The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-27
Return of the Amended Bill Causes Some Excitement
 in the House
MR. GRAYS RULING IS
 PROTESTED BY LEITH
Emergency Municipal Bill Is Passed. Governor Signs Bill Giving Two More Judges to the City
 Court of Birmingham.
BY HERVEY w. LAIRD.

BY HERVEY w. LAIRD.
 Montgomery, February 26.-(special.)- l There was a touch of excitement in the
 house tonight when the school appropria-
 tion bill came back from the governor amended reducing the appropriation from S3oo'oOO for next year as passed to SSO0,Ooo.
 The wording of the amendment would have caused the appropriation after next year to be O,O00, and that amount for the balance of the time. Attention was called to this feature. evidently an error by Mr. Tuntstall. and the bill was returned to l the governor for correction.
 Later 1t came back carrying 500, coo next year and 1850, 600 thereafter, and was ac- cepted. These amounts are in excess of the money now appropriated.
 The bills increasing the salary of the 1 judges of the criminal and city courts of Birmingham to s45O0 were passed in tho house; also the bill to increase the pay of l the chancellor of the northwestern chan cery division to that amount.
 Bills repeating the Morrow act and pro- viding for election of the Bessemer judge from the whole county went through the house; also the regulation that an lnspec- 1 tors stamp must be on all miners oil and the measure providing for prohibition in Warrior after the end of this year.
 Representative Thompson introduced a bill to prevent the sale of cigarettes in the state or trading in them in any way. The representatives, from Etowah. being un- abls to agree on a bill for the sale Of whisky. a conference committee or the tive houses was named The house passed the bill to ratify claims of the Walker county courts from March 6, 1903, to June 9, 1905.
 Senate EnIivened. 1 The senate was enliVened today by a protest against the ruling of Lieutenant Governor Gray. which was ordered spread l upon the journal. the paper being signed 1 by Mir. Reese and President Pro Tem l Thomas. though Mr. Leth was the man who suffered from the ruling complained I of.
 Mir Leith made complaint that d reso- i luton he presented some days ago look i ing 10 investigation of an alleged 1 fertilizer trust in the state had not been reported by the rules committee. About ] this time Chairman Gardner of the rules 1 committee sent the resolution to the desk 1 with an adverse report
 Mr. Leith at once moved to take the l IeSOlullOn up' HoiulHS ludl IL uu Hol Ie- l quire a days notice as with bill to l do so. He tried to discuss the motion. The chair ruled. after some little delay 1 that the resolution would have to take | the regular course, that is to go over 1 for a day on notice to take it from the | adverse calendar.
 Mr. Leth appealed from the ruling of | the chair in so construing the rule, and | tie chair refused to put the vote, holding | that Mir. I.eth was out of order in that l. tn, aefa trNsi3 fA of the senate without the senate voting | for it.
 The Protest. Just after the incident Mir. Thomas cons ferred with Mir. Reese and together they drew up protest. alleging that the chair mad usurped power In refusing to put tho appeal from the ruling of the chair and alleging that such practice Is dangerous in free institutions. The protest was, by order of the president of the senate, spread upon the journal and that was all. MT Hammer of Etowah also had a com plaint on the chair. but never got it to q ruling He tried to have the jail in- spection bill amended to make the sal ary $1s00 instead of s240O as the bill car- ried MT. King moved to table the mo- ton. but gave way to Mir. Moody to talk about the bill on it's merits. As soon as Mir. Moody had finished talking he renewed the motion of MT. King to table. Mir. Hammer insisted thar as the mover or the amendment ne nad the right 10 close the argument for 1t. but the chair ruled that the motion to table took precedence and the motion to table carried
 The bill was amended by Mr. Reynolds to include cotton mills as well as jails and aims houses. School for Daphne.
 The senate committee on finance and taxation reported faVorably the bill to establish a normal school at Daphne, giY- ing an appropriation of s250o year.
 Bills passed by the senate included the following: Increasing salaries of judges and chancellors from s250o to s3500; pro- vlding for an inspector of jails. aims houses and cotton mills and to allow five days in which to record d mortgage on personal property. No time is allowed by the present law for personal property, though thirty days are given for realty. The three bills out of which is ex- pected to grow Greater Birmingham were reported fayorably to the senate. One of these is the Smyer bill, providing for exemption from taxes for period of years, another the Miller bill, about the same as the Smyer bill save that there are no exemptions and the third the town merger regulation. All these except the Miller bill have been passed by the house. It is expected that these bills will get to final passage by the end of the week Several Birmingham men were before the committee and urged the bills in order that the city might get busy on spreading out.
 immigration Measure. After lot of speech making the house took up and reconsidered the vote by which the immigration bill was killed few days ago. The motion was made by