The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-24
Sensational Feature Is Killing of Club House Bill
BILLS SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
Among Them Is the Measure To Pre-. vent Carrying or Sale of Fire
 arms Less Than 24
 Inches Long.

Montgomery, November 29.-(Special.)- The first extra session of the Alabama legislature held i'm several years came to an cpd just before o'clock this after noon, when President Henry B. Gray in the senate, and Speaker Carmichael in the house, rapped with their gavels and declared that the business before each house had been disposed of. Committees had returned with the information that the governor had nothing more to trans init.
 The most sensational thing of the day withathe final killing of the club house act in me senate after it had been promised life and had been taken from an adverse report on the part of the senate commit tee. It was called up early and almost at once MT. Miller and MT. Merritt be- gan to throw stones at it. They Insisted that it's provisions were dangerous and that for all practical purposes the general bill met the evils of the club feature. No one stood up to fight for it when a motion was made to indefinitely post pone, so it went to Davy Jones locker by this route.
 Other Bills Passed.
 The other bills passed were to allow graduates of the law school at the Uni versity to be licensed to practice with out examination and repeal the tax on foreign loans. The house had nothing to do except agree with the governor on some amendments of minor nature and wait for the enrolment of senate bills. Gnanlrar .rpip aI nd Ct-axr made frequent trips to the executive of fees and the clerks offices to look over bills and G number of conferences were held to see that all was well in the mat ter of recording and checking.
 These important bills were signed by the governor this afternoon To repeal the delinquent children act; to provide guards for Mobile jail; amend city court of Anniston; regulate fine and forfeiture fund of Washington county; fix time of court in Walker and Winston and in Chiffon; election for prohibition in Cren- shaw; create Huntsville school district increase allotment of patients in insane hospital to $3. 50 per day; regulate cleo tions by allowing registration before each municipal primary; placing all pen sioners over eight on the first class lists; to fix time of court in Marion county; local laws for practice in courts of Franklin and Marion counties; better pay of witnesses In courts of Walker coun- ty to extend time of completion of the court house and jail at Chatham, and pre- vent the sale of firearms and such arms in the state, preventing the carrying of a gun of less than "A inches.
 The Senate Today.
 The senate passed the loan tax bill this morning with only Hammer and Me- Whorter voting against it. MT. Miller ex- plained that it was the same bill that was passed at the July session which did not get to the authority of law. It appeals the entrance tax on foreign money and put the fees back to 25 per cent on the first $100 and .0l of l per cent on the rest.
 Bills to amend the board of revenue act of Houston county passed; also one against the sale of liquor in Pickens county. The Carmichael bill to make 1t unnecessary for indictments in prose- , cutions for violations of the liquor laws was also indorsed.
 Among the other bills passed was that to prevent shipments of liquors by c. O D. and license graduates of the Uni versity law school without examination.
 The act to allow clerks of city courts ex officio fees came near getting killed after an onslaught by MT. Lusk, who said it would open the treasury of the
  , of the minor courts. The vote stood 12 to ', and was declared lost. Verification
 was resisted by MT. Lusk, but, after some talk by MT. Blackmon 1t was secured and the vote stood 13 to 6. and the chair declared the bill passed.
 Club House Bill.
 After this came the club house bill. l An agreement had been reached to pass l it today However, MT. Merritt moved the first thing to postpone it and pend- | ing amendments indefinitely. This caused , a stir. He said the general prohibition bill covered the grounds also that to
 adopt the bill would be to legalize the sale of liquors In all clubs now organized. Senator Reese took a different view; he did not think the bill would have that effect. The agreement was at the instance of the temperance people. Mir. Miller agreed with MT. Merritt that the general bill meets the conditions aRl he was against the club house measuSR. Under this bill, he insisted, man might be held responsible for a bottle of whis- ky in a locker though he be ever so innocent of wrong
 After the speech of MT. Miller the senate voted almost unanimously to kill the club house bill, thus putting 1t to sleep the third time in three days. Thursday 1t was adversed by the temperance com mittee of the senate: Friday brought 1t to light in an attempt to get it from the adverse report, but it went back: Friday afternoonf by agreement of all sides, it was reported favorably to be passed this morning, wI.ich it did not.