The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-19

 cation So the preliminary considera- tion of the bill will he taken up with stirring speeches on that question.
 And there are some antis in the Senate who may have the temerity to go out against the popular wave. So 1t is easy to predict that 1t will be some time in the afternoon before the final
 Many Mobllians Here.
 The lobby of the Exchange Hotel last night might have been taken for the lobby of the Cawthon. there were so many Mobilians moving around. The Mobile delegation certainly had a busy time greeting constituents. There were Mayor Lyons, Major E. M. Albert Bush, A. IT. Spira. and many others and the big crowd is to come this morning.
 Most of the Mobile ministers of the protestant denominations were at the Capitol yesterday moving among the members of the Senate.
 Mobile ladies opposed to the bill were Miss M. E. kimball and Mrs. Emma Semmes Colson, who are connected with the educational system of Mobile. which 1t is agreed will be seriously injured if the State prohibition bill passes.
 With the ministers upholding the bill were Mrs. Price Williams, Mrs. Ashby Hubbard. Mrs. ". D. Rayford and Mrs. J. T. Dumas.
 the State are taking hand in the fight, determined to make Mobile good, ac- cordtng to their ideas.
 Walter Sessions, who wasrffhe head of the successful prohibition campaign committee in Jefferson County, was prominent in the crowd last night and others were there who. were expected to give what assistance they could to the prohibition fight.
 Mrs. I. W. Sibley and Mrs. w. Il. Jeffers of Birmingham. who took an active interest in the Birmingham fight, were also visitors to the city with the intention of staying until the fight in the Senate is over.
 = The Mobile business men are serious ly concerned over the proposed law. They say they are opposing 1t for two prime reasons. The first of these is that it will destroy the school system which Is the pride and boast of Mobile and the second is that if the Legisla. ture passes it against the popular will of the people of Mobile. 1t can not pos- sibly be enforced.
 They are bringing these arguments to bear upon the members of the Sens ate. The Senate has been lending an attentive ear to the popular cry, and the opponents of State prohibition are not finding 1t an easy matter to con- vince them that the fair and just thing to do is to enact the plank in the State platform which declares for local option. and let the whiskey question go with tha.
 Montgomery Also Interested.
 Montgomery is only less vitauy in- terested in the fight than Is Mobile. All that can be- said Of Mobile can also be said of Montgomery. with the exception that Montgomery's school system is not dependent upon the rev enue derived from whiskey licenses.
 ButN the city's finances would be as seriously impaired as would be the of the city of Mobile.
 It would be as difficuit, too, for State to be enforced in Mont gomery as in Mobile.
 The antis are urging that Mont gornery be given the same chance as Anniston and Gadsden to vote on the question. but the Senate rial ear seems turned in another df- rection.
 But in all probability. if the State prohibition pill passes the Senate to- day, the election already ordered in will be called on.