The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-19

i'i the recess Will be reached by March
 2' in the neghborhood of the end of the
 thirty-fifth day of work. As a move in
 that direction 1t was agreed that the two
 houses will adjourn from Monday to
 wednesday and from Thursday to satur-
 day Of this week. Mr. Lusk in the sen
 ale, and MT. John in the house. argued
 lhat this would give time for the com
 hlttees to work out bills in their hands
 and, with one day lay off next week.
 be able to get away by Saturday.
 
 The most interesting work of the day was the effort in the senate, which
 proved success, to increase the appro- priation for the common schools S35O, . 900 instead of $9O0,00OO as was reported l from the committee on finance and taxa 1 ton.
 Reporting for the committee Mr. Miller
 said the house bill to make the increase
 S5oo,ooo had been amended to have the ex-
 penditure begin next year, as the con tracts had already been made for this year.
 Mir, Barbour led the fight for an amend nent to increase the amount 10 S35O 0p,
 as none of 1t was to be available this
 year, saving thereby the appropriation Tor one year. MT. Blackmon tried to
 have it put at s40O,OOO but failed, his mo- ton being tabled An effort to table the l motion of Mir. Barbour failed. The bill then passed with the increase. MT Barbour said after the session that ne believed from what the governor had said to him and In his presence that he
 would sign the bill as passed MilIer's lnsistence. MT. Miller insisted that the bill re-
 main as it was reported, 1t being the
 sense of the committee that the arrange ment was as good as would be Justified In the light of the other appropria tions. MT. Strother tried to have the bill
 amended to make the amount s4OO.OOO | after 1908, but was voted down. Other features of the school effort of
 the day in the senate were bills by MT.
 Blaclmon for the state to establish free 1 libraries in schools that are not able to procure them, and by Mr. Reynolds to provide in each congressional district a | high school, to be located in town of some county that has no school at this time of the high school grade There are to be ten. so that one district will | have two, to be located by board con- l sisting of the governor, the auditor and | the superintendent of education.
 Deaf and Dumb Trustee. The election of the trustees of the deaf | and dumb school was reported to the
 senate in message from the governor l and the members of the board confirmed as follows: Fourth district J. B. McNIil- | Ian and G. A. Joiner; Fifth. w. II. Hurt; 1 Sixth, M. B. Cameron; Seventh w. J. Boykin; Eighth, T. M. Hobbs; Ninth. l s. E. Greene.
 l Attention was called by MT. Thomas to l the fact that the reference of the mes sage of the governor conveying a list of
 the elected trustees of the university to i the committee on education some days
 ago was an error, as the senate should
 have considered the message at once. The
 message was recalled and the trustees | affirmed by the senate The list includes
 M. P. LeGrand, Daniel Pratt. II. r. | Davis, H. Morrow, E. H. Glenn, T. C.
 McClelland and II. B. Foster. l The bill for the maintenance of Au- | burn was reported favorably with an l amendment to make the amounts each year for four, follows: s32.000, s36, ,0O0
 s3S0O0 and $4O,OOO This was done to meet | the demands that will be brought about 1 by the additional demand when the new l buildings are erected.
 The bill to prevent tipping and one to make the penalty for assault with intent | to ravish punishable by death were re-
 ported favorably to the senate
 House Session. l In the house the bill to provide for 1 the salaries of town officers was passed | fixing the maximum salary of mayors at
 $500 Salaries of subordinate officers are l to be fixed by two-thirds of the alder l men. and no member of any corporation l ,,r aftt 1,. 1 council board.
 The bills for Greater Birmingham and l for merger of towns and cities were l passed. the Greater Birmingham bill re- qurlng that property of industrial plants | coming in shall not be taxed for ten 1 years MT. John led the fight for the ex- emption feature. having the time made
 ten instead of twenty-five years as the | bill required. There is aiso feature | exempting property lying between towns l that will be taken in.
 i The bill to define negotiable instruments
 was passed, as was that providing for | cities acquiring and owning water works l The immigration bill went over to | Wednesday. as did the university appro- priaton bills. A bill was also passed pro- viding for elimination of registration for | city elections if voters have registered l in the state elections.
 The house also passed the bill 10 pre- vent lnc eNlllDllloH Oi pltlulVS ol Huut l men and women in public other than in
 art galleries. MT. Haley presented bills 1 to allow certain streets in North Bir 1 mingham to be closed and to increase the l salary of the clerk of the police court | of Birmingham from 800 to sl500. The house agreed to the amendment of 1 the common school bill to make the
 amount $S50,0O0 year additional after 1 this year.
 King Salary Bill Postponed. The salary bill presented by Mir King
 of Jefferson was put to the bad in the
 house. It was taken up by the house as l a special order and defended by Mir. King, 1 who pointed out that in the larger coun- | ties under the fee system enormous | amounts are made. In Jefferson, he said, 1 the sheriff made net Sl00,000 in six years 1 for feeding prisoners
 | MT Hoffman of Mobile said the bill was
 unconstitutional and fought it. Mir, Pitts l of Perry made talk against the bill | and moved that it go to the table in- 1 definitely which was carried 45 to 31 l The omnibus salary bill passed the
 house without opposition and will be sent l to the governor at once. By it all the l salaries in the capitol are raised prac- 1 tically. Heads of departments will receive l 5000 and chief clerks siS00
 | The senate passed more than fifty local l bills at the afternoon session. I