The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-23
Senators and Makers of The
 LaU of The Session of '57- -'56

tried to provide them with something to eat. Among the boys at school. and a boarder at the Smiths was young Keilam (his name may nave been Esau. some called 1t Easy.)
 Esaw was bright boy and always knew his lessons. but all of a sudden he became indolent and behind in his class The teacher reproved him and wanted to know the cause of his dereliction. Esaw replied that goat meat was good for breakfast and might do for dinner, but goat meat for break fast goat meat for dinner and goat meat for supper was too much of a good thing and he was tired of 1t. and could not study. He said Mrs. Smith would often run out of provisions for her boarders. and tell the boys they must run down and kill a goat for breakfast. At that time. Suggsville was overrunning with and had a coll ony of goats. and got the name of goat hill.
 An OId Issue.
 But am -digressing. This is prelim- mary. Dr. Smith had prepared and got the writer to present a petition and bill to the Legislature authorizing him to draw some money from a bank in Georgia. He claimed that he had been a debtor to the old Tombeckbee.
  failed. This bank was chartered In 1918 by the Territorial Legislature. and do not doubt that the old Doctor and all the politicians of those days were liberal patrons. It was evidently wildcat. The Doctor claims that he did owe the defunct bank, but paid the debt, not once or twice. but, by some strange mischange, overpaid. paid three times. He heard that bank In Georgia had some funds to the credit of the defunct bank and his obeot was to get an Act of the Legislature in the nature of power of attorney, to garnishee the Georgia bank. and re- imburse himself for his liberality in paying a debt three times.
 Colonel Bullock, one of the most brilliant public men the State has pro- duced. and withal quite humorist. characterized the Doctor as the admin istrator of the dead bank.
 Colonel Bynum ridiculed the bill by applying the story of the broken bor- rowed pot, which was broken when borrowed, never at all broken.N and mended before returned.
 Dr. Smith might have paid the notes once. possibly twice by mistake. but to have paid the same three times was in- eredulous. The bill was laughed out of court and consigned to the tomb of the Capu1ets. Its sole advocate on the floor was mute. Dumb, like the sheep before the shearer, he opened not his mouth!
 The Mock Sessions.
 Alex Clitherall was a man of infinite jest and humor. and good parliament tartan. Often, before the regular hour of assembling, he would call mock session, either in the hall of the Sem ate or House. for his own and amuse- ment of any others present. by intro duction of ridiculous resolutions and numerous speeches thereon. On one occasion. he presented a bill in behalf of the State of Baldwin. reciting that whereas the county was 490 miles entitled it to be erected into a separ- ate State, and, to two Senators in Con- gress, etc. MT. Joseph Nelson. the Representative from that county, took exception to the proceedings as sluI on his county and complained to me that should have resented 1t. I told him that was not present at the mock session. but that had I been, I would not have been offended, that Mir. c did not intend to ridicu1e by calling fl the State of Baldwin--it was only C little pleasantly on his part (witf which he was brimful, running over) and that so far as was concerned, felt tt q great ,honRF- -t9TEepEssents SC great "a 5teEri itQry,iasThks seemed to sat iisfy his "state%spFtde ande the incident was closed. 3tf
 The State of Baldwin can today make a different showing, In wealth, popu- lations ,intelligeRce and general pro- gresA On another occasion Alex or- ganized mock, Sand James Vest, rep resenting Winston County, was invited to address the august assembly In the interest of his bill to abolish his own county. It was known that MT. Vest was an earnest advocate of the aboli- ton of Winston (recently Hancock) from the map of Alabama and have his territory returned to the counties from which 1t came MT. Vest appeared and spoke with great earnestness in ad- vocacy of self-immolation. He said his county was too poor to sustain itself. to build a court house and jail, and support county officers: that its whole taxes did not amount to as much money as he had drawn from the State treas ury as per diem, and had In his vest pocket Quitting his hand over the pocket.) The amusing part of the per formance was that his vest, to which he called attention, was homespun and homemade. short of cloth. stripes cross ways, unlike father Crimes, run up and down. Colonel Bynum did not covet Winston's return to Lawrence, and Winston County yet remains the same old Winston, Q dark spot on the map.
 Selma, May 20. 1909.