The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-08
GRAY PRESENTED
 WITH LOVING CUP
 BY THE SENATE
CONTINUED FROM FACE ID

ing that it was an attempt to rob the people of his section of their lands, and he said that the rules committee had been parties to the "most diabolical scheme ever perpetrated in the legJsla- ture" by refusing from day to day U report his resolution making a bill on this subject @ special order. MT. Jen- kns speech was roundly cheered. He moved that the resolutions be expnged from the records. but the house refused by a vote of 31 to 2S.
 Hospital Committee.
 The governor returned the bill provid- ing for an investigation of the Insane Hospital with an amendment providing $2. per day as expenses for each mem- Der of the committee. The amendment was concurred in.
 Speaker Carmichael called the bill to erect statute to Jefferson Davis on the capitol grounds and it was passed.
 It was Il o'clock before the house con- scented to a recess to await the final work of the session.
 Mock Session.
 A mock session was proposed and Rom resentative Henley of Escambla was cho : sen speaker The first bill passed was to prevent married men staying out later than D. m. The reading of this bill caused much amusement on the floor and in the gallery.
 Another bill provided for the creation of a state out of the county of Jefferson to be known as Want It All"
 Concluding the Imaginable mock session. MT. Foster of Tuscaloosa on behalf of the members, presented Speaker Carmi- chael with beautiful silver water pitch CT. MT. Foster was very happy in his speech and predicted higher honors for the distinguished young man of Colbert, whom he declared had shown every cou1 tesy and fairness to all the members MT. Carmichael made fitting reply in de- cepting the gift. He referred with ap- propriateness to the conditions which led to his unanimous election speaker after the death of the lamented w. l.. Martin.
 Adjourns at 12:o5.
 MT. Pitts of Dallas presented Clerk Cy- rus B. Brown with beautiful silver lov- ing cup on behalf of the house. and MT Brown replied in an appropriate speech of thanks.
 At 11:56 committee consisting Of Messrs. Williams of Barbour, Pitts of Dallas, Haley of Jefferson. was name l to wait upon the governor and ascertain If he had any further communications to make The committee brought a commu- nleation of congratulation and laudatlon from the governor, and pledgng himself to uphold all the laws enacted
 MT Pitts of Dallas moved that the thanks of the house be extended each officer and page. and it was adopted. ITpon motion of MT Hoffman the house, at 12:03, adjourned sine die.
 House Session.
 The last day of the session of the house was a little slow In getting to- gether and the roll call revealed the presence of a bare quorum. The first business transacted was the passage of a hill amending the code relating to ap- peals from county law and equity courts rlJs was followed by the passage of the Miller bill to further regulate and pro hibit the sale or other disposition of spir ituous or intoxicating liquors or the 's- suing of prescriptions of physicians r the sale or other disposition of sucf quors.
 MT. Kilen called the bill providir the transfer of Confederate per from one class to another, a"
 The Blackmon bill provio.
 taking of the census of the s, dren of the state was passed. MT. Woolf secured the passage bill to validate loans made by towns exceeding two thousand population Mir. Power of Lee called up the bill 1,