of which was that course was the more expeditions.
 Mir. Hoffman of Mobile said he believ- ed tho gentleman from Perry was, be- yond all question, sincere In his desire 10 secure le&iSfdtfOl AHdl1SL the TIlliQ labor evil: he doubted sincerely if the amendment proposed would have the effect which was hoped for. He under stood the present ineficient child labor law had not been adopted of the free will of the last Legislature, but was a compromise of the mill men and man. ufacturers.
 Beware of Compromise.
 "If this is another compromise, if fk f., Jao4.r fn f1y, hA Infn of the bill proposed by the gentleman from Perry-and. mind you, I am not willing to say am for his bill, for I don't know all that is in it-but if we have another of those compromise measures ou hand. I say to you. from whatever course 1t comes. we should go a little slow. and be careful what we are doing"
 "Mr Speaker" interposed Mir. Sam pie of Morgan. catching the eye os the chair. q cannot see any reason TOT any further discussion of this question. This amendment comes from the Gov ernor, and I therefore move the previ- ous question"
 After the sally of laughter that this motion caused had died away. the pre- vious question was put and ordered, the members of the House seeming to agree with the member from Morgan that debate was unnecessary on an amendment from the source fin question. and the vote being taken, 1t was found that the Governors amendment had prevailed by a vote of 62 to 12.
 When the Governors amendment reached the Senate 1t was adopted with out discussion.
 Two Senate bills were adopted early in the day designed to put further crimps in the liquor traffic. There was strong opposition on the floor to both measures, but they passed by over whelming majorities. The Moody dis pensary bill. providing for local option by counties on the question of estab- fishing dispensaries in prohibition counties. was passed by vote of 57 to Is, while the Lusk bill to prevent the abetting or procuring or eounseling of unlawful sales of liquor was passed by a vote of n to 3.
 Just before adjournment at the af- ternoon session the Lusk bill. redis- tricting the State into Judicial circuits, was passed.
 Refuses to Investigate Bonds.
 When Speaker Carmichael called the House to order yesterday morning ne presented Rev. Brooks Lawre l.H. ST. perintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, who delivered the opening vocation. Seventy-three members responded to their names on roll call. As usual, the journal was approved without reading.
 An indefinite leave of absence was granted Mir. Crum of Lowndes Leaves for the day were granted Messrs. Rainer of Bullock and Powell of Covington.
 On motion of Mir. Hoffman of Mobile the privileges of the floor were granted to Mayor Pat J. Lyons oS Mobile and to Major J K. Glennon of that city, for the day; on motion of Mr. Steagall of Dale, to w. D. Mcleod of that county; on motion of MT. Lyons of Mo- bile, to E. W. Faith and John Croft, members of the City Council of Mobile, and on motion of MT. Long of Butler to Hon. H. r. Pilley, a former menl- Der of the House.
 The Rules Committee presented resolution, based upon a memorial 70 the Legislature. asking for such action, providing that the Code Commission should investigate the validity of bonds issued in 1870 for the Montgomery and Eufaula Railroad.
 Mir. Long of Butler opposed su1h action as tending to acknowledge the liability of the State for these old bonds. and after some iiioquy between MT. Long and Chairman John of the Judiciary Committee, the resolution was defeated on a rising vote of 22 to 31.
 Inquire Into Swamp Lands.
 The Rules Committee presented an- other resoution providing for an inves- tigation by the Code Commission, with instructions to report to the Legisla- ture after the recess, into the mRWer of tho swamp and overfowed lands orig