The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-21
NO QUORUMS IN COMMITTEES Legislators Have Gone
 Home. NOT A CORPORAL'S GUARD LEFT Work of Session is Now in Excel
 lent Condition. with the Passing of Co.e By Senate and Municipal Bill by House,
 Legislature Win Have Im-
 Dortant Work Completed.
NOT A CORPORAI'S GUARD LEFT

it was mo quorum" day yesterday with the committees of the Alabama Legislature There was not a corpor- Sels guard of the Senators and Repre- sentattves left in the city. and every time an effort was made to hold a com mfttee meeting. the effort failed be- cause no committee could get a uuo- rum
 The Finance and Taxation Commit tee of the Senate had planned to meet and pass on several of me bills now before the committee. The best the committee could do was to get togeth- CT four Senators. And the Constitu- tion provides that such a number shall not do the business of a committed
 senator John Overton was at the Capitol in a brand new summer suit and he tried to get his Commerce and Common Carriers Committee together but he searched around the Capitol in vain. There were not enough Senators to make quorum.
 Senator Overton was desirous of hav- ing his committee pass upon his bill which authorizes the Railroad Commits sion to forbid the running of freight trains in Alabama on Sunday when conditions will. in the opinion of the Commission. justify it, but the Randolph Senator could not find enough of his committee to do business.
 In the House the anne condition pre- vailed Speaker A. H. Carmichael. and number of the more prominent members of the House remained in the city. but an overwhelming majority of the Representatives toos advantage of the recess to go home and see their families. The House committees as a whole were as conspicuous by their ap- sence as were the Senate committees. There was simply nothing doing in either branch of tho Legislature.
 The adjournment was from Friday night until Tuesday at noon. Every member of the Alabama Legislature under this adjournment mad the oppor- tunity of going home and returning to the Capitol by noon Tuesday. Every train that went out of Montgomery Saturday morning carried members of the Legislature. Some of them are ex- pected back tonight. Others are look ed for tomorrow morning. So .tomor- row it is appointed that the commit tees shall do the work that was cut out for them during the three days recess.
 Boon To The Clerks.
 The three days recess was a grate- full boon to the overworked clerks and secretaries of both Houses. The two Houses have worked fast and furious on the days they have been in session They have worked so fast. introduced so many bills and passed so many bills that no clerical force could keeI abreast of them
 The Hall of Representatives and the Senate Chamber were quiet and almost deserted yesterday but in the offices of Secretary J. A. Kyle and Clerk Cy Brown, the typewriters were rattling the journal clerks were reading and comparing and much noise and work filled the rooms. It is thought by Tuesday that the clerks will be com pletely up with the work and the ~fs.I- ginning of the end, when it reconvenes on Tuesday.
 When the Senators and Representa- lives meet Tuesday they will have eight days of the constitutional limit of fifty days remaining to them Nc one believes now that there will be ar extra or special session of the Legis- lature. It is taken for granted tha, the Legislature will finish completely the work before 1t within the next eight legislative days
 The work is in much better shape than the legislative leaders had any reason to expect. The bills which il was thought would provoke division and disssensino have failed to do so The Municipal Bill, thought to be 8 possible trouble breeder. was passed by the Senate in less than fifteer / minutes The new Code Bill was pass. ed by the House in the same easy anG quick way.
 Now the House has the Municipa Code Bill to pass and the Senate has the Code bill to pass. Both will come up Tuesday as special orders and il is possible bills will be passed at the one days session. Their passage will be the discharge of the most i'm portant duty of the Legislature at its July session.
 On The Home Stretch.
 The Legislature then can prepare its program of work until final ad- journment It is expected that the last few days of the session will be run close together, that Is. there will not be somany recess days as there have been during the past two weeks One or two days will be given the clerks ir order that they may be ready with the full journals on the last day.
 It is now confidently believed that