The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-03
PASS SHERIFF'S BILL
HOUSE RECONsIDERs ACTION ON
 MEASURE.
AfternooD Vote k ReconsidereN at Night Session. a.d, After Amend-
 nent, Fee Blll for Boarding Prisoners ls Adovted.

The House last night reconsidered it's vote of the day session. defeating the bill to regulate the fees of sheri;fs for feeding prisoners and . substitute was offered by MT. Norville of Mobile, which provided that fsheriffs should have 50 cents . head . day when he had five prisoners or less. from i've to ten prisoners. 40 cents 8 head, over ten prisoners. 20 cents . head.
 MT. John argued against the bill. Under the plea that this Is intended to help sherins of small counties, Mir. John said. this bill would be wasting g the public money. It did not require that much money to feed prisoners. he argued.
 The sheriff would get s12o a month to feed ten men. he said, and every man in the house knew 1t could be done for less than that. He was inter- rupted by many questions.
 MT. Sample said he was in favor of giving the sheriff sufficient money to feed the prisoners. His sherin, he said. had told him he had lost money feeding the prisoners. and he knew his sheriff was an honest man. The bill would not affect Jefferson County, he said, but 1t would great many other sheriffs in the State.
 Speaker Carmichael relinquished the Cn0lr 10 MT F}ttS Oi OdiAoe anu Spoho in favor of the bill. The sheriff of his county, he said. had told him he could not feed the prisoners under his charge on the present allowance. It matte-ed not to him. the Speaker said. how the prisoners were fed in other counties. but he was willing to take the tesu- mony of the sheriff of his county 80 far as feeding the prisoners under his care was concerned.
 There was an amendment to the SUD, stitute that made the scale of prices for less than nve prisoners, 50 cents a day., i've and less than twenty-five. 70 cents a day; more than twenty-five. 30 cents a day.
 Mir. Glover spoke in favor of this. and said he was convinced the scale of prices was a fair and just one. The substitute as amended was adopted and passed the House-yeas. 54: nays. 23.
 day afternoon 1t caused lively discus sion. some of the members accusing the Senator of bad faith.
 The bill provided that all counties whether they had dispensarfes or not could by one-fourth of the voting pop ulation making known their wishes tt the Probate Judge. cause genera election to be held on the question as to whether the sale and manufacture of intoxicating liquors should be pro- hibited.
 During the last session the House passed a local option bill practically the same as this and Senator Merritt caused the Senate to amend 1t so al to require that two years must eiapse before such election could be had IT counties where old dispensaries were established. The House concurred IT this.
 It appears that during the reces. Senator Merritt changed his mind ane caused an amendment to be made du' ring this present session. putting the hill back in it's original form as tho House first passed 1t. This was tho amendment the House was called upoI to act on yesterday and which caused the discussion.
 MT McMillan, of Wilcox. asked thai the House concur in the Senate actioh MT. Foster agreed with him.
 The bill was opposed by MT: Weaver contracts that had been made between dispensaries and water works or suci like plants by municipalities. Ther' were several towns, he said, that hat .o contracted after the bill had gon' through at the last session and t' amend it now would be acting In oa' faith.
 Mr steasall took the floor and In vigorous speech declared the senate amendment should be concurred m The people in all counties had righ tn sct on the question, he said. and no be tied by any previous action or tn'
 The House concurred in the senate'l action. but just prior to adJournmeh at the afternoon session. there was motion to reconsider, ana mo.'o, nai,o1,,ad to table this motion. Just al ,t came adjournment was taken.
 At the night session the questloi wa. re-opened and the motion to re consider was tabled.