The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-13
LEGISLATURE HAS WORK
 CUT OUT FOR MANY WEEKS
Much Interest Taken in Prospective Action as to the Line to Be Adopted in Passing Injunction
 Proof Laws Against the Railroads.

The Alabama Legislature, meeting in yxtra session on November :. has it's work cut out for it until time to go home and spend Christmas. This Is the opinion of the knowing ones who have taken in the extent of the Cover ncr's big call.
 It means thirty days work at the least, so they say. and with committee davs the legislative session will go over unil the glad yuletide days. In the first place. there is the new rail- road code to build. The Governor put twenty-seven items in his call and eighteen of the items were of a rail- road nature. ID order that there might not be any dispute as to the constitu- tionality of apy railroad measure which might be offered, the Governor provided in one section that the extra session should be authorized to take up and pass any railroad bill which might be presented.
 or course the backbone of the call is railroad legislation. And the patent purpose of the Governor Is to get some injunction proof railroad acts passed if he can.
 But the Governor threw in several other things for good measure. In ad- dition to this, several members will try to work the two-t thirds rule. No bus mess that is not named in the call can be considered except by two-thirds vote of the members of each house.
 The prohibitionists have already got ten busy. in order to have two-thirds of the members to agree to vote for State prohibition bill. They may or may not be successful. The outcome of this movement just now is very much in doubt.
 Then an effort will be made to have . new pension law passed. The pen- sion act of the summer session has aroused great dissatisfaction among the old veterans, not so much because the payments are made quarterly as a protection tothe State treasury. but be- cause the pensioners lose nine months pension pay during the first year of the operations of the act. Some of the members who have been harshly crit tcixed at home because of this act will try to get two-thirds vote on bill to remove the cause of complaint.
 The mention by the Governor Of the fertilizer act as a subject for consider @tion at the extra session is taken to show that the cotton seed meal men. the oil mill and cotton seed people of the State had some justice in the com piaint that they were badly treated in the fertilizer bin pessed at the winter session. It is a concession Co the man ufacturers which was denied by the Legislature.
 The Governors call revived the Rey- holds compulsory education bill which died in the House. Senator Reynolds himself does not claim that his bill is an effective compulsory educational bill, because he does not believe that Alabama is yet ready for rigid com pulsory education act. But he says 1t is step in the right direction and ev- sdently the Governor agrees with him.
 Section 21 in the call as 1t cuts out work for the Legislature, takes cog nizance of another measure which passed peacefully away on the House Calendar. This was a bill regulating the sale of stocks of merchandise in bulk and was designed to prevent the defrasding of creditors. The Senate saw merit in the bill, but the House was willing to stand by and let 1t pass away on the calendar.
 Birmingham LegislatiOn.
 Of course Birmingham had to come forward with fuss before the Legis- lature. No Legislature has been Tn session since the war but what Jer- ferson County brought down a lot of family fusses. Jefferson County thrasnes out more local troubles than all the balance of the State. It is small wonder that the Governor open ed the call far enough to let in one or Jefferson County's russes.
 This time it is the Police Commits sion scrap. Birmingham, as it is gem orally known, has two Police Commits