The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-25
Busy Week Ahead for
 the Lawmakers.
BOTH HOUSES ARE sWAMPED
General Measures Will Be Given
 Right of Way.
Reyenue Bills, Proposed Tax Commis- < sion Law, and immigration. Depart meat Among Matters to Be Dis
 posed of.

Morning, afternoon and evening.
 That Is the program VI sessions ol ,',, su1 Legislature for this week There VIII be short intermissions between the ses-- sions-just long enough to get cup ol coffee and a sandwicn--but the Watcn- word of the solons during the last week of the first portion of the sessions VIII work
 Ana tba measnres that will be taken I'D will not be local bills or bills to change one word in sec.ion 4-ll-44 or the Code. They will be the important measures of she session. 1t will be eitn- CT a member who was born under lucky arrangement of the conscientious or one who is capable of the most ef- fective kind of wire -puiling--who suc- ceeds in getting a local ptii through tais week and. especially in the House, where the work will be the more stren- uous, a member may consider himself fortunate who is aole 10 get general bill through without first having had the Rules Commit .ee place 1t on the cal- endar as a special order.
 The calendar in the House at the present consists of fifty-five printed pages, almost four times as long as the fifteen pages of the Senate calendar And when 1t is considered that the Senate, with its mucn shorter roll call, and its fewer members who aspire Q regulations as orators. IS able to pass almost any kind of legislation with lar greater rapidity shan the House. it will be seen that 1t is "up to" the members of the lower house to .'get move on"
 Preparatory to the final weeks hard work, a large proportion of the mem bers both of the Senate and House left the Capitol City yesterday and hied themselves away to the rural places that know them when the Legislature uents what we are going to accom- plish during the coming week.
 General Revenue Balls in Senate.
 The result was deartn of lawmakers about the corridors of the hotels, and on the streets, where they are ordinarily to be seen on the Sabbatil day. during the hours when the churches are not hold ing services. Indeed, a number of the legislators tviio remained in Che city oy- CT Sunday spent the day in conference with political friends and leaders.
 The Senate calendar short as 1t Is, is prac .icahy free from any really impor- fant measuresh but the general revenue bills, which passed the House during the last day or two of lasl week, will come before the upper house of the first of the week. probably being taken up to- day, and Ghreshed out on the floor of the Senate. While it Is not believed as active an opposition will develop in the Senate as did m the House to one or two of the revenue measures, nothing Is cer- tain. The old saw thai nothing is sure but death and taxation does not apply in this case, despite the fact that these are the taxing bills.
 It is expec.ed the Senate, with it's more rapid machinery for the disposi- tion of proposed laws, smaller com mitees of which to secure a quorum, a smaller calendar to begin the week with. the infiuenc that senatorial courtesy" has on ti.e enactment of leg fslation. and the shorter roll calls to be made when the amendments and bills finally come to a vote, will not only be able to keep up with the House, but will practically clear it's calendar dur ing the week, entering on the recess at the close of business next Saturday eve ming with no measures undisposed of, no vain regrets of Senators with ex- plantations to make to their constitu- ents.
 The House has such burdensome calendar that, in all Likelihood, nothing but the most important bills, those af- fecting the State as whole. can be ta- ken up or considered in any manner. That fact of itself, as matter of course, will delay the progress of the legislative auto-car, as 1t is that class of bills which engenders the most ora tory, and consumes the longest time in passage.
 Fax Commission Coming Buck.
 The first matter of importance to be III vcnes. at 10 o'clock this morning will be the Tax Commission bill which was de- feated Saturday on a close vote The measure is one upon which his excel lency, the Governor, has set his heart, if one may judge by external evidences, and more than one member of the House since the vote was announced by Speaker Martin. with the bill defeated by a vote of 3S to 35. has been asked to softly tread the carpet in the private office in the northwest corner of the first floor of the Capitol. reserved for the use of Mir. Conner. Indeed, so ear nest has been the work on behalf of the measure that 1t is declared by those in a position to know, that the members will meekly reconsider the vote by which the Tax Commission bin was defeated. and win pass 1t by a majority of at least fifteen or twenty.
 Among the other measures which are likely to receive the attention of the House today are the bills providing for an expert examina- tion of the soils of the State, the one apropriating $25,000 for Aiabama's par ticipation in the ter-centennial exposi- tion at Jamestown. the committee sub stitute for the pure food bill, and the Senate anti-bucket shop measure.
 Any one, or all, of these, as well as others of somewhat lesser public in- terest that are likely to come up, may slip through without opposition or be defeated practically without debate. but any one Is just as likely to be product i've of a general argument that will consume hours and hours of the time of the session. It Is this possibility as to the reception of every bill that comes up that cerates such uncertainty as to the results of the weeks work and the consequent condition of the House calendar when the time comes for the eighteen week recess to be ta- ken
 What promises in advance to be a warm contest, in which all administra- lion and anti-administration lines. as well as other artificial barriers. have been swept away, is the reconsideration of the vote by which the immigration department measure was defeated last week. This reconsideration is set for Tuesday morning, and both sides arc confidently claiming the vote will show Q victory when the roll is called.
 Another measure coming up Tuesday,