The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-28
Solons Arc Nearing End
 of Work.
NO MORE TO BE INTRODUCED
Only Five More Legislative Days
 Are Left.
ondny and Tuesday, Only Meas- , Originating in the other Touse Will be Considered
 by Either.

The Alabama Legislature is rolling up it's sleeve for the last work There are just five more days and the work is cut out for the law makers.
 Friday saw the beginning of the end. When Fridays session had closed, no more bills were to be introduced. The Constitution requires that each bill be read three times in both Houses and this could not be done in five days.
 The last revenue bill has been pass ed and strange to say the last bill Of that character to be passed was the bill to repeal the lax on companies lending money in Alabama. It was passed at the Friday session
 Under the Constitution no revenue bill can be passed within five days of the final adjournment This provision was put in the Constitution to prevent the rushing through of the general revenue bill so fast that "jokers" could pass through unnoticed. Such things had happened in the past.
 Both Houses will hold sessions to- morrow and Thursday. Then another stage of the closing will have ended For after those days are held the Sen- ate will pass no Senate bills and the House will pass no House bills. The three remaining days will be devoted to clearing the calendars of bills which have already passed the other House. Tn the two days adjournment. the overworked clerks will be given the chance to get even with their work. The Legislature in spite of filibus- tering attempt by both the House and the Senate. has worked so rapidly that the clerks are at it day and night to get even with the records.
 The chief interest during the com- ing week will cen,er in the House The House has before it more import ant measures than the Senate. The bills and sent them over to the House.
 Greater Birmingham Bul.
 In the Senate the principal interest will center, strangely. about local bill. This local measure is the Great CT Birmingham bill. Birmingham Is before the Senate pleading for recog- hilton. If the Senate fails to pass the bill enlarging the city limits. the Magic City will remain the third largest city in the State, according to the popu- lation within the city limits. Accord ing to the last census, the census of 1890, Mobile had just fifty more pop ulation than Birmingham, while Bir- mingham had 5000 or 5000 more pop ulation than Montgomery.
 Since then both Mobile and Mont gomery have extended their limits. Montgomery has probably acquired an addition of more than 15.000 people. the growth has been in the suburbs just outside of the city limits. but in which the people depend upon Birln- ingham for their livelihood.
 The situation over the Greater Bir mingham bill is perhaps the most pe- ever figured. The Senate to a man, unless it Is Senator Miller. wants to pass the bill and give Birmingham every chance to grow farther. Sem ator Miller himself wants a Greater Birmingham.
 nI wtKH he'd db taoin taoinaaa But in the Jefferson County cam paign he was pledged to vote for bill referring the matter back to the voters for a decision on annexation There Is no chance of passage for such bill. The referendum idea was embodied in what was known as the Smeyer Bill. The Smeyer Bill is dead No Greater Birmingham will be established by the King bill or. not at all
 The Birmingham boomers are des- perate. They are coming back to- morrow with the determination that something shall be done
 Senator Miller can easily defeat the bill now before the Senate. if he cares to take the trouble. Senatorial courte-
 
 to legislate for his own district. Ii Senator Miller should make a personal appeal to his fellow Senators. the bill would be killed. But he has not in voked Senatorial courtesy. He has. however. fought the King Bill. but he fought it on the floor. He has refused to invoke Senatorial courtesy to beat the bill
 Mining Bill in House.
 In the House the Mining Bill hangs over the Representatives like menace. It was the one big question when the House adjourned Friday afternoon. A remarkable filibuster had been launch ed to keep the bill from coming Up for passage. The attempt was successtui so far as Friday went
 The bill was supposed to have been drawn in the interest of miners union of the State and to contain provislohs which the mine operators regardcd as over-burdensome It deals largely with the way in which mines are to be fitted up and with regulations govern ing the working of men in the mines The mine owners regard it with great oisfavor and are asking for its defeat, It Is one of the live wire questions which is to come before the House in the early part of the week.
 The Reynolds Compulsory Education Bill. with the endorsement of Governor
  at an early date Friends of this measure are watching for an opportuni- ty of bringing this bill up for pas sage. The educational forces of the state set great store by the measure and they are hopeful ttat it will have easy sailing in the House.
 The Blackmon Bill amending the anti-pass law so far as it applies to Sheriffs and their chief deputies will r,obably raise another row in the House The bill will probably have hard time in the House Committee on Commerce and Common Carriers. Rut the friends of the measure are confident that it has more man enough votes in the House to pass it.
 According to the rules Of the House, the majority can work its will in all things and if the friends of the ,asure are correct in their claims they will be able to call it from the diverse calendar And If they can do that. they can pass it,
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