The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-20
COLONY FOR
 EPILEPTICS Senate Passes Measure
 For Institution. PURE FOOD BILL GOES THROUGH Slight Opposition to Either Bill by the Senators. Adjournment to Tuesday Finds the Upper House In Good shape, With
 No Big General or Local
 Bills Pending

Ho oSHdtc ycStCIudy toOk two steps forward in the enactment of reform and eleemosynary legislation. The Me- Whorter bill to establish q colony for cp1leptics and the Lovelady pure drugs bill were passed.
 There was but slight opposition to either measure. The Senate seemed in the mood for enacting reform legisla- ton and both bills went through with but slight opposition.
 Temperance sentiment also made it's influence felt in the Senate for the Mer- dispensaries are now located to have an immediate local option election was passed and but few of the Senators stood out in opposition to 1t. Special interest attaches to this bill because Senator Merritt, who wrote and passed the bill. fought for and had adopted all amendment to the local option act at the winter session which assured counties in which dispensaries had al- ready been established that no election could be held within two years.
 But Senator Merritt, during the re- cess. learned that the people of his County of Macon wanted chance to vote on the Tuskegee dispensary. So he came back to the Senate with the purpose of eliminating the provision in the local option act which he himself had had inserted.
 He was helped in his fight by Senator Jones of Wilcox County. who had stood by him in the struggle during the win ter session for the amendment Sen ator Jones was also convinced that his people wanted chance to get at the dispensary at Camden. and on the floor of the Senate he declared his purpose of following out the wishes of his peo. pie in giving them an opportunity oi banishing the Camden dispensary. il such was their wish.
 Ready for Adjournment.
 The Senate quit work yesterday af. ternoon for an adjournment unti Tuesday at noon with the calendar ir an excellent condition. The roll had passed his local bill. When the Sen ate adjourned there was no local bill on the calendar which any Senator wanted passed. In short the Senate had finished its local Legislation tc date.
 Nor are there any general bills ol momentous character to prevent ar adjournment of the Senate by Angus l. The Senate will be in a position tt adjourn by that time without tho day now depends only upon the House The Senate certainlytwill not nafd an. The only measure of special import
 
 new code. The bill adopting the cod was made a special order for the nex legislative day, which will be Tuesday and with the passage of this importan bill-and in all probability the Senate will pass 1t quickly and easily-tht Senate will be in position to adjourn whenever 1t wants to adjourn
 The prayer In the Senate at thu opening was offered by Representativ, Price of Russell County There were txxyn nofu time.
 The call for the introduction of bill. brought out an important measure from Senator Overton. who Is Chair man of the Committee on Commerc, and Common Carriers and who has in troduced practically all of the admin istration's railroad measures: The bil of Senator Overton yesterday deal with the Sunday freight train proposi tion.
 Under his bill the Railroad Commis sion of Alabama is given the right tt prevent the running of freight train! on Sunday. The bill declares that th' Commission. when 1t is convinced tha seriously interfere with the commerce. and industry of the State, may forbiC the transports ton of general freight or
 Bill Cor the Veteran.
 At the afternoon session when tn, gate was opened for new bills, Sena tor Teasiev. of Montgomery. introduced a bill to pay the expenses of the an nual reunion of Confederate Veterans of Alabama. The bill carries an an nual appropriation of $2.000. Thi. money Is 10 be used to pay the neces sary expenses of the old soldiers wher they meet In their annual reunions.
 A number of the leading Confeder ate veterans of Montgomery are inter ested fin the measure. They hold tha 1t Is as little as the State can do tt provide an annual gathering of tho remnant of the army which made sucl sacrifices for the State of Alabama. l the bill is enacted into law. the frs appropriation will be made to the pay ment of the reunion which will be helS in Montgomery In October
 Another bill in which considerable local Interest attaches was introduced by Senator Leith of Walker County "bv request" This bill increases in ! small measure the annual apprcpria tion made to the Negro Normal School Both bills were sent to the Committed on Finance and Taxation.
 Institution for EPileptics.
 The passage of the McWhorter bill establishing colony for epileptics marks new departure in the legisla tion of the State In several of the wealthier states such an institution has been established and it's value has been proven because 1t has been shown that large part "f the youthful cpl
 
 Senator McWhorter. who is former President of the Alabama Medical As sociation, made strong and eloquent appeal for his bill. He realized that most of his fellow Senators. being lay men, would not understand and arprr- ciate the movement to establish d col ony at which epileptics could be treat cd
 The original bill carried an appro- priation If $100.0Od senator McWhor fer himself offered an amendment re- ducing t' ] appropriation from that sum to $20,0od.
 In his eloquent plea for the bill Sen ator McWhorter said:
 Tt is customary to refer to hospit- als. asylums. epilertic colonies and in stitutions for the blind as humane and are in the highest sense: but they are more than this They are mlestones by which we measure the progress a people has made upon the highway of civilzatio and retiner.ent.
 "Thcy serve to diferentiat1 us from savages only barbarous people neg lect the helpless and afflicted of their or in the jungles of India the deform- ed child is thrown to the crocodile or exposed to the wild beast
 Not so amid the premier nations which rule the world. Here these un- fortunates receive the most loving and tender care. while their mighty pro tertors gather new and noble moral strength and clearer spiritual vision by the efforts made in their behalf With the boundless energy developed bv the exercise of noble function. these weddings are scarcely a tax upon us Rut whether we protect or destroy them whether we select the Massachu-