The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-03
ONLY SEVEN SENATOR'S
 VOTE AGAINST AMENDMENT
Lusk, Spragins, Miller and Moody Speak Against It.
Proposal is to Submit Amendment to Constitution Permitting ApprO- DRiations for Internal I'm.
 provements-Twenty
 Senators Vote for It.

Senator Overton yesterday won his long fight and had his Good Roads Bill passed by the Senate, with four votes to spare. The bill is the result of the most thorough thought and study of the advocates of good roads in Ala bama. and it was endorsed by Senator John H. Bankhead and other friends of good roads in Alabama.
 The bill submits constitutional amendment to the people of Alabama by which the State will be authorized to help in the establishment of good roads-a work which is forbidden by the present Constitution.
 The first bill presented by Senator Overton made a direct appropriat ton for good roads and established Good Roads Commission" This bill last winter was defeated on the grounds of its unconstitutionality. Nothing -daunted by the defeat. Senator Overton prepared bill embodying constitu- tional amendment by means of which the State would be authorized to make appropriations to help those counties which were trying to help themselve
 This bill was adversed by the Com mittee on Commerce and Common Car riers. Pursuing his fight Senator Overton got the bill from the adverse calendar and before the Senate.
 Being a bill proposing to, change the Constitution the bill could only pass by a three -fifths vote-that is, with twen- ty-one Senators voting for 1t. Senator Overton worked among his colleagues until he was convinced that he had enough votes to meet the constitution al requirement for a bill which had at one time beer turned down by Sem ater Committee. His confidence, was we'll founded, for yesterday on the vote, the bill was supported by twenty live Senators
 The Lusk bill to authorize and pro- vide a means of taking charge of the property of foreign corporations whose charters have been declared forfeited was the subject of a warm discussion throughout the morning session. It came to be called the confiscation bill. and several Senators criticized it un- sparingly.
 Senator Spragins spoke of 1t as be- ing with all due respect to the au- thor a shameful piece of legislation" After battling the question back and forth half the morning, the Senate ad- iourned for dinner with the bill still
 X Notch Toward Adjournment.
 The Legislature yesterday made an- other stage towards adjournment. When adjournment was taken last night the House had passed the last House bill it was possible to pass at this session and the Senate had passed the last Senate bill which 1t was possi- ble to pass at this session.
 From now until Wednesday night the Senate will, devote its exclusive time to the passage of House bills and the House will devote its exclusive time to the passage of Senate bills. The two remaining working days have been set for Tuesday and Wednesday.
 The Committees will do their last work today and Monday. By Monday night the work of the Committees will be practically finished and the long sessions of the two Houses will con- tinue without interruption.
 The Overton Good Roads bill had been made a special order. and as such 1t came up early in the morning. Sem ator Overton took the floor in the fn- terest of the measure. The bill con- tained a solution of the problem of building good roads. The people of Alabama were anxious to have good roads, and they would quickly mani fest their sentiments if they were given the opportunity of voting on it. The bill itself was nothing more than a proposition to submit the question of good roads to the people. and Senator Overton said he was quite willing to leave the question to their judgment
 Senator Wilson was for the bill. He was for the bill because 1t promised good roads, and there was no ques- ton of more vital importance to the