The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-30

vides for making game wardens a fire patrol in every county and establishes forestry commission.
 MT. Merritt, to provide for the con- struction, maintenance, improvement and protection of the public roads and bridges of Macon county.
 Bills In the Senate.
 MT. Lowe, to provide that all Confed- crate soldiers. sailors and their widows who are entitled to draw a pension un- der the laws of Alabama shall be en- titled to and receive a pension of the flrst-class when they are or shall become 80 years of age.
 MT. Blackmon. to regulate the right to carry a pistol in this state.
 MT. Strother, to amend sections 241, 2s6, S115, 3213.
 MT. Jones, to authorize cities and towns of this state to convey real or personal property and to make appropriations of money from city funds to aid in the loca- tion and in the construction of high schools and high school buildings and to raitfy and confirm all such conveyances and appropriations whidh have heretofore been made by any such city or town.
 Mir. Reese, to provide for the protec- ton of the forests of Alabama; to estab- fish and create a state commission of forestry to consist of. the governor, q member of the state tax commission, the state game and fish commissioner, the commissioner of agriculture, a member of the United States forest service, the pro- lessor of forestry in the Alabama Poly technlc institute, and one practical lum- herman; to declare the county game and fish wardens, forest wardens; to declare constables, Justices of the peace, sheriffs and deputy sheriffs, ex-officio forest war IL .l .-... 4 of deputy forest wardens by the goyer- nor; to exempt from taxation for period of ten years land which shall be planted in trees; to make 1t unlawful to cut any tree for sawmilling purposes of less than F inches in diameter, or to tap or bcx any tree for the purpose of procuring turpentine of less than 15 inches; to ap- propriate the sum of s500 annually for the purpose of carrying out the pro- visions of this act; to create forAst re- serve fund. and to provide for the pay ment of all fines, forfetures and penal ties arising under the provisions of this act into said fund.-
 House Session.
 A lively incident of the house session was a memorial from the Madison county Law and Order league urging the lesisla- ture to keep on working for prohibition.
 Two more prohibition bills were intro
 
 mittee. large number of other bills were also presented
 The negotiable instruments measure was presented in both houses, in the senate by MT. Glover and in the house by MT. Reese. The house education committee adversed the two compulsory education bills before 1t, one by Mir Fuller and the other by MT. John. These have no connection with the Reynolds bill in the senate. MT. Rice wanted nothing preSentpd after | next Thursday that involved constitu- tional revision, and about the same time resolutions of the states of Oregon and South Dakota. in reference to election of senators by the people, were sent in, hay ing come from Secretary of State Frank N. Julian.
 The dog tax law of Dallas received a favorable report.
 All of the call bills on banking and in- surance were reported favorably and went to the calendar.
 The King Resolution. The resolution of Senator King to ad- journ, defeated in the upper house by a vote of 19 to 10, is given in full text below:
 Whereas, The constitution of the state vests in the governor the discretion to de- termine when such an extraordinary oc- casion exists as in his opinion necessi- tates an extra session of the legislature and,
 Whereas, In the exercise of that dis cretion, the governor has convened the legislature in extraordinary session, and in his proclamation has set forth the sub jects upon which legislation is demanded; and.
 Whereas, after carefully considering and analysing every paragraph of said proclamation and of the message of the governor transmitted to the legislature | that the governor Is in error in assuming that such an extraordinary condition ex- ists as is contemplated by the constitu- tion, and that. therefore. there Is no ads-