The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-07

errors, It was passed under suspen- sion of the rules. The bill has been returned from the Governors oflce once before since it was passed.
 Mir. King of Jefferson presented a resolution which was referred to the Committee on Rules, to have three ses- sions daily, from 10 to o'clock, from 3 to o'clock. and from to 10 o'clock. with nothing but general bills to be considered at the night session.
 Mir. Carmichael of Colbert presented resolution to have House bill No. 37l for the inspection of tails and aims houses. made 6 special order for such time as the Rules Committee should decide. Mir. steagaIl of Dale presented a similar resolution to make House bill No. 1o8. amending the fer tilizer law, special order for today, immediately after the reports of stand ing committees. Both were referred to the Rules Committee.
 Eleven new measures were introduced by members under suspension of the rules.
 Isvelady BiIl en the Carpet.
 Mir. White of Perry announced the committee appointed to visit the sol- make the trip Friday. land said it was the urgent request of the local conn mittee that as many as could get away should go.
 House bin No. 1as. by Mir. Lovelady of Jefferson, the local option, bill. which was made & special order for that hour several days ago. was called up by Chairman Ballard, of the Temperance Committee.
 MT. Foster of Tuscaloosa. who oc- cupied the chair practically, all the fore noon. ruled the question would revert first to the vote on the adoption of the substitute offered by the minority of the committee. st.-l .,-.
 MT. Ballard spoke on the evils of the liquor trafflc and the need for leg islation along this line. The nations bill for whiskey, he said. was five times that for education. S.
 He favored the county unit. because 1t would make one election do. where a hundred would be required under the precinct unit.
 He reviewed carefully the provisions of the Lovelady bill, going over 1t sec tion by section.
 MT. Goodwyn. of Montgomery. replied with an argument for the minority substitute. There were. he said. but three differences in the two measures. The majority report would allow the calling of an election on the petition of twenty-five per cent of the voters, while the minority would permit twen- ty per cent to demand an election. The majority bill would permit an election every two years, while the minority would make the question remain set tied. after one election. for four years.
 The principal point of difference in the two bills. he pointed out, was in the unit. The minority bill made the city or town the unit and in the county vrntrtdoA hxr the last Democratic platform, while the majority of the committee had cre- ated a new unit, the county.
 MT. King, of Jefferson, urged the adoption of the majority report. The county was the proper unit, he con- tended, because the entire county was called upon to pay the bill for the prosecution of crime caused by the sale of whiskey at one place. Birmingham was the distributing point of whiskey for seventy five miles in every direc- tion. he said.
 MT. Fuller, of Bibb. favored the county unit, and pleaded with the mem bers for the passage of legislation looking to prohibition. He declared MT. Goodwin was for prohibition as the liquor men wanted it, and opposed to 1t as the temperance people wanted 1t.
 Speakers Are Unlimited.
 MT. Kornegay. of Dallas, asked that the rule to limit speakers to ten min utes be enforced, he said. many speakers were not conflning their re- marks to the question. but were in- dulging in more or less ornate speeches.
 The chair holds" responded Acting Speaker Foster, that on a subject of this kind. 1t Is absolutely impossible to cut off the ornamentations.'
 Mir. Pitts. of Perry. was the next speaker. indulging in 6 characteristic address in support of the minority sub stitute. Prohibition does not prohibit, he said, but only helps to. suppress the liquor trafflc. He alluded to eX- perience In the past as an internal rev. enue agent in the search for blind tigers" He believed the dispensary was the only solution the question He thought the county unit would re- suit in displacing the dispensary. and bringing in of blind tigers that would ruin the negro labor of the State
 MT. Rice, of Tuscaloosa, favored the majority measure, telling some of the evil effects of the beat unit, as he saw them.
 Ma Rowe of Madison, was greatly opposed to the liquOr traffic. He had come to Montgomery, he said, to secure the abolition of the many saloons and wholesale liquor houses of Madison county. and Governor Conner had Tues day signed the bill for the dispensary there, accomplishing the desired result