The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-19
LUSK CHARGES THAT RAILROADS WILL
 DEBAlJCH MONTGOMERY ELECTORATE

9pId8 8Anes w C0H R1SS AtA ~.AS. SfAsS on the calendar now"
 Repcrt on school Bills.
 The Senate was called to order by President pro tenn Thomas. The open ing prayer was offered by Rev. MT. Avery of the House. There were thir- ty-one Senators present.
 Senator Reynolds of Bibb introduced bill which seeks to establish system of high schools throughout the state.
 The two Judicial bills of Senator Lusl<, one for the encouragement of the judi ciai circuits uf the State and for the establishment of a Judicial Commission, were favorably reported by the Com mittee on Judiciary. The bills on mo- ton of Senator Lusk were made special orders for Wednesday at ii o'clock.
 The bill to give to Auburn 6 grad uated income running from ss2.ooo to s4o.00o in four years in lieu of the tag tax, was favorsbly reported from the Committee on Finance and Taxation. A favorable report was also made of the bill to appropriate $67.00o for the build ing of rural school houses. The bill however, was so amended that the money is to come out of the tax tag fund.
 The bill increasing tho annual appro- prjation to the common schools by saoo.ooo was called for by Senator Mil Ter.
 T understand there is some uneasi- ness in the House because we have not passed this bill.' said Senator Miller. '.and understand they are holding up some of our important bills until they hear this bill has passed"
 Senator Miller explained that the Committee had so amended the bill that the increased appropriation would not so into effect at once. but would be- come effective at the beginning of the next scholastic year. It was ascertain ed. said Senator Miller. that the funds. If they were available now, would to some extent embarrass the educational machinery which might not be able to distribute them during tLe remainder of 1 the present scholsstic year.
 MT. Gardner was not satisfied with the explanation. His people. he said. wanted the increased appropriation to go into effect at once.
 Harbour Wants Amount Raised. Senator Reynolds declared out of his experience as member of the County Board of Education. that it would be impossible to get the funds provided in the bill into the hands of the district trustees and have them disbursed be- fore the latter part of April or the first Of May. In the meanwhile. practically all the contracts would have been made and most of the schools in the State would have finished their terms. He 0HuSTStQUQ the G4ucALlOn0l authorities favored the appropriation going into ef- feet at the beginning of the next scho-
 iastic year. If it went early not only would the educational machinery of tho State be upset. but 1t would result in no practical benefit to the schools them- selves.
 Senator Barbour spoke in the same strain. But the DeKalb Senator had an amendment to offer. It provided that. beginning with the next scholastic year. the appropriation instead of being $30O.000 as named by the bill should, beginning with next year be $350 900. He had suggested that amendment in the Committee, and so far as he was able to find out. the Committee did not
 oppose 1t. The appropriation, he said, | could be justly made for the $$S00, 900
 that was to be paid out this year. and | could be retained In the treasury as A 1 kind of surplus school fund, from which | the additional s50,000 could bo drawn each year.
 Senator Miller moved the tabiing of i the amendment He said that accord | Ing to his recollection, Senator Barbour
 could not get second for his amend | ment when 1t was offered in Committee 1 The Senate refused to table the amend ment by a vote of 1s to 15. By the 1 same vote Senator Barbour's amend | ment was adopted.
 | s~A kSSA4tVA LAdSAAuOu CAule lOTWATd ] with another amendment. This amend.
 ment provided that the annual appro.
 priation to the public schools should be | S4O0,OOO annual Increase, the same fig.
 ures in the House bill as oriKinalIy passed, but which was reconsider ed
 Senator Lusk moved the tabling of the | Blackmon amendment. This was done l by, the rather close vote of le to I6. ! When this had been done, Senator
 Strother offered an amendment decIar- i Ing the increased appropriation should ! bo $4OO,O00 each year after 1908. But
 the Senate voted down this amendment.
 20 to Il.
 The Senate then passed the bin and Pass Sixty Local Measures. At the afternoon session, the Senate broke the record for both Houses by
 passing sixty bills No such days work
 has been accomplished by either | House before. Perhaps ninety per cent
 of the bills passed were House meas- ures.
 The afternoon was devoted to special
 ly to local bills. Under the rule adopt
 ed. each Senator had the right to 1 call up two local bills The bills were passed rapidly and monotonously. It
 was only necessary for the Senator at
 his proper place in the roll call to in-
 innate he favored his local bill, be-
 fore senatorial courtesy had It's way.
 and the bill was passed.
 There were but two breaks in the
 monotony of the afternoon, and Sen- ! ator LuSk made the objection in each case. He first objected on a consti- l tutional ground to the bill of Senator Reynolds making certain changes in
 the court costs of Bibb county. The
 bill passed notwithstanding the ob- l lection.
 His second objection was on the | Montgomery Court bill, and 1t was fol-
 lowed by the electing incident of his controversy with Senator Teasly.
 The second bill passed on its call by 1 Senator Teasley. was the bil to provide i two janitors for the Montgomery County court house. The industrious
 session of the Senate lasted until after l 6 o'cock