The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-21

requires more persuasive talking to the daily sessions are drfftfng into long-winded arguments. which. if not stopped. as 1t Is proposed to do to- day. will keep the legislators here much longer than the hour they are figuring to adjourn-Saturday next.
 The. measure to create the position Of Commissioner of Pensions. which was fathered Sby Mir. Pitts of Perry met with defeat notwithstanding majority of the members voted for 1t.
 Not being included in the call for the special session, a two-thirdss vote was required for it's passage, and tnls it failed to receive.
 Rev. A. J. Dickinson of Birmingham opened the House with prayer.
 Refuse to. Concur.
 The Senate's amendment to the VII relating to the trial for causes in this State arising in other States caused an early discussion, in the House The Senate amendment requir- cd the striking out of the words po- na fide citizens of Alabama" in the qualifications for bringing suit
 Col. John thought the House should concur Mir. Tunstall objected.
 Mir King said that out of more than forty States in this Union, an able Ju- rist had pointed out that only in Ala baIna and Virginia citizen from an other State could not bring an action for damages in their courts.
 Mir. John withdrew his motion to concur and moved to non-concur and that the house request a conference committee. This was carried. :.
 MT. Johns bill relative to the exam ination of public school teachers had been adversed. He moved to have it taken from the adverse calendar
 The reading of the bill was called for by MT. Lee of Houston, and Mir John had to confess to the House that he had left the bill in another pocket and it was not in the House.
 Discussion on the matter had to therefore be postponed.
 For Temporary Relief.
 Mir. Middleton asked to have bill of his taken from the adverse calen- dar Its purpose Is to prevent the bringing of suits in courts for debt until Jan l.
 He explained that the bill was in- tended to help the farming class of Alabama. It would. he said. tide over the present financial conditions, and he appealed to the patriotism of the members to come to the relief of the farmers in financial distress.
 They were unable to get their money at this time to pay their debts and he wanted to prevent their being com pelied to sell cotton for greatly reduced price in order to raise money to stave off some threatened suit for. debt. 0 sG fThe bill. he declared, would be the means of saving thousands of doi- lars to the farmers.
 MT. Pitts said that the object, no doubt was good. but the Legislature could not do 1t; 1t was against tho Constitution. The House declined to consider it.
 No Extra Tax In Cities.
 Mfr. Crawford obtained permission to call I'D his bill to submit to the people at the election next november an amendment to the Constitution to give to cities and towns the right to levy and collect tax at the rate of one per cent of the value of all subjects of taxation, for the purpose of de- fraying the expenses of the govern ment.
 Mir. Pitts spoke for the bill. Under the Constitution, he said, tax of on- iy five mills could be levied. There was S12,500 to be made up. he said. in Selma, lost to that city and its schools by the prohibition bill.
 The bill was lost, yeas 57, nays 27.