The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-17
TAX REDUCTION BILL
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nesses in criminal cases.
 | Senator Blackmon offered a bill to
 exempt slot gas machines from the H.
 censes tax placed on slot machines. | Good Roads Amendment.
 Senator Overton, who had a good
 roads bill defeated in committee be-
 cause 1t was unconstitutional to ap-
 propriate money from the State to pay
 for internal improvements. introduced
 bill for the submission of consti-
 tutional amendment to a vote of the
 people whereby the State can assist
 in the work of building good roads. The vexed question of regulating the
 operation of automobiles in the public
 roads of Alabama was touched upon | in a bill presented by Senator Gardner
 of Pike. The bill provides that the driver of an automobile must come to
 a full stop 15O feet distant when 1t Is about to pass a vehicle.
 The municipal code bill. which has
 been so much in the public eye. was
 favorably reported by Senator stroth- CT. chairman of the Senate Committee on Municipal Organizations. On his motion the bill was set as special ore
 der for 1 o'clock today.
 Senator Lefth conducted success full fight to get one of his local bills from the adverse calendar. The bill in question appropriated the sum or s1s5 to an ex-Tax Collector of Lamar County, who had paid that amount 10 the State under the erroneous direction of a State officer. After senator
 Leith's explanation had been heard by his fellow Senators. they voted 10 mt the bill on the calendar.
 Back to Committee. After spending practically whole
 day on the Hinson firearms Dill, the
 Senate did not pass 1t. Instead they sent the bill back to the Committee on Revision of Laws. Under tnis plll the county would license good citizens under certain restrictions 10 carry pis- tols. The holder of the license was re- ouired to wear a button inscribed, II am armed" A defendant who while carving a pistol illegally was not per- mitted to enter plea Of sel1 delehse
 The Senate had the bill up for nearly all of Friday. It spent nearly two hours on 1t yesterday. In the mean
 while the bill was subjected to rap,o
 fire of amendments. There seemed 10 he many changes wanted in 1t by the Senators. As time passed the Dill was considerably trimmed. At length IL
 wa. moved to send the bill back to the committee and the Senate went on with its work.
 The Governor sent in three messages to the Senate but they were snort ana on subjects of no great importance: The first returned at the request or the senate, 8 Perry County bill au- thorizine the Board of County Com missioners to appropriate $250 for the
 schools of Perry. At the request or Senator Reynolds the bill was sent hack to the Committee on Education:
 The second submitted eoare ane ns"nTS nf Trus. " tees of the University of Alabama who
 were elected in May under the Con .+itution by their fellow members. The names of the trustees so reported were Judge T. W. Coleman of Eutaw' J. IT. Johnson of Talladega and Thomas M. Stevens of Mobile.
 The third message informed the Leg ,s,ature that in accordance with joint
 resolution he had paid the funeral ex-
 nenses of the late Speaker w. l..
 Martin, out of the Governors conting- ant fund. He recommended that the Legislature pass a biH appropriating s591 to reimburse the contingent ruhd for the amount paid out.
 man N. l.. Miller of the Committee on Finance and Taxation was instruct
 ed to draw up g. bill for the appropria- tion.
 Crime of Burglary The bill amending the code In ref
 erence to the crime of burglary was called up by Senator Thomas. The
 new bill makes burglary of a house
 in which there are women in the day time burglary in the first degree, crime punishable by death. AS pre-
 viously amended the code makes burg
 lary of an inhabited house a capital
 offense The bill was passed. On re-assembling for the afternoon
 work, the Senate opened the way for
 introduced bills. The most importan mt of these was a bill by senator Leith.
 The bill makes telephone and tele- graph companies common carriers and
 as common carriers subject to the re-
 strictions and regulations which the
 State has thrown around common car riers.
 For Statue of Morgan. Senator Reese put in tne form of a bill his proposition to have statue of bronze or marble of the late Senator Morgan erected in the National Hall of Fame at Washington. The Dill car
 ries into effect the joint resolution in- troduced by Senator Reese earlier in
 the session The bill appropriates a blank sum of dollars for the purchase Of the monument. It is to be placed in the vacant niche which remains to Alabama
 The bill .as did the joint resolution. names Governor Conner. Miss Mary Nor gan and Congressman George w. Tay- Tor. members of the commission to se-
 lect and erect the statue. The bill
 was referred to the Committee on Fi- nance and Taxation.
 When the Senate had Riven its mem- bers a chance to get in their bills. the Senators went to the real work or the a1ternoon-the passage or local blIls. When the Senate adjourned for the
 morning session. senator Reynolds had called up the scnool bill, prescribing
 the course of study for the common
 schools of the State. There appeared to be some opposition to the bill and Sen ator Reynolds was busied in answering the questions of his colleagues The Senate quit work for dinner while this
 bill was under discussion.
 It was thought that the Senate
 would take up this as unfinished bus
 mess. but it went quickly into the pas
 sage ol local bills. The roll was call ed and each Senator was given the
 chance to call up two local bills.
 The Senate worked fast at this task.
 The bills were passed almost as rapid
 ly as the roll could be called
 Exempted From Juvenile Court.
 There was only one brier Interruption
 to the smooth. swift passage of local
 measures Senator Lusk objected to a bill called up by Senator Reese. of
 Dallas Coupty-a bil which excused
 that county from the operation of the Juvenile Court blIl The Marshall County Senator objected 10 the meas ure on the grounds that 1t was gen eral not local bill bas1ng the obJec- tion the proposltin tuat 1T The blII
 was passed crime would be punished in that county different from the way it was punished m other counties Of the state
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