The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-08
BANKHEAD HAS
 SMOOTH SAILING Legislature Will Elect During
 Coming Week
WILL REPEAL LOAN TAX
Legislature May Repeal Foreign Loan Tnx Over Governors Veto Is OpIn- ion of Some of the Legislators
 Now At Capital.

l Montgomery, July 7.-(Special. 1.-The i'm
 pression prevails here that there will
 be no real opposition to the election of
 John II. Bankhead for senator, also that
 by the end of the second legislative day
 of the July session, he will have been
 chosen for the balance of the five years
 and nine months of the term to which
 John T. Morgan was elected last fall, Senator Bankhead Is here, having head
 quarters at the Exchange, where he has been joined by Mrs. Bankhead, who will
 remain until after the election. No one is charged with the senatorial fate of Col. Jesse F. Stallings of Bir-
 mingham and he has not opened any i headquarters so far as known, neither has he followed up his first simple an
 nouncement with a letter 'explaining fur ther' his candidacy. These things being so, members who are here are assuming that the erstwhile congressman from the Second will not push his cause. While there seems not to have been any plans made yet, the idea is that on l Tuesday a joint resolution will be passed to vote at once in each house for senator following which on the next day of work
 will be the election in both houses in joint assembly. In that case, Bankhead should be the elected senator not later than Thursday.
 Senator Bankhead expresses sincere gratitude for the way his case has been
 handled by his friends, saying that he
 has nothing to give out other than that he is very grateful for the generous sup port given him.
 Talk of repeal of the tax on foreign
 money loaned in the state is two-sided. ! Two men close to the governor assert
 that there will be no repeal, one agreeing, however, that the act may be amended to
 meet legal difficulties discovered by the attorney general. Scores of others as- sert, among them some of the strongest men of the assembly, that not only will
 the repeal bill be passed. but passed over
 the veto of the governor if he disap- proves However, the conservative ones do not believe that the bill could be passed over a veto with ease, though It might be accomplished. The attitude of Senator Miller will be governed likely by his course at the time of the passage, when he stood for a nominal tax of one fiftieth of one per cent However, he will likely vote for repeal, if 1t comes up In
 that shape. MT. Miller came in tonight and is busy getting in touch with the situation
 pr. w. II. Blake of Sheffield and other
 members of the Medical society commit tee on tuberculOSiS Saniatrium, are
 here for a meeting Wednesday. There is
 a strong belief that the Bill providing for
 such an institution will be enacted. It is understood that child labor bill will be passed; also that 1t will be in line
 with the law urged by the child labor committee. There Is so much of an im- pression that radical changes have been
 made In the code by the committee that
 it may be necessary to describe them in detail before the members will accept the
 new manuscripts.
 Though the municipal code committee
 reports that 1t has framed an acceptable statute there Is skeptiesm about 1t. It
 Is certain to be pretty well picked over
 before adopion.
 The state game and fish commissioner gives 1t out that he is assured a fish 1 hatchery at Montgomery if the leglsa- ture memorallzes congress to provide it. This the two houses will do on Tuesday. The value of the plant will be about s95,- 000
 Judge D. A. Greene of Birmingham, member of the Masonic home committee, says that a didows and orphans home for
 the state Is assured. the lodges voting overwhelmingly for it.