The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-01
WILL NOT AID
 PROHIBITION Conner Stands for Local
 Option. TEMPERANCE MEN so INFORMED Question If He Would Veto Gen eral Anti-Booze Bill. Fear Expressed that Many of the Leg isiators wul Not Be AbIe to
 Attend the Extra
 session.

The State administration will not give voluntary al dto State prohibit .tion bill. The prohibition leaders of Alabama know that the Governor and his political advisers who were promi- nent in the campaign. will not lend any assistance to the movement to have the Legislature take up and pass the general prohibition bill.
 It is an open secret that the anti saloon leaders have been told this. But will the Governors negative op- position to a State prohibition bill go far enough for him to veto it? That is question on which two opinions are expressed.
 The Governors political advisers have told the prohibition people:
 "The Governor stood for local or- tion in the campaign. He said some thing fin support of it at every place at which he spoke. he was for the sort of local option that the Anti-Sa- loon League wanted. He was for the county as the unit and not the city--a position which few months ago was considered an advanced position on the temperance question. He recommended local option in his message to the Leg. islature.
 ".rhe administration then let the nti-Saloon League write the sort of local option bill it wanted. He has given the State exactly what he and the State Democratic platform prom ised. Now don't you think. you are asking little too much when you ask him to abandon the position he occu- pied in the campaign and demand a prohibition bill which will apply to the counties which have not yet had the opportunity of calling a local option election?"
 It is an open secret that this sort of comfort has been handed the prohibi- ton leaders who have been laboring to get the prohibition question before the Legislature. It is an open secret that Governor Conner was importuned to put prohibition paragraph in his cal for the extra session. but refused to do it. This 4n itself is an index to his attitude on the question. So, if the prohibitionists insist on making pro- hibition fight, as they no doubt will. they will make 1t independent of the administration.
 senator Henry F. Reese. of Dallas county, was in the city yesterday and he depressed the opinion that the absorbing subject before the Legisia- ture would be prohibition. rather than railroad legislation. He believed that so much interest was being felt in the question that 1t would command the center of the stage during the extra session.
 T regret the assembling of the extra session." said Senator Reese. 'Tt comes at a most inopportune time. Most of the members of the House and Senate have pressing personal business at this time of the year. They will come to Montgomery at a sacrifice and with many of my associates cherished the hope that existing controversies could be settled without an extra ses- sion."
 May be Short Attendance. A number of the members of the Legislature have been in Montgomery since the beginning of the State Fair. Each one of them, without an excep- ton. has regretted the assembling of the Legislature.
 The fear is expressed that many oi the more prominent members cannot attend the session. Several members have announced that they can remain only few days. As general thing courts are in session throughout Ala. bama. and the time of the lawyer mem bers is engaged. At this season of the year the business members are settling up their affairs at the end of the year and they will find as much difficulty iu spending a month in Montgomery as the lawyers
 As a result it is expected that after