The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-07

AVENUE TIVE 2 Ul HE .l z zzizss selection Of commissioners in Walker county.
 Other bills passed were To amend the act creating the Morgan county law and equity court.
 To require the sheriff of Lawrence coun- ty to publish list of the holders of reg- enue liquor licenses in Lawrence county. To authorize a high school in Chambers county
 To establish inferior court at Ensley.
 To amend the practice act in the circuit court of Crenshaw county.
 Contract Labor Bill.
 On the resumption of general bills in the afternoon the new county amendment measure was taken up again. Senator Moody resuming his speech.
 Mr. Moody opposed the bill. He argued that such a movement would be a bad precedent.
 Mr Miller said that only those people who were interested would work for the measure. It was necessary for the sani- tary conditions of the county that the big sanitary sewer just built be under one county authority.
 Mir Miller moved to amend so that the county seat of any new counties be not nearer than ten miles of county lines. l Tabled
 l MT Spragins moved to make the election for such new county by the voters of the old county as a whole. Tabled. l The vote stood for passage of the bill, l Ayes, g; nays, T.
 1 There was great cheering in the gal lery, which was filled with citizens from l Bessemer, who had been lobbying for the l bill.
 House Session.
 The bill to prevent display of nude pie lures save in art galleries was passed. 1 The bill to prohibit breaking of contracts was called up, Mir Hammer said it was simply to amend section 47SO of the code so as to put the landlord in the same po- siton as other employers of labor. MT. Miller put the senate on notice that the bill was move To lmprison for debt
 MT. Leith said that Mr. Miller was right. It would put the poor man in very dan gerous place. where he might be greatly injured.
 Senator Rled feared the bill would prove a hardship to those people who are most helpless before the law
 MT. Leith wanted to put the landlord and the tenant on the same basis as con cerns on obligation to keep a contract
 MT. Reid said 1t was one of the most pernicious of class legislation.
 The vote stood; Ayes 20, nays 12.
 Much Debate.
 The house was twenty minutes late in assembling for the forty-nlnth day, which oponed with prayer by the Rev. MT Ma lone, member from Henry county The standing committee reported a number l of senate bills, which were placed upon
 the calendar This wound up the commit l tee reports
 The first bill called under the regular l order was that of Senator Barbour to pro- vide for the establishment of high schools 1 In this state, and to make appropriations l for said schools. As the bill came from the senate 1t provides for schools in all counties where there are not now schools receiving state aid, such as agricultural and normal schools This has the ef- feet of excepting seventeen counties.
 The house committee reported an amendment that the seventeen excepted counties be given high schools whenever in the opinion of the governor the treas ury condition will permit of the establish ment of the schools MT. Arnold of Cal houn offered a substitute to provide schools for all the counties. The gov l ernor, auditor and superintendent of ed ucation are constituted a board of con | trol, and for county to obtain the ben
 eft of the appropriation 1t must first decd l to the state a site and buildings worth at l least $5000.
 The state will then appropriate 5000 an- | nually to the school to be devoted ex- 1 cfusively to the pay of teachers. The | school must be located as nearly as prac- | teal in tho center of the white popula- 1 tien of the several counties. Foster Amendment.
 There was considerable debate on the
 Arnold substitute, MT. Arnold supporting l it and Messrs. Bulger of Tallapoosa an1 | McDuffie of Monroe opposed. At the con- | cluslon of an eloquent speech MT. Me 1 Duffie moved to table the substitute
 which prevailed by a vote of 54 to 27. l MT. McCrary of Conecuh gaid in explain l ing his vote, that his county now has l an agricultural school and under the pro- | visions of the committee substitute 10 | give his county high school when the l treasury will permit he thought 1t would | be unfair to surrounding counties for Cone 1 cuh to have two schools receiving state 1 aid in single town, so he voted to table. | His stand in the matter was liberaly | applauded.
 MT. Foster of Tuscaloosa offered to | amend by delaying the establishment of
 the high scholos In the seventeen except
 ed schools until all the other counties | have schools.
 1 A HbllOH lO IiDle lIt SupShlAhlc "d0 l lost and it was then adopted. An amend | ment by Mir. Lee of Houston by striking | out the provision locating the school near
 est the center of population was adopted. | Speaker Carmichael submitted an | amendment requiring five acres of land 1 as a school site the avowed purpose of | the amendment being to take the schools l to the country districts It was adopted. MT. Tunstall of Hale amended by To- | eating the school in his county at Mound | Ville but it failed. The bill was then
 passed ages "a, nays 10. The considera- 1 ton of the bill consumed two hours. | MT. Lyons of Mobile presented the reso- l lution from the Mobile committee, in- | dorsing national appropriations for the | improvement of the port of Mobile which 1 were passed under a suspension of the | rules.
 The bill of Senator Jones of Wilcox to l submit to the qualified electors of the 1 state, at the general election to be held
 on the first Tuesday after the first Mon l day in November, 1908, for two associate l justices of the supreme court, for their 1 consideration an amendment to sections | 46 and AS of article of the constitution | so as to provide for biennial sessions of
 the legislature.
 | MT. John of Jefferson in a brief speech
 indorsed the bill. urging the necessity for 1 biennial sessions to properly legislate for | the best interests of the people of the
 state. The people should be given an | opportunity to say if they want sessions |