The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-03

 ton by street railways. The bill makes the issuance of such transportation mis- demeanor and provides fines of from Sl00 to 5000. Mr Weaver said he could not support the bill without amendment as 1t cut out police. firemen, employees, etc.
 MT. Pitts offered to amend so as to eX- clude police officers on duty, fremen employees and their families, attorneys and their families, sanitary officers and mail carriers.
 Mr. Bulger offered to amend by exempt ing newspaper men, but the amendment tabled The Pitts amendment was then adopted and the bill passed. MT. Goodwin of Montgomery moved that the vote which the bill was passed be recon sdered and asked that the motion go over until tomorrow for consideration. The effect of this motion would he to Kill the bill. as it could not reach the senate in time for passage An attempt was made to suspend the rules to consider the motion to reconsider. but no quorum vot- ed and the speaker declared the rules lost. There was a wrangle over the parliament ary status, a call of the house being or dered to ascertain if a quorum was pres ent. A quorum responded and the mo- ton to suspend the rules was renewed and adopted. The motion to reconsider was then tabled.
 More Pay for Clerk.
 The bill of MT. Smith of Elmore to in crease the salary of the assistant clerk in the office of the commissioner of agricul- ture from s1200 to $500 was called. MT. Smith said all the other clerks had been raised and this one should be. Smith of Franklin opposed the bill. MT. Tunstall favored it, It was passed.
 The Loveady bill prohibiting the sale of "hop jack" and other beer substitutes in prohibition territory was passed.
 MT Smith of Franklin called his bill providing for the examination of appli- cants for second grade teachers certifi- eates on their knowledge of the school laws of the state and provide for the publication and distribution of the new school laws among the trustees and public school teachers of the state, and it was passed
 The Ragsdale bill to enable the wives of disabled Confederate soldiers to become inmates of the soldiers homes with their husbands was passed
 Pure Food Lost.
 At the afternoon session of the house the Mauer pure food bill was taken up. and the clerk continued the third reading of the bill, which was in progress yester- day afternoon when the house adjourned. The bill was defeated by a vote of 8 to 26. Mr Cannon called the Merritt senate bill to amend the local option law so as to permit an election upon the question of wet or dry" where dspensaries are already established within less time than two years Under the original law an election can not be held within two years where a dispensary now exists.
 MT. McMillan of Wilcox explained the provisions of the bill and urged its pas. sage. It developed that MT. MeMillan seeks to rid the town of Camden of a MT. Foster of Tuscaloosa favored the passage of the bill saying that 1t would merely have the effect of putting the bill back to where the house passed 1t.
 Mir Weaver of Blount said the local option act had been passed in good faith and it should not now be disarranged. It would in some instance interfere with contracts made with view of obtaining funds from the dlspensaries. M-. Pitts of Perry also opposed the bill.
 MT Steagall of Dale supported the measure, saying that 1t could not effect his home town, as Ozark has voluntarily closed it's dispensary, but people in other sections undergoing a change of heart should have a right to vote on the ques- tion.
 MT. Afford of Geneva said that in his home town of Hartford the people wanted to erect school buildings pua Lad TO money. His bank had toned the money, with the expectation and pledge that 1t would be paid back out of the proceeds derived from the dispensary. and he sub mitted that 1t would be unfair to those people to disturb the arrangement.
 MT. Lacey of Walker opposed the bill, and Messrs. Fuller of Bibb and Rice of favored it. The bill passed 8 to 2S.
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