The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-23
NO WORK LEFT
 FOR SENATOR'S Several Have Already Left City. THE CALENDAR IS NOW FREE Some Bills Reported for Final
 Actisn Today. At One Time It Looked As If Club House Bill Might Interfere With yAdjournment Sine Die
THE CALENDAR IS NOW FREE

Having disposed of every bill on the | calendar ana having immediately
 pa ssed every amendment offered by tn e | Governor to his railroad bills, the Sem ate is quite ready to carry out its pur- pose and adjourn this afternoon or to- night.
 At one time 1t looked as If the Car michael Club House Bill would inter- fere with the original purpose of the l Legislature to adjourn today, but that was happily disposed of and nothing is in the way of the Senate and the House knocking off today and going l home.
 The members are certainly eager
 enough to get away. number of the Senators have already gone. Several it is understood. left last night. The l Senate today will not have much more I than a quorum of law makers present.
 The Senate yesterday engaged itself l in disposing of all legislative odds and | ends It took the calendar and went | through 1t from one end to the other. | It was absolutely clean when the day l was over.
 l Several bills were favorably reported yesterday and they will come up today | for final passage. But this will not l take much time. Most of the time to- day will be spent in waiting on the clerks and the Governor. The clerks will be busy engrossing and enrolling the bills and all of them must be read by the Governor. In the meanwhile the two Houses will be ready for anything that turns up. But the day begins with all the actual work about accomplished.
 There were only twenty-six Senators present when the morning session be- gan. showing that number of Sena- tors had already returned home.
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 The Senate Committee on Finance and Taxation handed in the House bill to remove all taxes from foreisn money lending corporations, This bill is the final withdrawal of the Legisla- ture and the administration from it's position on the foreign money lend. ing tax.
 It will be-recalled that a number of the members of the Legislature. led by Senator Teasley. made a strenuous fight against the foreign money lend ing tax. but the Governor was for it and the Legislature stuck out for it.
 Between the winter and the July session the tax was subjected to harsh criticism, as bar to the development and prosperity of the State. Several of the companies lending money in the State. The Governor. in several public utterances, supported the tax, even up to the time of the converting of the Legislature in July.
 So strong was public sentiment, how ever, that when the Legislature was in session he agreed to accept a nom- inal tax and agreed to the removal of the heavy tax originally administered. So a graduated tax was put upon the companies. All those that went out, however. failed to come back.
 The repeating bill, which abolishes al taxes on these companies, will un- doubtedly be passed today.
 Supreme Court Clerks Salary.
 The bill amending the new code in the section relating to the salary of the Clerk of the Supreme Court arous- ed a brief but lively discussion. The Clerk of the Supreme Court, until the new code was enacted. received fees as payment for the discharge of his duties.
 When the new code was adopted 1t was found that the system had been changed and that he had been put up- on a salary of $3.600.
 A bill was introduced in the House allowing the clerk certain fees for copying charges and 1t was set forth In support of this measure that it's