The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-08
GOVERNOR TAKES BACKWATER ON TWO AND A HALF CENT BILL

make 1t effective sixty days from its approval by the Governor.
 The. amendments were adopted on the motion of Senator Lusk-
 When the Governors amendments reached the House, through the medium of message from the Senate, announc- ing the adoption of the changes desir' ed by Mir. Conner. MT. Long of But Ter Chairman of the Committee on the floor leader for all administration railroad bills. moved at once the amend ments be concurred in.
 Two Conflicting Statements. MT. Tunstail objected to this, say ing as he had caught the amend ments from their reading by the clerk there were two conflicting sections. One provision in the amendments, as he understood them from the reading, provided the bill should be enectlve sixty days after Its passage, whiie another provided the measure shouio take effect from and after us pas sage
 MT. Long was unable to give an ex- planatton os the apparent discrepanry at the time, and the bill and proposed amendments were laid over for few minutes. while MT. Long posted him self regarding the question raised py MT. Tunstell.
 A few moments later. MT. Long again called up the bill and explain ed that the two provisions applied to different sections of the bill. One provided the railroads should place the tickets provided for by another of the Governors amendments at the ex- pirstior of sixty days, while the gen. eral section at the end Of the plIl making 1t effective immediately was merely the declaration oe when the bill as q whole should take effect, sort of enacting clause
 The House then proceeded to vote upon the question Of concurrence fin ,he amendments, which was done without opposition, by vote of eigh- ty-flve to nothing.
 The old fight on the organization of the Senate between the minority ana the majority had still another echo in she Senate yesterday, when Senator Reese Of Dallss arose te question af personal privilege. The question involved was his service upon the committee tupor the revision of the journal He had asked to be re- :ieved from that service. and he was refused an excuse for lack of unani- mors consent. He then introduced resolution which declared he should be given that excuse
 Tn making his point of personal privilege Senator Reese said:
 Reese Pieads for Release. : 4 am making no wholesale criti- cism of the appointment of the com mIttees and the assignment OF minori- tv members to the various commit tees. was made a member of one or two Of the important committees of the Senate, and one of the most inn portant committees O. the Senate Is that committee whose duty it is to revise the journal, to see the bills are passed legally and constitutiOnally.
 But, Mir. President, have been forced into the false attitude Of op- posing the administration on it's i'm" portant questions. As member of the so-called minority. I have been forced into a false attitude, before the people, to meet a political emer- gency os some men, to serve their own end.
 'r have beIied that attitude by my vote cast for every railroad measure approved by the administration. But have been held up as an enemy of the administration was assigned to the duty of seeing that every bill in It's passage through the Senate was made to meet the many requirements of our constitution. Mir. President, b grave scandals have followed the ad- journmeI:l oe past Legislatures. Many measures of the greatest importance to the people of Alabama haves been declared unconstitutional because there was a fault intentional or unin- tentional in the journal. Some men have been subjected to criticism by those grave errors
 Consider, gentlemen, the pitiful position in which you have placed me- You hold me as an enemy of the ad- ministration because I am in the so-caIled minority, but you place upon me the burden of seeing that the grave measures on which the last campaign which was fought are con- additionally and legally passed. This Legislature will hardly prove an ex- | ception to the past. Some of these measures will be attached in the | courts, and some of them may be de- | clared unconstitutional.
 If that is done, consider. gentle men, my position. A flood of suspi-