The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-30

no fillers" shall be used in any fer t1iizer sold in the State and 1t pro- vides further that the contents of a sack Of fertilizer shall be made to come up 10 the requirements of the analysis printed on the outside of the sack.
 Senator Leith explained the provis- ions Of his bill. He declared that sev- eral amendments had been offered to It by representatives of the manufac- turing interests of the State and with two exceptions the amendments had been accepted by the committee. He declared further that on leaving. the fertilizer men sad to him: Well have to shell down the corn. You've got the best bill in the Southern States"
 Senator Reese, who had made a care full study of the bill, came forward ! during the discussion with several amendments. One feature of the bill | to correct which one of his amend ments was aimed. was the antitrust and anti-agreement feature insofar as 1t would prevent the fertilizer men from granting to customers the usual | discount for cash.
 Stockholders Vote. Senator Spragins offered an amend l ment eliminating the feature which provided for the payment by the man. ufacturers each year to the State of a 1 fee of $10 for the registration of each l special brand of fertilizer. He declared 1 it would be a hardship to compel fer tilizer manufacturers year after year to register anew their brands and each time pay the license tax of $10 for 1 the registration.
 Senator Leith moved to table the | amendment. Senator Spragins said that he was connected with a fertilizer | factory in Huntsville and probably 1 could not under a strict interpreta- ton of the constitution vote on the | question. By a unanimous vote of the l Senate he was instructed to cast his vote. He voted against tabling the | amendment.
 The vote was tie, II to II. The | dent Gray.
 "The chair also is stockholder in | a fertilizer factory" said President Gray. q move that the chair be instructed | to vote," said Senator Spragins and the motion was unanimously adopted. "The chair votes aye" said Presi- | dent Gray and the amendment was l tabled.
 Senator Reese was discussing his general amendment to the bill when l the hour of the morning adjournment struck.
 The morning session began at 10 | o'clock when President Gray called the Senate together. The opening prayer was offered by Rev. J. Malone of Henry county, a member Of the House.
 Petition from Birmingham. | The petition signed by eighty-one Birmingham physicians praying for the Senate to pass the greater Birmingham bill was presented to the Senate. The | petition declared that the sanitary welfare of the city depended upon the annexation of the outlying municipali- ties. A typhoid epidemic now prevail ing, 1t was stated, was an example of l what would continue to characterize l conditions until a general sanitary sys- l tenn was established
 The joint resolution petitioning con- gress to open the Cahaba river for navigation was unanimously adopted. A communication from Secretary Pepperman of the Alabama Press As sociation was read and filed. The com municaton contained a copy of the resolutions passed by the Alabama Press Association endorsing the bills amending the present libel laws of Alabama, which were introduced in the House by Representatives Rushton and Haley.
 | Senator Lowe moved to take from the adverse calendar his Morgan coun- | ty cour bill. It was local measure and the senators lent an attentive ear to the arguments of the Morgan coun- ty senator. They then voted to put his bill on the regular calendar.
 Pay Days are Re-established. | A brief but interesting discussion centered around the consideration of the bill of Senator Wilson to prevent the running of pay trains and the hay ing of pay days on Sunday. The bill had already been passed and it came up on a motion to reconsider. As the bill originally passed, the words "on Sunday" were left out of the caption. The effect of the measure therefore would have been to have forbidden any sort of pay on any day in Alaba- | ma, which everybody agreed would have been a horrible state of affairs. To re-establish pay days, to remove that terrible menace put upon them the vote by which the Dill was ordered at it's third read was re-considered | The motion was made by Senator Spragns. He proposed the amendment which corrected the defect in the bill and was then ready for the measure to pass again.
 But Senator Spragins had another amendment to offer. His amendment cut out of the bill all allusions to the
 
 bill was allowed to forbid pay days being had on Sunday. but under it the pay train was allowed to move from place to place.
 Senator Spragins spoke briefly in support of his amendment He declar- ed that it would be a hardship both on a railroad company and on the em- ployes of the company to tie train , wherever it happened to be on Satur-
 day night at midnight For one thing , it would place the pay train in dan |; ger of being robbed and it would hand , icap the men who worked for road
 in receiving their money.
 | Senator Wilson stood out against the amendment The evil of pay trains run ming On Sunday had steadily increased
 until the time was not far distant , when the roads would run them on no , other day. Men were called away
 from church and SunGay school because
 of the coming of the pay train. It | was the duty of the Senate to carry
 into effect the great moral sentiment , of the State and to heed the wish of , the people that there should be es- I tablished in Alabama Christian Sab [ bath
 The amendment was adopted, how
 ever, and then the bill was passed The bill of Senator McWhorter's
 amending certain sections of the
 state health laws was called up by :, him after considerable trouble. . The bill amends ,ertain sections of , present public health laws of Alaba- , ma. It is heartily endorsed by the
 State Medical Society and it was in