The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-24
"God Be With You Till
 We Meet Again. '
PROGRAM WAS PREARRANGED
Women and. Senators Invited to
 Come in and Join.
Final Day in the House Proves Very ouiet one With No Business to Be Transacted by the
 Representatives.

Tn the 11OUoo oI HepEepeutatiNoc
 where the backbone of the entire pro-
 during the fight over the prohibition
 question. there were strange scenes en- acted when the hour for hnal adjourn ment arrived yesterday.
 At the request of Speaker Carmich. ael the doors were thrown wide open
 Women. most of them members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union of this city. were standing in the lobby and they were quickly invited to en- ter the Legislative hall. where they as- stunned prominent places.
 F., No sooner had they assembled than. led by President Gray, number of the members of the Senate entered and al- most immediately there arose In the hall the sounds of the old familiar hymn God Be With You Till We Meet Again
 All of this would have been most ef- fective had the situation not bcen pre- arranged. The first intimation of it came to the House when 1t was asked to pass upon resolution introduced by Representative Rushton that the Gov ernor. the Senators and other State of ficials be invited to enter the hall of the House and there unite in singing this particular hymn.
 The prearrangement of the circum- stances was also shown by the fact that q number of hymn books. bor- vowed from one of the churches of this city. had been carried into the House and distributed among the Representa- lives with the page on which the hymn was to be found turned down.
 It was this that spoiled the effective mess of what might have been one of the most dramatic scenes that has ever been enacted in the halls of the Legis- lature of Alabama.
 After three verses of the hymn had been sung. no one seemed to know just what ought to ke done next and 1t re- quired suggestion from the Speaker that a motion to adjourn sine die was in order to bring about the required motion to this effect.
 There was none of the good comradie that is usual with the breaking up of a legislative session. none of the fun that usually comes from 8 mock assembly of the House. Instead the members sim ply shook hands with each other, ex- plained that differences on the floor would have nothing to do with their future relations. and in a few moments after the extraordinary session had come to an end. the nall was deserted.
 1t had been waiting game with the House all day long. inc morning sea- sion did not convene until Il oclocks and beyond passing some slight amend ments offered by the Governor or the Senate. and acting on some resolutions that were offered merely for the pur- pose of having them appear on the Journal of the House. there was noth- ing accomplished in this branch of the legislature.
 The sessions of the House both in the morning and in the afternoon were of an informal character and the mem bers were permitted to do as they pleased until such time as the Speak CTS gavel would acquaint them with the fact that some message was to be considered.
 Not a single amendment offered either by the Governor or by the Senate met with any objection, the at titude of the House being that the mem bers had fought out the measures brought up for their dlscussion and that there was really no use in their any objection to any change in a bill.
 The following resolutions was of- fered by Mir. Maner and adopted by both House and Senate.
 Whereas between the years 1861 and 1868 the Federal government levied and collected from the Southern States the cotton tax of $ss, 100000 and where as the levy and collection of said cot ton tax was in violation of the Federal and whereas the people of the State of Alabama paid $10,O00 of this tax.
 Therefore be 1t resolved by the House and Senate eoncurring therein that we heartily indorse the bill intro- duced in Congress by Hon. J. Thomas Heflin of Alabama, providing for tke return of this cotton tax to the people"
 Just before the House took one of its recesses. Mir. Goodwin introduced a Which caused much laugh ter. It requested the speaker of the House and president of the Senate to wait on Brooks Lawrence and ask him f he had any other measues he would ike for the legislature to act on. It was ruled out of order.