The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-08

l lne cQmWIIL68 PEVtItc9 sAtah sth~ ~tts8 v" sessions should begin after the return from the Mardi Gras trip. next We'd nesday. The report was adopted without discussion.
 Mir. Peete of Limestone presented two resolutions to create special or- ders on such days as the Rules Com- mittee nnigit decide. One referred to House Bill No. 2fs. to prohibit the, exhibition of nude pictures except in art galleries and the other to House Bill No 32o, to ediieate the children of Alabama an the evils of intemper- ance, Mir Gunter of Montgomery wanted the immigration bill made a special order Set for tomorrow. All three resolutions were referred to the Rules Committee. On motion of Sneaker Martin. the House ~econsidered the vote bv which House Bill No. TIT revising the mile- age of the Representatives was pass ed Wednesday because of 'sross err rors'' in the bill as passed. The meas ure was recommitted to the Commit tee on Rules.
 Local Option Bill Up.
 The local. option bill, House Bill No. 12S. was then called mp by Chairman Ballard of the Temperance Committee. and the argument on the measure, which was interrupted by adjournment W tuHceudy dItcTuOOus was TScQHlNu. MT. Foster. of Tuscaloosa. presided dur ing the entire debate, Speaker Martin being engaged with other duties.
 MT. Pitts, of Dallas. the first speaker of the day. made an eloquent address m the subject. appealing for support for the city unit. He was personally prohibition man, he said, but lie would never again vote for any prohibition measure, so heinous had been the re- suits of such legislation, as he had observed them in the past He .recfted how one county had behaved under a prohibition law. turning from a quiet orderly community to one where law lessness and disorder reigned.
 He drew a vivid picture of the effe-t as he saw 1t, of intoxicating disrespect of the law among the people He feared the adoption oi the county unit for local option would force a prohibi- ton law upon some communities tha, were not ready for 1t, and would there fore cause disrecpect for the la|. Mir. Peete, of Limestone, replied with an elaborate argument in favor of pro hibition. He told of the fearful effects of intemperance upon people. and made an earnest appeal for the members So pass the law.
 Smith Advocates Dispensary.
 Mir. Smith. of Elmore. was in the Legislature, he said, as an advocate of the dispensary. 4
 MT korn. gay. of Dallas. thought the smaller unit the better, and therefore favored the passage of the substitute measure. @
 Mr. Scale, of Sumter, made u speech in behalf of the majority report. A number of those favoring the minority substitute tired to emoarrass him by interruptions and ql lsIions, but he held his own and convulsed the House by his witty replies. de declared the question was simply whether one was in favor of prohibition or not. lie was In favor of prohibition.
 Mr. Bulger, Jf Taiiapoosa, followed with an address in behalf of the bill that was supported py the good women of the State. He favored the county unit
 MT. McAiillan oi Wilcox referred to the minority bill as a delusion and a fraud. and as a thing of evil in the clothes of righteousness His col league, MT. Bloch, took the other side of the question. He had always been In favor of prohibition, he said, but he took the lview that prohibition laws do not prohibit. If they were enacted blind tigers'' would result
 MT. U~quhart Of Jefferson favored the majority bill, and the County unit. He was confident the forces of prohj- hition would win In the conflict. The whtsxey interests were always organ ized. but he pointed out that a great organization. was behind the forces of temperance. He thought the secret awe, even if it should follow a prohi- hitign law, would be better than the open saloon.
 Loveiady Talks on Measure.
 Mir. Lovelady of Jefferson, the author of the bill, said he did not think the opponents of the measure were can did when they represented there would he nothing but crime under the Coun- fy unit system and no crime at all under the beat unit. He told of the necessity tor the enactment of some such legisla ton, which would enable 6 community which did not desire the sale of liquor to banish the saloon. Without attacking the motives of the advocates of the minority report he declared the whiskey. interests of the State were behind 1t.
 Mir. Carmichael of Colbert made an earnest speech in support of the ma jority report, which was demanded, he said, by the people of the State, led by the good women who for years had been advocating prohibition. He de- clared the greatest benefit of the new Constitution was the liberation of the people from the domination of the sa- IOOu. AC IHc COuSA0SAOA VI SPOCSH. Mir. Carmichael moved the previous question on the minority substitute, and as Mir. Goodwin did not desire to close the argument the vote was taken at once. The substitute was lost on ron call. by a vote of 2s to 70.
 Only Two Oppose BiIi.
 Chairman Ballard then offered Committee substitute to the original bin. embracing all the amendments de- termined upon by the Temperance Committed, ana also some thought ad- visable by the Senate Committee on Temperance, in considering a similar bill He explained in detail the amendments to the bin as printed.
 MT, Mauer, who had supported the city and beat unit measure, declared himself strongly in favor of local op- lion, and pleaded for unanimous pas sage of the local option bill as 1t had been decided upon.
 Mfr. Pitts of Perry. offered an amend ment to provide that no election to dis place a dispensary should be held un- der tho local option law within four years after the passage of the act creating the dispensary It was ta- bled The substitute was then adopt ed in place of the original measure, by c vote of 90 to 0, and the substitute bill passed the House by vote of S1 to ?, Coleman of Lowndes, and Pitts of Dal. las, voting no.
 The measure having been disposed of. the House at 2:20 D. m took a recess