The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-10
TELEGRAPHERS
 BILL KILLED Measure for Examining
 Board Tabled. CAUSED LENGTHY DISCUSSION Increased Pay for Tax Assessors
 Also Fails. House Members Talk Long and Loud On Teasley Bulk Sales Hill, But
 it Goes over to AA Friday. -liGlIE- 

TWO important plIlS were tabled by the House in the first day of the sum mer session. One concerned the ap- pointment of commission to examine all telegraph operators in the State who have to do with the handling of train schedules and the other was an amendment to Section 3963 of the Code of 1906 that sought to give to tax as- sessors of land values a greater com pensation than that which they are now receiving.
 Both bills were the subject of much argument. particularly the first one, 1t being made evident. finally, that the Legislature Is disposed to leave the matter of the ability of telegraph op- orators to the railroads that employ them.
 On the other bill the members from various counties seemed to be of the opinion that 1t would be a mistake to do anything at this time which would | increase the expenses of their respect i've counties, and they promptly tabled | the bill.
 Another bill that caused much dis cussion, and which will come up later | on, is one that affects the sale of stocks of merchandise, and aims to make 1t | necessary that five days notice be giv- | en of all such transactions, for the pro- l lection of creditors. This bill met with much opposition yesterday but there are many interests at work to urge its passage. It will be taken up again Friday. It was decided to hold memorial ser vices upon the death of the late Speak CT William l.. Martin on Thursday evening of this week, at 8 o'clock. When the Legislature met 1t found fairly good representation from the entire State present. They quickly got down to business and some of them nd n hn | message while others took advantage of the occasion to rest up after their long journey and pretended that they | went to sleep Once the message had been disposed of. however. all were in- | tent on the proceedings.
 l. Debate on Bulk Sales BilI. A bill by Senator Teasley occupied most of the attention of the House in It's morning session. This bill Is enti- | tied an act to regulate the sale of stocks of merchandise in bulk or por- tions thereof otherwise than in the or- dinary course of trade. and to punish violations of the same.
 The bill aims to prevent transac-
 tions made between suns in that it pro-
 vided that at least five days notice | of such transactions be given. Argu- ments for and against the bill were \ made by MT. Pitts of Dallas, Mir. Stea- l gall of Dale. and MT. Long of Butler. | Mir. Long took the stand that this was "a vicious measure" He declared that no retail merchant had appeared | to ask that this bill be passed and that it found support only from the | wholesale dealers.
 MT. Steagall. on the other hand. de- | clared that there were 8 number, of | petitions and telegrams from retail dealers. asking that the bill be 1 passed.
 It was finally decided to make the | bill a special order for Fridays session | of the Legislature.
 Of the liquor bills introduced at the morning session, that which Is aimed | at regulating the furnishing of pre- scriptions by physicians for whiskey was the most important. The object | of this bill is to prevent the indiscrim-
 mate giving of prescriptions for whis- key that can be filled at drug stores | on Sunday.
 Ths bill was referred to the commit | tee on judiciary.
 The members of the Legislature | found the House an exceedingly uncom- | fortable place in which to conduct the business of the State even though | some bracket fans had been installed. | The rules were therefore suspended ! long enough to have a resolution | passed requiring that ceiling fans be
 
 gested that there were none in Mont
 gomery that could be had which sug- | gestion immediately brought represen- tatives from Birmingham and Mobile
 to their feet with the statement that If
 Montgomery could not furnish them,
 Birmingham or Mobile could. Captain Peter B. Mastin, of Mont | gomery county, the successor of Speak
 CT Martin, was sworn in during the
 morning session.
 MT. Rushton, of Crenshaw, intro duced a bill providing that the libel laws be changed in order that the | newspapers might be better protected
 than they are at present. This bill went to the judiciary committee Code Committee Reports.
 The code committee made It's report on the codihcation of the laws as pre- pared by J. J. Mayheld. In its re- port the committee took occasion to say that the qualification was as per feet as it was possible to be and that the chief work that they had to do was to see to 1t that the laws so codi- fled did not conflict with the consti- tuition It was declared that the code as prepared Is the best that the State has ever had. The report was re- ceived. and on motion of MT. John 1t was adopted and an order made that 1t be printed.
 At the afternoon session 1t was sneedily made evident that there are hills on the calendar that are not go- ing to become laws. Two of them were tabled almost unanimously. House bill No. 1, was taken up. It fixes the compensation of assessors in making land books and provides that this compensation should be increased acording to the valuation of land values In the county In counties where valuation of taxable property exceeds S1 OoO. 900 and does not exceed $2,O00.- oOo S1OO. in counties whose valuation of taxable property exceeds $2,000.0 900 and does not exceed $2,500, 900. $125: in counties where valuation exceeds S2.- sOo 900 and does not exceed $3.500, ,00O S15O. taxation value of $4.500.000 and not exceeding $5,500. 900. $2O0; excee- ing $5.5OO.OO0, $25O
 Several amendments were offered. MT. Pits of Dallas. argued In favor of the hill He declared that tax assessors ought to receive just compensation for their work, but the bill was finally tabled.
 Telegraphers' Board Tabled.
 House bill No. A. to regulate the employment of railroad telegraphers bv inc establishment of a board Ot telegraph examiners, was taken up.
 An amendment was offered by Mir. Sberrod. of Lawrence, which was adop- fed. If requires that the law take ef- feet, on September 1, instead of May 1, as in the original bill
 MT Haley, of Jefferson, argued