The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-08
MINORITY REPORT SHOWED
 UNDER BY LEGISLATURE
Substitute Measure Defeated by
 Vote of 70 to 26.
Bursts of Eisqeaencs and oratery Prolonged Thrce Hour. Befers < Actiea i. raken--whits Rls-
 boners Present
 Ia Force.

After three hours of oratory and ar- gument. the House yesterday passed the local option bill in form as de- sired by tho majority of tho commit tee. with the county recognized as fhs unit. Upon final passage, there wsrs but two votes cast against the si1sass ure.
 The great fight on the bill was. oe course. whether the majority bili, with the county as a unit. or the minority substitute with the city and beat as a unit, should be adopted. The House refused. at the close of dozen spseohs es yesterday. besides all those deIiyv cred Wednesday. to adopt the minority report. by vote of twenty-six to sev~ enty.
 The argument that consumed prnrs ficaIiy all the session both wcdnes- day and yesterday. developed no new points in the controversy. The prin cipai arguments against the majority report were delivered by Mir. Pitts of Dallas and Mr. Bloch of Wilcox. while the leading speakers for the county unit Idea were Mir. Lovelady ot def- ferson, and Mir. Carmichael of Colbert while speeches were also delivered up- on that side Of the question by Mf Bulger of TalIapoosa, MT. UrquhMrs of Jefferson, and Mir. Peete of lAsne- stone.
 The House was convulsed with g~N ~ IH<4r flt Mir. Scale of Sumter, for the majort- ty bill, and Mir. smith of Fillmore. gave one of his characteristic speeches ia support of the minority idea. Others speaking in support of the majority report were Messrs. McMillAn Of WILL cox and Ballard of Antangas whiIn Mir. Kornegay made speech in eppnr sition. Beat Unit fs Overwhelmed.
 The vote upon the adoption of the substitute bill proposed by the minorI. ty of the committees. embracing the city and beat unit idea was as fof- lows:
 Ayes--Alford, Baitzer Bloch. Cole man of Isowndes, Goodwin, Guuter Hoffman Hughston. Jenkins. KorHe- gay Lacy of Dallas. Lindsey. bona of Butler. Long of Morgan. Lyons. Maner Norville. Parker. Pitts of Dai- las. Powell of Covineton; Sample. sherrod. Smith of EInore, Thompson White of Perry. woolf--2e.
 Nays--Mr. Speaker. Altman. Arin- strong. Arnold Arr'nrton. Avery. Hal-s lard of Autauga. Ballard of Pike. Benners Benson. Brown. But@er. Rpr- nev Cannon. Carmichael of Clay. Car michael of Colbert. Cooner Cra"snrd. rum, Dudley. Etrod. Foster. Fuller. Hslev, Henley. John. Johnson Janes. KiIlen. King Kirby Lacy of TvAikers TancaEter Lawson. Leo of Ftewah. Tee n% Houston. LovAtady. Mafone. NTiddiAt0n Mitchell Moore. McCrsrw. NeM'lian Oliver. Pearson. Paete. ptttk ot Perry. Powell of BuIiock. Pratt. Price Pugh. Ragsdale. Rainer Rtre. 7owe. Rushton. Sanders. seuford Scale smit&I of Etowsh. Smsth of rrarklin. Smith of Lee Steaeail T,,nstall Turner Urouha-t Yam, Weaver. White of Lamar. wtifiauis--7e.
 Absent or not vatInR--taa rfnn r0le- man of Marshaii. Doyle ot clavISe Doyts of MarenRo. Edwards. Glover rsae of Harbour. McDuHie. Power, Rattray-@ 10.
 As on Wednesday, the gallery was oiled with peoni4 who desi-ed to hear fhA debate. many of fha auditors bssne ladies wearing the white badge of the w. c. r. U. number of the ap- peals of the speaters were directed ta the ocrunants nf tha FalIerv
 Report on Rai'road ATenNuren.
 The session of the House WIS open. ed at 1O;s0 with praver by Hon. w, R. Avery. Representative from Ran- AoInh county. The morning roll call showed oiuetv-nna members in their seats. The Journal was approved with out readIre.
 Dnrine the renorts of standing eoFsi- .,rfttees Chpir=>an Long of the Ccrn- -rIttee nn roTnerce and Common Car -IArs snb.o,tteS q fa fa~a~ahlo renort on three adSifionqt railroad measrres ttat he'd ccyna f-o~l tho Senate. They were the hiIis evinV The nnawirnftrt -ats nn 100 leadin@ articles of fr@iRhtl w-ahIhitfr s the ~eiIrnsds froru char@- 'ng a hieher rate 'hau Hved bv law csy reFusin4 to aecsrt frAight at the 1e- oal rate anA the bill for interchange shIA mileage.
 The Munieirat Organizations Com ,nittee recommended tho passa~e of .ha "G-eater Birrnin gham'' bilIs pro- viding fn- the ne~Fer ot contt~unus towns and the in@ornnrn tion within the prr'ts of incorno~ntod cittes.4
 The Committee nn M'"'0~ and Man nfactures renorted favorahly on the hill bv Smith of FI~1ore to limit workers in cotton mills to ten hours work in one day,
 The pIviIeCe of the floor was srau- tod for the day. on motion of Mr, rIuehston of Tsandsrdale. to Jndge Mitchell and JuSee Porter; on motion of Mir. Ice of Houston. to pr. Rufus N Rhodes of Birm'ngham; and on motion of Sneaker Martin with Bir Foster of Tuscaloosa in the chair. % Hon. Alto V. Ice of Gadsden, father of two members of the House.
 Upon recommendation of the Com mittee on Rules, various bills were made special orders as follows:
 Special order Bulls.
 Senate Bill No. 16, fixing tho maxi- mum rate for the transportation of freight by railroads, for today. after the reports of standing committees.
 House Bill No. 255 making appro- priations for the normal schools oe the State. for today after the disposal of Senate Bill No f6,
 House Bill No. s7I. for the inspec-
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