The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-24

Sition to the bill. He declared the Legislature had already gone too far and raising salaries. The bills pass ed included one which had provided for two secretaries of the court in stead of one, and that bill alone had doubled the expense of the office. He contended the Legislature had done enough and that the raise was unwar- ranted. He declared the duties of the office were purely clerical and the Senators knew first class ste- nographer could be employed for s1,500 a year.
 Senator Miller strongly urged the merits of the measure upon his coll leagues. The secretary to the Su- preme Court had had his salary raised when there were only three justices of the court. Since then the court had been doubled. and the work of the work mighat be clerical In it's nature, but 1t was clerical work of the high est order.
 For Supreme Court Secretary.
 Senator Moody was also firm ad- vecate of the bill. It was known the Supreme Court justices were the hard. est worked officials in the State Their work was not only hard. but 1t was most responsible The work could be greatly facilitated by efficient clerical assistance. and he was will ing to support any measure which would increase the efficiency of the court and In part relieve the judges from some of their onerous routine duties.
 Only a few scattering noes were heard when the bill was passing.
 The two bills introduced by Senator overton. but written, 1t is under stood. bv Lieutenant Governor Gray. authorizing municinalities to lew a privileEe tax on express and sieec- ing car companies. came up momentar- iiv. They were up Thursday but Sem ator Thomas mode the point of order that they were bills for bringing in constitution. should originate in the Fouse Notice was given that the bills Had lost their place on the spec- ia1 order calendar. but would be giv- en a place on th" regiIlar calendar. This was taken to indicate that tbe two measures mirht not he passed before the coming of the recess.
 It took the Senate only couple of rntnute to heat the blIl to provide an he paid, the. same salary as the pres ent examiner It seemed the Senate suddenly realized tn L~istaturA hn@ In creased too many safaries. and had es. tahiished too many offices. Al slea~t thts ~oint was made several times in the informal dlscussIon of the biI1. II seened the Senate was overwhelmin~. iy in favor of the defeat, of the bIl. for the motion to indefinitely postpone it was carried with only few oppos- ing votes.
 One of the several hills intended to clothe cities with authority for cer- tain work in lieu of the failure to adopt a general municipal code. came up for few minutes. but the Senate seemed a bit afraid of 1t. This par ticular bil. provided way by which cities eould extend their sanitary and waterworks systems into suburbs which were beyond the city limits The Senate decided to postpone the consideration of the bill until sometime next week.
 Senator Mcwhorter's bill tn estab- fish a State livestock board to stand out Texas fever. and to encourage the stock raising interests of the State. was passed with a few dissenting votes.
 The Senate spent the busiest morn ing session since the Legislature met.
 There were only nineteen members present when the afternoon session be- gan, and for while it looked as though the passage of bills would be delayed hy the lack of a voting quorum. Sew. eral times the roll call had to be re- peated, because less than eighteen Sem ators voted.
 The Senate devoted itself to the pass age of local bills, and beore the after noon was over the calendar had been practically cleared of all such meas ures the Senators wanted to take up. Under the rule allowing each Senator to call up two local bills, only twelve measures were passed at the request of the Senators.
 There was some general interest in the local bill assed by Senator Miller, authorizing the closing of certain streets and alleys in Birmingham. This Is understood to be b'll to assist in the building of the fine passenger depot in Birmingham.
 Record Breaking ApprOpriatfonR.
 As soon as the local bills were dis posed of the Senate went into the pass age Of general measures. and incident ally toward breaking of all records in the matter of appro riat,ons. The even routine of the session was broken to some extent by the passage of the re- ciprocal demurrage bill. When the bill came up Senator Lusk offered an amendment which provided that the conscience of goods must make his de- mand upon the common carrier having hIs nrerchandise in writing. The same am eminent hed been offered in the House by MT. Tunstall. but the House appeared to be afraid of 1t because MT. TunstaN was it's author. Tn +resenting the amendment. Mir. Lusk said It would re@uaite any litigation which might artse out of the bill. and assure the it was not subjected to false and unauthorized claim ID court The amAndrre ent was adopted, and the bill was passed
 In the entire afternoon session only one speech was made. and that was de- IIverad hv Senator Leith In opposition to the hiIl for the University of A'a- ban1a MT. Lusk opposed an amend ment to eIin,irate the SIPS mo called for each year under the bill. and to s~hs''tute an annual approximation of s5A. 900.
 Senator Lelth was amazed at the ex- terqt of the btx anoropria lions that were going thrOugh so easilv. Fe asked what The neorIe wouIH say when thev asoerratued that aIl this money was going tn q few schools in the State .,-tAr, the nrasant leoi~Iature had made such 2 srralI s0~ ror-'at'ou to tho com ,voo schools FTa war1eS his coIIea gues tbAv we've bAer'ro on annronriatfnR and , ,,,o-orr'a.irg ur+ii 'hev wnu'd have rNtht,~ iAFt to -ro~riate He said .te tt,v,e ro,~ht ~o--A when the Iasisia- two --euId he called back to make up %sAc't
 .croor'+ vou tN'1k v we e've . 'i+tIe ,,tstatA trat euoNt to be forgiven % 9 asI,AA Serntor Lrsk.
 The Ieith anAnHment was voted down. and the hiIl was nassed with nrIv ore vote against it, that of sena- tor Leith.