The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-24

They only required the examiner to render accounts to the various coun- ties whose books have been examined at their instance at the per diem of s7.so and provided for the collection or the bill.
 The House then adjourned to o'clock p. m.
 Afternoon sessien.
 Senate bill 131. creating g State Board of Veterinary Examiners and regulating the practice of veterinarians In Alabama, was next considered. An amendment of Mir. Smith, of Fillmore. purporting to exempt country horse doctors" from the payment of license and the qualifying examination If they charge nothing for their services.
 MT. Tunstail, of Hale. said the amend ment had taken the sting out of the bill. and as 1t is late in the session ana the bill might pass the Senate In It's or iginai form, he moved to table the Dill. His motion prevailed by a large ma jority.
 The House received next the confer ence report on Senate amendments 10 the municipal code bill. and adopted the report. The report showed that the Senate members had receded from the anenQfnGnt WHIGu fSWCo cities to regulate the street car sched- ules. The House had rejected tnis amendment by a small margin.
 The Senate amendment to the foreign corporation (temperance) Dill was com cured in, exempting drug corporations from it's harsh provisions The piii otherwise forfeits the license or any foreign corporation to do business m the State which violates any or tne xrh frh has in Its charter any right to deal In the pronip- ited liquors of Alabama.
 The House by a vote of AZ to lo adopted the Senate amendment 10 the House bill increasing the appropriation for the Governors contingent fund from s5, 900 to $20.000 for the year or 1910. and after that the fund snail pc t10,0o0 per annum. The s2o.00o, now eyer, Is Go include the costs or print ing the Governors proclamation TOT ,ne election on Constitutional prohibition.
 The House refused to concur in cer- tain Senate amendments to the Aoclai club bill of Mir. Tarranr. These would allow the plaNag of cards, dominoes' pool. etc, in all such clubs without wagers, and exempt their properties from taxation up to s2,0oo when the clubs are organized for on-pecuniary purposes. TnS Reese senate pil tSVt "N~~ eA~--- considered. 1t regulates the hearing or obiections because of multifariousness or misjoinder to bills or petitions m equity. and alters the procedure in such cases
 MT. John, of Jefferson, explained that the bill could not hurt anyone, put might save many people much property by a lawyers slip in practice.
 The bill was lost by tho vote or 70 AGA thirds vote.
 The clerk read a message from the Senate announcing that Senators Spraggins Miller and Thomas had been appointed for :; conference with the House members on the social clun Amendments which failed of adoption in the House. The Speaker appointeo Messfs. John. Scale and Rashton. MT. Jenkins, of Baldwin, had ms Diii called. providing for the incorporation of mutuai cooperative societies TOT farming and trucking purposes. and Tor their exemption from all corporate tax. ation and licenses He explained that the Farmers Union had suggested. the hill and 1t did not contemplate diVI- dend earning associations or corpora tions.
 sTf-fs> to encourage the truck indus try he said. which is yet in. Its in- fancy in Alabama. This Is 10 perihl' associations of farmers without license fax of the State for the purpose Of Ia ciIitating the marketing of the farm ers' products. the buying vf fertilizer etc."
 The bill was passed by the vote oi 4a to 14.
 Mir. stoiianwercl. of Montgomery which would exempt state banks from all municipal license taxes. He ex' pIatned that the national banks were hv law exempt from such taxes, and this put the State banks at disad' vantage unless extended the same priv ilege.
 The motion to take from the table prevailed and the Dill LOOK US piace on the calendar.
 The House concurred in the Senate amendments to the pure food bill. The main change is to eliminate the chiel food clerkship of the Commissioner ol Agriculture and put his work on othei attaches of the office.
 The House passed the Senate Dill tc authorize the sale, lease or disposition of an electric light, gas or waterworks plant owned by any town or city oi municipal corporation in this State. MT. Tunstall, of Hale, predicted thai the bill regulating saaes of stocks oi merchandise in bulk or portions there of otherwise than in the orulnarJ course Of trade. would fail of the re- ouired two- thirds majority. He said inc bill had been threshed out and de- | feated at a previous sessIon. MT. John of Jefferson, and Mir. Rush ton of Crenshaw, supported the bill as well as MT. Haley of Jefferson, and Mr Lee of Etowah. Mir. Sherrod oi Lawrence, opposed the bill.
 It was explained that the bill only ,reouired notice of seven days to credt' tors before any merchants stock Is sold.
 "It is for the protection of the cred itor. and all honest men," said MT Haley. NO honest man Is going to Os hurt by the law
 MT. Cannon of Fayette. and Mir. Mas. tin of Montgomery. opposed the bil! because it was in the interest of whole salers, they hinted, and dfscriminated against certain other classes of trade I where fraudulent sales are made. The discussion of the bill caused such comrnotion that repeatedly the Speaker had to rap for order. The members | both for and against the bill grew ve- hemenf on the subject. Some argued that the bankruptcy law was protection to creditors. in that such sales as are contemplated by the bill would be acts
 of bankruptcy.
 MT. Tunstall. argued that the bill
 would actually hurt the honest man in 1 that at the eleventh hour a sale would be tied up in justice or circuit courts xz