The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-20

Hnne Of the most diseases that afflict humanity is epl lensy. which reduces It's victims III vast proportion of cases to such COT dition of helplessness as to make .mn' legitimate charge upon the oe"e'o lence of their fellow men. r.ad
 "All medical authorities are asae that the State should assume the con Y, trol and management of ep!lePtlcs. nte only for the benefit or the uniV, the well sufferers themselves. but TOT 'he WV" being of society as we'll .ba
 Senator McWhorter declared that tns reward for the treatment or ePilep.toS was much greater sann than iaa' Ha said that ahout so per cent of epileptics oeIohs ed to the idopathis or primary class ,n great many of these under proper stitutional r.r treatment coclo ciosed e with a. strong and forceful argument on tns wisdom of establishing an inst.tutiUn n which would recover some or tne u fortunates and make or them ''''e and valuable citizens
 His appeal for the helpless ana @ nes lected class of the states uhlo h. was heard and the Senate passeu saa bill. amended as ne Wantso rasnImtion
 Senator Lusk presented resoiuu,oi editing back from the House the Nun, cipai Code bill which had been paSSSv S't on the previous legislative day' ,he Mun,cipal Code committed. objected to the resolution and the municipal o'ii was not recalled
 Lovelady BilI Is Passed.
 The consideration of the L9re,"an .,, o y hill for Pure Drugs was marked oy a unusual incident, pr. LovebarSc @ of the House but he came over to the oeuaeo while his bill was under consideraiaosn,
 It was suggested that pr LoSeidphs ths as author of the drug 70 9iit; the nroVisions of the bill But Senator tusk opJcsse1. He declared that an address af1r. member of the House would pc ihap propriate and out or place place penresenta- tive Gunter had accepted the inaation ina,i of the Senate to make an expIaha'i"" of the Municipal Code bill c.or
 That's true enough, n sSa Ma in vio- lation of the rules ana against pie dent in the Senate. that Senator Reese took the position tnae @ the appearance Of MT GahaSr nner He was the chairman of the Recess So mittee which prepared the Municipai Code and as such he had done ms worh. both for the House and the eena.e. The bill was opposed by senatol Ieith. He saw in it many restrictlve and unnecessary features: These req lures he attacked and declared that the bill ought not to pass .u, .o Senator Reese advocated the pill so far as it applied to the sale or nor nhine. He told of the ills and injuries done by morphine Incidentally he and Senator Lusk became involved III an argument over the amount or nor phle it would require to Kill man. Senator Gardner of Pike proposed an amendment to the bill. His amend ment proposed to change the requlre- ment of pharmacists who could be em- ployed under the bill. Instead or re- auiring the pharmacists to have two years experience. the amendment pro yided that they should have only one years experience. It was adopted py the Senate.
 Opposition to the bill was manifested in the floor speeches of Senators Ham, ner and Strother. Both of them con- sidered the measure piece of legisla- tion which was so far reaching that it amounted to drastic legislation. Senator Moody advocated the pas sage of the bill. The necessity of such a measure had been impressed upon him.
 Senator Miller saying that he repre- sented a large city constituency. heart fly advocated the measure, He spoke of the evils of the morphine and the cocaine habits. He said that the Leg islature had passed adequate laws re- stricting the sale and use of whiskey but it had never adequately handled the morphine and cocaine question. He considered the evils from morphine quite as baneful as those which came from the use of whiskey.
 The Senate then passed the bill by a vote of 19 to 4.
 Merritt Tempe trance Hill Passes.
 The Merritt bill allowing a vote on the whiskey question in dispensary counties was r"escd with but little dis cussion. The bill simply provided that in all counties where the dispensaries had not been established by the pres- ent Legislature. an election for or against the dis spensary could be held m D1aHiatalv The hill any County in which a dispensary was established at the winter session of the Legisla ture. ..
 In advocating the bill. Senator Mer- ritt frankly admitted that he was re- sponsible for the provision which he was attacking. being in the local op- tiun law. He had fought to have it put there because he had thought his people wanted to keep the dispensary During the recess, he had become con vinced that his people wished to han ish the dispensary at Tuskegee and he was quite willing that they should have an opportunity or voting on the question.
 the same strain of frankness. He had too. sought to protect the integrity of the dispensary when the bill was up at the winter session But change had come over his people. It now appear ed that they wanted to close the dis pensary. He would do all he could to give them the opportunity of voting on the question.
 Senator Reynolds was opposed to the bill because. in his opinion. 1t carried discrimination. It established two classes of dispcnsaries. One of the classes was composed Of the dispensa- rieS which were established during the winter session. and the other was com nrSed of the dispenSaries that were es- tablished before the Legislature met He did not favor any biii characterized by such discrimination.
 The bill was passed and Senator Merritt won his fight.
 To Change Anti-Puss Law.
 During the session, Senator Black mon introduced a bill amending the anti pass bill. It provided that Unit ed States Marshals. Sheriffs and their deputies should be entitled to eide on passes
 Senator Overton presented a bill for bidding child labor in Alabama
 The Hammer insurance bill was pass ed. l This was bill regulating the tssuance of fire insurance in Ala hama It sought to tablish equal lty in the issuance of Alabama policies The bill was opposed and criticized by Senator Spragins. but Senator Hammer stood by his guns ana the bill was passed, It was said to have the en- dorsement of the State Insurance De- partment.
 Before the Senate was ready to ad- journ for the afternoon session. the Secretary was calling the roll and call ing ir vain for some senator to cali up